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Robotics · INTERVIEWSAGILINK Cuts Dexterous Hand Failure Rate to 0.5% for Industrial Deployment
At AgiBot's Innovation Day on October 29, AGILINK demonstrated a production testing station via a cross-city link, where a dexterous hand used a screw gun to test another unit awaiting factory release. At the company's joint manufacturing base with Wolong in Shaoxing, the robot executes 72 operational steps, including material loading, barcode scanning, clamping, screw tightening, equipment activation, and unloading.
Robotics · ARTICLEAgiBot Proposes 'Worken' Metric to Measure Actual Robot Labor Output
Following the deployment of over 300 robots at Chimelong, AgiBot introduced the "Worken" metric to evaluate actual labor output rather than mere deployment numbers, highlighting the ongoing challenge of scaling on-site engineering support.
Robotics · RESEARCHCarnegie Mellon Researchers Introduce ELEVATE Framework to Help Quadrupeds Acquire New Controllers from Task Failures
Quadruped robots with manipulators face a hard limit when required motions are absent from pre-trained libraries. The new ELEVATE framework enables these robots to autonomously diagnose missing physical capabilities during task failures and train new whole-body controllers using reinforcement learning.
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