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Boston Dynamics puts wheels on Atlas to test its limits
Boston Dynamics has fitted its Atlas humanoid robot with wheels to test how classical motor controls and whole-body reinforcement learning work together under demanding…

Encord releases EMG-1, largest open dataset linking muscle signals to robot AI
Encord, the data infrastructure company for Physical AI, has released EMG-1, which it calls the largest open-source dataset pairing muscle signals with first-person…

Husky and Jackal Robots Feature in Six Research Papers at IROS 2026
Clearpath has published a round-up of research presented at IROS 2026 that used its Husky and Jackal robots, covering topics from orchard disease detection to navigation…

RAI Institute Releases Exploy to Ease Robot Policy Deployment
The RAI Institute has introduced Exploy, an open-source library that exports a reinforcement learning policy together with its full environment logic as one…

AI Firefighter Helmets, Care Robots and Safer Agents: This Week's Data News
An AI-powered augmented-reality helmet for firefighters in Oklahoma City and smart glasses for people with low vision lead the Center for Data Innovation's roundup of…