[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/twitter/lukas_m_ziegler) "A drone or a submarine 🫧 A student just built a drone that flies through the air and swims underwater and it actually works. As part of his Bachelors project Andrei Copaci created a 3D-printed hybrid drone with variable pitch propellers meaning the blades shift mid-flight to adapt between air and water. Just a laptop a printer and a smart idea. The drone is fully custom-coded and transitions seamlessly between flying and swimming. We're entering a new era where curious students can prototype what once took massive funding and R&D efforts"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1946856475197931567) 2025-07-20 08:55:29 UTC 10.6K followers, 2M engagements "De-icing power lines ⚡ I bet you haven't seen a use case for a drone like this During extreme temperatures below -10C this drone protects transmission lines. The DJI drone is capable of removing ice from power lines and preventing power outages. For dislodging the ice buildup it carried a XX kg de-icing stick. 🧊 Rather than climbing icy towers by hand their drone does the job. Despite extremely cold weather it has a special tool to knock off the ice ensuring power stays on without putting anyone at risk"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1947255959396495373) 2025-07-21 11:22:53 UTC 10.6K followers, 29.5K engagements "A new model a new robot to hang clothes 👕 ByteDance unveiled GR-3 a new AI model bridging vision language and action for generalist robotics. Yes that's the Chinese equivalent of Meta. They are now heavily into robotics research. Let's see what's sitting under GR3. So GR-3 is a large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that can follow abstract instructions adapt to unseen environments and objects and perform long-horizon dexterous tasks. Trained with a hybrid recipe of web-scale vision-language data VR-collected human demos and robot trajectories it can be fine-tuned quickly using just"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1947586510758219822) 2025-07-22 09:16:23 UTC 10.5K followers, XXX engagements "Chinese are cooking again 👨🏼🍳 @UnitreeRobotics has just unveiled its newest humanoid robot the R1 priced at a highly competitive $5500 💰 The new R1 weighs just XX kg making it XX kg lighter than the G1. Its powered by a multimodal large language model capable of processing both speech and visual inputs giving it a more natural and interactive interface. This steep price reduction highlights declining manufacturing costs. Would you buy it for X grand 💸"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1948721125258625043) 2025-07-25 12:24:56 UTC 10.6K followers, 15.9K engagements "Mushroom picking robots 🍄🟫 A Canadian ag-tech startup @Mycionics has built a robotic system that aims to bring more innovation into mushroom harvesting. Their setup uses dual-arm gantry robots machine vision and soft-grip tools to pick mushrooms. The system doesn't replace humans entirely but works collaboratively handling repetitive tasks like picking packing and sorting while also scanning each mushroom for real-time analytics. It integrates with existing farm setups and scales easily. Already rolling out in North America with European expansion underway. By improving consistency and"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1948366516191166477) 2025-07-24 12:55:51 UTC 10.6K followers, 23.8K engagements "One Interface. Every Robot. Zero Complexity. 🤖 During automatica I had a chance to see what makes @siemensindustry so special when it comes to robotics. I quickly got my answer. With Siemens' SIMATIC Robot Integrator all robotsregardless of brandcan be controlled through a single unified interface. Using the new SRCI (Standard Robot Command Interface) Siemens gives manufacturers the freedom to choose any robot without compatibility headaches. With Inspekto visual inspection is built inno separate tools or special training needed. It works with robots and PLCs to spot defects and ensure"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945416795055161594) 2025-07-16 09:34:42 UTC 10.6K followers, 1469 engagements "Broccoli harvesting machines 🥦 Yup you read that right. These machines can pick broccolis automatically. Over 2000 heads per hour. Such machines typically use vision systems (now fancy called AI systems hehe) to identify mature broccoli heads ready for harvest. Here Six delta robots working together to make sure that the efficiency is there Huge market for robotics and it's great to see more often that robots are there Farmers you're getting a helping arm or six arms 👩🏼🌾"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945140417546052084) 2025-07-15 15:16:29 UTC 10.6K followers, 174.8K engagements "🚨 BREAKING: @RealSenseai is back and this time its independent. Four years after Intel scaled back its RealSense division the depth-sensing pioneer has officially spun out as a standalone company armed with $50M in Series A funding from Intel Capital MediaTek and others. Now led by Nadav Orbach RealSense is doubling down on robotics and biometrics with 3000 active customers and a presence in over XX% of humanoid robots on the market. Their cameras are used by XX% of robots on the market. A next-gen visual processing systemnot focused on optics but on edge AI intelligence that powers depth"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1947967635024466385) 2025-07-23 10:30:50 UTC 10.6K followers, 2276 engagements "🚨 BREAKING: Last week @geekplusrobot became the worlds first listed company in the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) warehouse sector achieving the largest robotics IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. 