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Alexander Koch released the first open-source robot arm integrated with Hugging Face's LeRobot platform, and announced Tau's humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour.
The article notes that when changing robot arms, adapter mismatches are often misattributed to policy failures, and suggests that Claude Opus 4.8 can draft adapters while LingBot-VLA 2.0 focuses on policy integrity.
The article discusses the shift from reactive to prediction-based robot control, highlighted by the LingBot-VA 2.0 model which can keep up with fast-moving objects like an air-hockey puck and learn from few demonstrations.
The AM-ARM200 is a new open-source robotic arm with 6+1 degrees of freedom, 1kg payload, and 52cm reach, available for a $240 BOM, extending the SO-ARM100 philosophy to a more capable class.
At the Physical AI Hackathon, a team built a 'Panda Master' using a modified ReachyMini robot that speaks via GPT, while an Agilex Robotics arm draws fortunes in real-time.
The author gave their OpenClaw AI agent a physical robot arm, successfully configuring it to grab objects and train another AI model, demonstrating that AI can simplify robotics control.