Robotics Walden's robots skipped the legs and went to work at Toyota
Walden Robotics left stealth on Wednesday with $300M and wheeled robots already in production at Toyota. The legs are missing on purpose.
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Robotics Geekplus puts 436 robots to work inside Toyota's plants
Geekplus says 436 of its autonomous mobile robots now run in-plant logistics across multiple Toyota factories in Japan, with labor shortages and trucking rules driving the rollout.
Robotics Toyota's 7-foot-2 Basketball Robot Sank a Free Throw in Front of 8,400 Fans Without a Single Scripted Motion. The Controller Is the News.
At halftime of the April 12 Alvark Tokyo game, Toyota's CUE7 — 7'2", 163 lb, no teleoperation, no motion-capture — stood up, dribbled, and made a free throw. The control stack, quietly disclosed on April 23, is reinforcement learning merged with MPC. That's what every humanoid factory robot needs.