🧵 Why it's huge for robotics market"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945085801383010707) 2025-07-15 11:39:27 UTC 10.5K followers, 1823 engagements "Terminator arrived 😳 Disney Research has created a skinless robot that mimics human facial expressions blinking and subtle head movements. This humanoid animatronic bust developed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Illinois and Caltech uses a chest sensor to detect and face people. At the same time its 19-degree freedom system allows for realistic head and eye movements including rapid eye movements known as saccades. The robot's attention engine identifies and responds to nearby stimuli and it even mimics breathing with slight up and down motions. While currently"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945758619464847610) 2025-07-17 08:12:59 UTC 10.6K followers, 1930 engagements "A 3D-printed robotic hand for under $XXX 🤯 @huggingface just made it real. Theyve open-sourced the Amazing Hand a lightweight fully 3D-printable robotic hand with X degrees of freedom no cables and a build cost under XXX. Each of its four fingers is powered by two hobby servos enabling both flexion/extension and abduction/adduction mimicking key motions of the human hand. The design uses rigid bones with soft TPU shells making it both sturdy and safe for handling real-world objects. Thanks to open-source CAD files its easily adaptable for any setup. Need fingertip sensors A fifth finger"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1947693462356168821) 2025-07-22 16:21:22 UTC 10.6K followers, 6265 engagements "One Geek+ robot picks packs and ships faster than XX humans. In X warehouse they run over 2000 bots. For companies like UPS Coupang and Decathlon"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945086201364468218) 2025-07-15 11:41:03 UTC 10.5K followers, XXX engagements "Robotics is no bullshit 💩 I mean it just look at these barn cleaning robots. @LelyHolding Discovery Collector uses clever suction technology to manage manure on farms. Cows are happier and healthier when barns are cleaner producing better milk. In this way farmers can have a more hygienic farm. 🐄 Furthermore it shows us how much agriculture can be automated and how farms and barns can benefit from the robotics progress. Using robotics in farming promotes sustainability and a better future for everyone. It's amazing how smart machines like these can handle tough jobs and make farming much"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1938952396807303583) 2025-06-28 13:27:30 UTC 10.5K followers, 175.2K engagements "Hamster-powered robot 🐹 A robot that looks like a hamster ball and can fly over obstacles on its own. Revolute Robotics created a machine called the Hybrid Mobility Robot. I had a chance to meet their team in Boston earlier this year. Two special rings allow this robot to roll in any direction and whirl like a helicopter. A lightweight exoskeleton absorbs shock during landing and prevents vibrations from damaging electronics. Typically the HMR rolls on the ground but can also fly to overcome obstacles or climb steep inclines. This robot can go places that humans might not be able to reach"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1946163487396315330) 2025-07-18 11:01:48 UTC 10.6K followers, 18.4K engagements "Robot swapping batteries on its own 🔋 @UBTECHRobotics just gave humanoid robots the power to work non-stop literally. The Chinese robotics firm has unveiled a world-first: a fully autonomous hot-swappable battery system for humanoid robots. Their latest model Walker S2 can now replace its own battery without human help in under three minutes using dual-arm precision advanced positioning and adaptive algorithms. That means robots can now work 24/7 with zero downtime. Beyond just swapping the system lets robots choose between charging or swapping depending on task urgency enabling real-time"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1945891865426846184) 2025-07-17 17:02:28 UTC 10.6K followers, 5038 engagements "AI craves form and robots are ready to deliver. We have been building them for decades: industrial arms drones AMRs quadrupeds. The real challenge today isnt building robots its making them autonomous adaptable and ready to scale. Curious how robotics is reshaping work I teamed up with XX experts to explore whats driving adoption in this report: So why now Demographics are shifting fast. In Europe the average woman has XXX children well below the XXX needed to sustain population and labour supply. At the same time younger generations are looking for different career paths which means"  [@lukas_m_ziegler](/creator/x/lukas_m_ziegler) on [X](/post/tweet/1947553004065788195) 2025-07-22 07:03:14 UTC 10.6K followers, 2565 engagements
