For years, teaching a robot a new job meant one of two slow paths: hand-write the control software, or collect mountains of demonstrations. A UC Berkeley roboticist now says a third path is opening, one where teams of AI agents write the robot's program, rehearse it in simulation and fix it when it fails.
Ken Goldberg, a professor of engineering at Berkeley, and Spencer Huang, director of robotics engineering at NVIDIA, call the approach agentic robotics. Berkeley News described it on Novem...
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Robot Learning
MIT’s FLEX Lets Robots Read Between the Lines of Commands
Tell a robot "don't spill on the laptop" and it will dodge the laptop. Ask a person the same thing and they quietly understand that phones, tablets and anything with a battery are also off limits. On November 9, 2026, MIT News described a system that tries to close that gap: FLEX, a pipeline from MIT and New York University researchers that lets robots read meaning beyond the literal words of a correction.
The work is slated for presentation at the Conference on Robot Learning this month. I...
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Smart Cube: A Novel Bluetooth Enabled Locking System
Do you ever wish you had a smart lock that would protect your belongings in any cabinet, drawer, or closet? Smart Cube is just that—it turns your phone, or rather the Smart Armor App, into a key and can allow a user to keep everything from harmful products (such as kitchen chemicals and medication) to personal documents, secure.
Smart Cube is targeted towards a wide audience, from parents with babies who wish to protect their children from potentially harmful products, to business owners to r...
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Haiku, a tiny little bike assistant.
Haiku is a small detachable device that you need to put on the handlebar of your bike . It uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone and present you all the information you need, starting with directions. You need to put directions on your phone first in order to get them on Haiku’s deported screen. The device tells you when you need to turn with simple arrows.
If you are riding the bike and get a phone call or a message then Haiku has a few color LEDs on the side which blink when you receive a...
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Polaroid PoGo Mobile Printer for instant prints
Revolutionary small portable printer promises instant prints at any time and any place with ease.
The Polaroid PoGo™ Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer is the easiest way to print photos from a camera phone. It transfers images wirelessly from a Bluetooth-enabled camera phone to the mobile printer which prints instantly.
The small portable printer weighs only a few ounces and can fit in the pocket. It uses rechargeable batteries or an AC adapter.
The printer is built around ZINK techn...
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