Articles
From simulation to physical walking
Follow the model, policy and hardware checks behind sim-to-real locomotion, with a measured OP3 walking study and explicit limits.
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Robotics articles
Choose a physical mechanism, a hardware question, a research method or an event edition.
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Simulation and software
Build a model, inspect its physics, train a controller and measure the gap to a physical robot.
Articles
Use physical logs to refine simulation
Learn what robot logs can identify, how to compare trajectories and how PACE and ASAP use physical data in two different correction methods.
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MuJoCo and a working G1 model
Load a pinned Unitree G1 model, inspect 29 actuators and record a joint response with a Python example executed in MuJoCo 3.15.0.
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Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab
Understand Isaac Sim 6.1, Isaac Lab 3.0 Early Access, current GPU requirements and the source configuration behind a G1 locomotion task.
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Choose a robotics software stack
Compare eight simulation tools by version, operating system, hardware, model format and licence, then place learning and ROS tools in the right layer.
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Articles
Plan a walking policy experiment
Use a pinned MuJoCo Playground G1 task to define observations, actions, rewards and held-out trials, with empty evaluation templates.
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Engineering skills and machine safety
Choose learning resources and understand the scope of product conformity.
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Courses, credentials and practical skills
Compare real robotics learning resources, their costs and credential conditions, then build six projects with observable engineering outputs.
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Safety standards and machine conformity
Understand the scope of five ISO documents, CE marking, the EU machinery transition and the evidence needed to check a robot certification claim.
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Movement, sensing and control
Follow the measurements and commands behind walking, grasping and teleoperation.
Guides
How humanoids walk
Follow one humanoid step from IMU and joint measurements to foot placement, motor commands and recovery, with equations and measured G1 trials.
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Robot fighting and control
How humanoid fighting combines joint motion, balance and contact sensing, with official arena, scoring and safety rules and limits on autonomy claims.
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From camera to contact
Follow object detection, camera calibration, grasp planning, finger actuation and tactile feedback, with measured results and failure cases.
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The person inside the control loop
How VR tracking, gloves, exoskeletons and motion capture drive robot joints, with command rates, network delays, safety limits and learning data.
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From pixels to physical space
How cameras, depth sensing, SLAM and object tracking give humanoid controllers usable geometry, with a documented Atlas example and failure cases.
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Articles
From an instruction to an action
Follow a bottle-to-table task through perception, planning, learned policies, joint control, result checks and stops, using documented research architectures.
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Hardware and purchase decisions
Identify a model revision, read its component list and check what the purchase includes.
Guides
The price beyond the robot
Listed Unitree R1 and G1 prices, development access and the extra costs to include in a hardware quote.
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Guides
What a NEO pre-order includes
What 1X NEO order terms, basic autonomy, Expert Mode and privacy documentation establish for a prospective home buyer.
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Guides
Autonomy is a set of jobs
Separate balance, navigation, manipulation, task planning and recovery using published Atlas and NEO control examples.
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Guides
Battery life, heat and charging
Compare G1, Atlas and Digit 5 battery claims. Learn how heat, charging and task failures affect working time, with a reproducible eight-hour shift calculation.
10 min read
Guides
Optical touch sensing in robot hands
How GelSight and DIGIT use optical tactile sensing, with examples of hidden contacts, small-tool handling and sensor wear.
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Articles
T800 hardware by configuration
Compare T800 variants, joint control, sensors and published specifications, including conflicts between EngineAI's product pages and developer manuals.
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Atlas hardware and factory evidence
Understand electric Atlas hardware, hands, perception, battery swapping and factory training, with historical robots and product specifications kept separate.
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Learning and reading research
Run a first simulation, distinguish learning methods and interpret a paper or recording.
Guides
A robot video is the start of a question
A practical worksheet for identifying the task, control mode, edits and missing attempts in a robot video.
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Research
Start with the task and the trial count
A compact reading method for robotics papers that keeps hardware, test conditions, success counts and missing evidence together.
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Guides
Program one joint first
Start with a small Python and MuJoCo control exercise, then learn where ROS 2 messages fit into a robot software system.
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Guides
Physical AI vs embodied AI
What the two terms mean, where they overlap, and the evidence to ask for behind a robotics claim.
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Guides
How robots learn
Imitation learning, reinforcement learning and simulation explained through ALOHA and a robotic hand experiment.
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Research
From images to robot actions
How RT-2 and OpenVLA turn images and instructions into robot actions, and what their results do not establish.
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Conference and competition records
Find the edition, rules and published results behind an event name.
Competition / 2025
The first Games, task by task
Selected running, sorting and handling results from the first Beijing Games, with the reported control mode and limits of the closing record.
Beijing, China
Competition / 2026
51 events. Different measures of progress.
The 2026 Games combined track events with manipulation tasks. Read the event counts, a reported race result and the limits of each.
Beijing, China
Events / 2025
The 2025 programme and named robots
The 2025 Beijing conference programme, named humanoid exhibits and its distinction from the separate August Games.
Beijing, China
Events / 2026
A launched programme and its open record
What the 2026 Beijing conference launched, who organized the application programme and what its annual target does and does not establish.
Beijing, China
Locomotion / 2025
Reading the first half marathon result
Tiangong Ultra won the 2025 race in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds. Here is what the time tells us and which conditions remain unknown.
Beijing E-Town, China
Locomotion / 2026
50 minutes 26 seconds. Read the rules too.
Lightning won the 2026 race in 50 minutes 26 seconds. The scoring rules explain how autonomy, remote control and support affect comparisons.
Beijing E-Town, China
Research conference / 2025
Two humanoid papers from IROS 2025
Locate two IROS 2025 humanoid papers, identify their hardware and separate a biped walking experiment from cart-mounted manipulation.
Hangzhou, China
Research conference / 2026
Finding the 2026 programme and papers
Find the official IROS 2026 dates, programme access and journal-presentation policy, with the distinction between a paper date and a conference session.
Pittsburgh, United States