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@lukas_m_ziegler
"A drone or a submarine 🫧 A student just built a drone that flies through the air and swims underwater and it actually works. As part of his Bachelors project Andrei Copaci created a 3D-printed hybrid drone with variable pitch propellers meaning the blades shift mid-flight to adapt between air and water. Just a laptop a printer and a smart idea. The drone is fully custom-coded and transitions seamlessly between flying and swimming. We're entering a new era where curious students can prototype what once took massive funding and R&D efforts"
@lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-20 08:55:29 UTC 10.6K followers, 2M engagements
"De-icing power lines ⚡ I bet you haven't seen a use case for a drone like this During extreme temperatures below -10C this drone protects transmission lines. The DJI drone is capable of removing ice from power lines and preventing power outages. For dislodging the ice buildup it carried a XX kg de-icing stick. 🧊 Rather than climbing icy towers by hand their drone does the job. Despite extremely cold weather it has a special tool to knock off the ice ensuring power stays on without putting anyone at risk" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-21 11:22:53 UTC 10.6K followers, 29.5K engagements
"A new model a new robot to hang clothes 👕 ByteDance unveiled GR-3 a new AI model bridging vision language and action for generalist robotics. Yes that's the Chinese equivalent of Meta. They are now heavily into robotics research. Let's see what's sitting under GR3. So GR-3 is a large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that can follow abstract instructions adapt to unseen environments and objects and perform long-horizon dexterous tasks. Trained with a hybrid recipe of web-scale vision-language data VR-collected human demos and robot trajectories it can be fine-tuned quickly using just" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-22 09:16:23 UTC 10.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Chinese are cooking again 👨🏼🍳 @UnitreeRobotics has just unveiled its newest humanoid robot the R1 priced at a highly competitive $5500 💰 The new R1 weighs just XX kg making it XX kg lighter than the G1. Its powered by a multimodal large language model capable of processing both speech and visual inputs giving it a more natural and interactive interface. This steep price reduction highlights declining manufacturing costs. Would you buy it for X grand 💸" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-25 12:24:56 UTC 10.6K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Mushroom picking robots 🍄🟫 A Canadian ag-tech startup @Mycionics has built a robotic system that aims to bring more innovation into mushroom harvesting. Their setup uses dual-arm gantry robots machine vision and soft-grip tools to pick mushrooms. The system doesn't replace humans entirely but works collaboratively handling repetitive tasks like picking packing and sorting while also scanning each mushroom for real-time analytics. It integrates with existing farm setups and scales easily. Already rolling out in North America with European expansion underway. By improving consistency and" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-24 12:55:51 UTC 10.6K followers, 23.8K engagements
"One Interface. Every Robot. Zero Complexity. 🤖 During automatica I had a chance to see what makes @siemensindustry so special when it comes to robotics. I quickly got my answer. With Siemens' SIMATIC Robot Integrator all robotsregardless of brandcan be controlled through a single unified interface. Using the new SRCI (Standard Robot Command Interface) Siemens gives manufacturers the freedom to choose any robot without compatibility headaches. With Inspekto visual inspection is built inno separate tools or special training needed. It works with robots and PLCs to spot defects and ensure" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-16 09:34:42 UTC 10.6K followers, 1469 engagements
"Broccoli harvesting machines 🥦 Yup you read that right. These machines can pick broccolis automatically. Over 2000 heads per hour. Such machines typically use vision systems (now fancy called AI systems hehe) to identify mature broccoli heads ready for harvest. Here Six delta robots working together to make sure that the efficiency is there Huge market for robotics and it's great to see more often that robots are there Farmers you're getting a helping arm or six arms 👩🏼🌾" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-15 15:16:29 UTC 10.6K followers, 174.8K engagements
