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Weekly Robotics #382: Open-source FPGA robot arm controller, quadruped solving Rubik's Cube, and Eka Robotics' $150 million Series A

Excessive Overkill reverse-engineered an open-source FPGA controller for a 3,000-pound robot arm. ETH Robotic Systems Lab taught a quadruped to solve a giant Rubik's Cube, building toward state-of-the-art perception and localization, fine pedipulation, and environmental interaction capabilities. Eka Robotics closed a $150 million Series A to expand its vision-force-action (VFA) model and customer deployments, saying its robots can complete about 1,500 operations per hour.

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