
Greg Zuro
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Greg Zuro
@softboyled
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Everyone's spinning up 50 agents in parallel. The engineer who built Droid Missions told me the opposite: if you can't produce something large and correct with one, adding more just makes it worse. Parallelization is for gathering live info, not building systems.






Forget the clunky exoskeletons of the past. Researchers just built a wearable Centaur robot that turns you into a high tech quadruped for load carriage walking. 🤖🐎 This wearable bot from Professor Chenglong Fu's team at SUSTech handles the vertical load so your legs don't have to, slashing the metabolic cost of walking by a huge 35%. Instead of a rigid suit attached to your legs, this Centaur acts as a pair of independent limbs that connect to your back via a specialized elastic coupling. Here is why this human-robot quadruped setup is such a massive shift in wearable tech: ➤ High Efficiency: It cuts net metabolic cost by 35% and reduces foot pressure by 52% when carrying a 20kg (approx. 44 lbs) load. ➤ Smart Division of Labor: The human handles the navigation and decisions while the robot handles the weight and provides steady forward thrust. ➤ Total Agility: It can perform figure eight maneuvers in tight 1 meter spaces and navigate stairs, slopes, and rugged outdoor terrain. ➤ Dynamics Decoupling: The coupling stays stiff for fast responses but softens under heavy force to act as a shock absorber for the human wearer. ➤ Lateral Stability: Unlike traditional leg-parallel suits, this setup actually makes the user more stable during heavy hauls by providing extra support. The research published in IJRR shows that the best way to help a human carry heavy loads isn't to wrap them in metal, but to give them a second pair of legs. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #SUSTech #CentaurRobot #Exoskeleton





Very interesting footage from Russians indicating that Ukrainian Forces use laser light beam to fry fiber optic on "waiter" drones. Quite unexpected turn of the warfare, take notes.


















