Research
Start with the task and the trial count
A compact reading method for robotics papers that keeps hardware, test conditions, success counts and missing evidence together.
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PAPERS AND EXPERIMENTS
How robots learn and act.
Physical AI, embodied agents and action models. Read the mechanism, the experiment and the limits of the published result.
Guides
Physical AI vs embodied AI
What the two terms mean, where they overlap, and the evidence to ask for behind a robotics claim.
2 min read
Guides
How robots learn
Imitation learning, reinforcement learning and simulation explained through ALOHA and a robotic hand experiment.
3 min read
Research
From images to robot actions
How RT-2 and OpenVLA turn images and instructions into robot actions, and what their results do not establish.
3 min read
Research conference / 2026
Finding the 2026 programme and papers
Find the official IROS 2026 dates, programme access and journal-presentation policy, with the distinction between a paper date and a conference session.
Pittsburgh, United States
Research conference / 2025
Two humanoid papers from IROS 2025
Locate two IROS 2025 humanoid papers, identify their hardware and separate a biped walking experiment from cart-mounted manipulation.
Hangzhou, China