Abstract: Contacts are central to most manipulation tasks as they provide additional dexterity to robots to perform challenging tasks. However, frictional contacts leads to complex complementarity ...

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not ...

It comes amid a growing wave of praise for Claude Code from software developers and startup founders on X, as they ...

franky is a high-level control library for Franka robots, offering Python and C++ support. By providing a high-level control interface, franky eliminates the need for strict real-time programming at 1 ...

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated satisfying general instruction following ability. However, small LLMs with about 7B parameters still struggle fine-grained format following (e.g., ...

Python gives you far more control, and the ecosystem is stacked with libraries that can replace most no-code platforms if you ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

For ages, Ethernet has been the backbone of networking — starting from simple web browsing to cloud computing, data centers, automobiles, and more. Ethernet has enabled countless innovations, and now, ...

Florida’s Burmese python problem isn’t going away anytime soon. The researchers, snake trackers, and other conservationists working to remove the giant snakes will be the first to tell you that ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons, runs from July 11 to 20. The challenge aims to raise public awareness and encourage reporting of python sightings.

When it comes to the invasive and destructive Burmese python in Florida, it's as simple as those two words. Starting Friday (July 11) another step will be taken to reduce the population of these ...

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States Precourt Institute for Energy, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Doerr School of ...