"🚨 BREAKING: @RealSenseai is back and this time its independent. Four years after Intel scaled back its RealSense division the depth-sensing pioneer has officially spun out as a standalone company armed with $50M in Series A funding from Intel Capital MediaTek and others. Now led by Nadav Orbach RealSense is doubling down on robotics and biometrics with 3000 active customers and a presence in over XX% of humanoid robots on the market. Their cameras are used by XX% of robots on the market. A next-gen visual processing systemnot focused on optics but on edge AI intelligence that powers depth" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-23 10:30:50 UTC 10.6K followers, 2276 engagements
"🚨 BREAKING: Last week @geekplusrobot became the worlds first listed company in the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) warehouse sector achieving the largest robotics IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. 🧵 Why it's huge for robotics market" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-15 11:39:27 UTC 10.5K followers, 1823 engagements
"Terminator arrived 😳 Disney Research has created a skinless robot that mimics human facial expressions blinking and subtle head movements. This humanoid animatronic bust developed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Illinois and Caltech uses a chest sensor to detect and face people. At the same time its 19-degree freedom system allows for realistic head and eye movements including rapid eye movements known as saccades. The robot's attention engine identifies and responds to nearby stimuli and it even mimics breathing with slight up and down motions. While currently" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-17 08:12:59 UTC 10.6K followers, 1930 engagements
"A 3D-printed robotic hand for under $XXX 🤯 @huggingface just made it real. Theyve open-sourced the Amazing Hand a lightweight fully 3D-printable robotic hand with X degrees of freedom no cables and a build cost under XXX. Each of its four fingers is powered by two hobby servos enabling both flexion/extension and abduction/adduction mimicking key motions of the human hand. The design uses rigid bones with soft TPU shells making it both sturdy and safe for handling real-world objects. Thanks to open-source CAD files its easily adaptable for any setup. Need fingertip sensors A fifth finger" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-22 16:21:22 UTC 10.6K followers, 6265 engagements
"One Geek+ robot picks packs and ships faster than XX humans. In X warehouse they run over 2000 bots. For companies like UPS Coupang and Decathlon" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-15 11:41:03 UTC 10.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Robotics is no bullshit 💩 I mean it just look at these barn cleaning robots. @LelyHolding Discovery Collector uses clever suction technology to manage manure on farms. Cows are happier and healthier when barns are cleaner producing better milk. In this way farmers can have a more hygienic farm. 🐄 Furthermore it shows us how much agriculture can be automated and how farms and barns can benefit from the robotics progress. Using robotics in farming promotes sustainability and a better future for everyone. It's amazing how smart machines like these can handle tough jobs and make farming much" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-06-28 13:27:30 UTC 10.5K followers, 175.2K engagements
"Hamster-powered robot 🐹 A robot that looks like a hamster ball and can fly over obstacles on its own. Revolute Robotics created a machine called the Hybrid Mobility Robot. I had a chance to meet their team in Boston earlier this year. Two special rings allow this robot to roll in any direction and whirl like a helicopter. A lightweight exoskeleton absorbs shock during landing and prevents vibrations from damaging electronics. Typically the HMR rolls on the ground but can also fly to overcome obstacles or climb steep inclines. This robot can go places that humans might not be able to reach" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-18 11:01:48 UTC 10.6K followers, 18.4K engagements
"Robot swapping batteries on its own 🔋 @UBTECHRobotics just gave humanoid robots the power to work non-stop literally. The Chinese robotics firm has unveiled a world-first: a fully autonomous hot-swappable battery system for humanoid robots. Their latest model Walker S2 can now replace its own battery without human help in under three minutes using dual-arm precision advanced positioning and adaptive algorithms. That means robots can now work 24/7 with zero downtime. Beyond just swapping the system lets robots choose between charging or swapping depending on task urgency enabling real-time" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-17 17:02:28 UTC 10.6K followers, 5038 engagements
"AI craves form and robots are ready to deliver. We have been building them for decades: industrial arms drones AMRs quadrupeds. The real challenge today isnt building robots its making them autonomous adaptable and ready to scale. Curious how robotics is reshaping work I teamed up with XX experts to explore whats driving adoption in this report: So why now Demographics are shifting fast. In Europe the average woman has XXX children well below the XXX needed to sustain population and labour supply. At the same time younger generations are looking for different career paths which means" @lukas_m_ziegler on X 2025-07-22 07:03:14 UTC 10.6K followers, 2565 engagements