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RE: https://mastodon.social/@schuler/116770289338673692

Yet another instance of autonomous software agents speedrunning recapitulation of the autonomous robot development process.

I think we're up to the 90s now - discovering that complexity increases exponentially as you add new behaviors to your system, and that that complexity requires explicit management or the whole thing self-destructs.

Look out for

- "OMG! We should use learning to design the controls!"

and

- the great schism between "we should design the 'skills' to let environmental context create implicit controls" and "we should generate explicit controls from whatever our first principles are".

#AutonomousRobots #Robotics #LLMs #AgenticAI #Speedrun

My Verification of Autonomous Systems book is finally out!

In addition to contributed chapters on theoretical and practical aspects of verifying autonomy*, the editors contributed an introduction on stakeholder perspectives and a chapter on the specific challenges autonomy introduces to verification.

Each chapter is cross-referenced to e challenges it addresses in a handy table to help readers find the information most useful to them.

I'm really proud of all our authors! So many thanks to everyone who contributed^, especially my co-editors, Mae Seto, Don Sofge, and John Sustersic!

E-book now available for download and hard copy coming soon!

* This book is about verifying autonomous embodied robots, not LLMs or AI models.

^ No AI was used in the generation of this book's content.

Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88546-4

#Robotics #AutonomousSystems #Verification #VerificationOfAutonomy #Robots #AutonomousRobots #CyberPhysicalSystems #RobotTesting #FormalMethods #Modeling #Simulation

So instead of just being terrifying killing machines, I guess #AutonomousRobots in the future will emotionally manipulate us as well.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6vSwM1yQ65Q

Ugh - ROS 2 Nav2 Testing (with default planners and critics - just parameter tweaks)

Managing to nav successfully along open paths, but choke points fail then succeed the second ask.

Ah, but the laundry room - robot sometimes needs human assistance. Perhaps "intentional failures to prevent being assigned laundry duty".

#Ros2Nav2 #TurtleBot4 #RaspberryPi5 #AutonomousRobots

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We have a very odd spectacle right now: Anthropic’s CEO has said the US government cannot use Anthropic products if they will not guarantee that they won’t be used for autonomous military robots (firing without human intervention) or mass surveillance. The Pentagon has responded by threatening to eminent domain Claude, and make their own version. The Secretary of “War” has summoned Anthropic’s […]

AI’s data center boom is turning construction into a robotics problem, and DEWALT just proved it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/ai-data-center-construction-robot/

DARPA-Funded Tech Unleashes Robots That Feed on Robots to Heal, Grow, and Evolve

Columbia University Engineers, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have developed a “robot metabolism” process…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Artificialintelligence #autonomousrobots #CA #Canada #ColumbiaUniversity #CreativeMachineLabs #DARPA #Robotmetabolism #self-healing
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/10156/

Goodbye to humans in #warehouses
#Amazon rolls out new #autonomousrobots in the #UK and accelerates full automation
https://unionrayo.com/en/amazon-new-autonomous-robots/

Total Control, Infinite Scalability: Meili Robots Unveils Game-Changing Code License for Fleet Management

#FleetManagement #AutonomousRobots #MeiliRobots #WarehouseAutomation #CodeLicense #AMR #RoboticsIntegration #SmartLogistics #VendorAgnostic #FMS #IndustrialAutomation

Read Full Article here :-
https://www.techi.com/meili-robots-launche-code-license-fleet-management-system/

Cartken Unveils Hauler Robot for Versatile Indoor-Outdoor Material Transport

#Cartken #AutonomousRobots #AIinLogistics #LastMileDelivery #MaterialHandling #IndustrialAutomation

Read Full Article here :-
https://www.techi.com/cartken-hauler-autonomous-robot-material-transport/

H2 Clipper Unveils Ambitious Plan to Deploy Robotic Swarms in Aerospace Manufacturing

#H2Clipper #AerospaceInnovation #AviationManufacturing #Robotics #HydrogenAirships #AutonomousRobots #AerospaceTechnology

https://www.techi.com/h2-clipper-robotics-patent-aerospace-manufacturing/

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