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Nicht so gut fotografierbar, aber: krass windig in #Freiburg gerade.

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Pranav Tiwari, Soumyodipta Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16482 https://

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordinated path following in multi-agent systems is a key challenge in robotics, with applications in automated logistics, surveillance, and collaborative exploration. Traditional formation control techniques often rely on time-parameterized trajectories and path integrals, which can result in synchronization issues and rigid behavior. In this work, we address the problem of sequential path following, where agents maintain fixed spatial separation along a common trajectory, guided by a leader …

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Python Entwickler:in DFG-Projekt Kulinarik (m/w/d)
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It needs repeating time and again—the "clash of cultures" isn't about "differing opinions".
One side wants to treat people respectfully and be welcoming and kind and have a fun time.
The other side wants to remove (deny medical care, disenfranchise, lock away, deport, kill, genocide etc.) people they don't like.
This isn't politics, and when someone claims it is and you take them at their word, you've already lost.

Enhancing the NAO: Extending Capabilities of Legacy Robots for Long-Term Research
Austin Wilson, Sahar Kapasi, Zane Greene, Alexis E. Block
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17760 http…

Enhancing the NAO: Extending Capabilities of Legacy Robots for Long-Term Research
Many research groups face challenges when legacy (unsupported) robotic platforms lose manufacturer support and cannot accommodate modern sensing, speech, and interaction capabilities. We present the Enhanced NAO, a revitalized version of Aldebaran's NAO robot that uses upgraded microphones, RGB-D and thermal cameras, and additional compute resources in a fully self-contained package. This system combines cloud and local models for perception and dialogue, while preserving the NAO's expressive b…

Bengals veteran Wilson addresses benching https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46597458/bengals-defensive-stalwart-logan-wilson-addresses-benching

You really take for granted how much you use your core muscles and such and your legs for getting out of bed and walking until you can't or struggle to. It's nuts

GeCCo - a Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy for Loco-Manipulation Skills on Legged Robots
Vassil Atanassov, Wanming Yu, Siddhant Gangapurwala, James Wilson, Ioannis Havoutis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17582

GeCCo - a Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy for Loco-Manipulation Skills on Legged Robots
Most modern approaches to quadruped locomotion focus on using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to learn policies from scratch, in an end-to-end manner. Such methods often fail to scale, as every new problem or application requires time-consuming and iterative reward definition and tuning. We present Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy (GeCCo) -- a low-level policy trained with Deep Reinforcement Learning that is capable of tracking arbitrary contact points on a quadruped robot. The strength …

It flipped 20m before I arrived at home. Being angry at first that I missed it so close to take a very comforting picture.... I then decided to welcome it as a way to trigger #fediverse‘s #innerMonk . You're welcome

The Surprising Effectiveness of Linear Models for Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control
Arun L. Bishop, Juan Alvarez-Padilla, Sam Schoedel, Ibrahima Sory Sow, Juee Chandrachud, Sheitej Sharma, Will Kraus, Beomyeong Park, Robert J. Griffin, John M. Dolan, Zachary Manchester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17884

The Surprising Effectiveness of Linear Models for Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control
When do locomotion controllers require reasoning about nonlinearities? In this work, we show that a whole-body model-predictive controller using a simple linear time-invariant approximation of the whole-body dynamics is able to execute basic locomotion tasks on complex legged robots. The formulation requires no online nonlinear dynamics evaluations or matrix inversions. We demonstrate walking, disturbance rejection, and even navigation to a goal position without a separate footstep planner on a…