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  • What Makes an sEMG Band Good for Dexterous Decoding?

    A signal-quality survey of eight surface-EMG devices, ranked by how much usable signal they hand the decoder for finger-level control — from the emg2tendon bench.

    7 min read   ·   July 09, 2026

    2026   ·   neural-interfaces   dexterous-manipulation   robotics   hardware   ·   research

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  • SantaBot: Instruction-Following Manipulation at the LeRobot Hackathon

    A festive tabletop pick-and-place robot for the AMD × LeRobot 2025 hackathon — comparing an ACT behavior-cloning baseline against an instruction-conditioned VLA on real manipulation data.

    5 min read   ·   December 06, 2025

    2025   ·   robotics   imitation-learning   dexterous-manipulation   vla   vlm   additive-and-subtractive-manufacturing   ·   experiments

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  • Detecting Hail Damage on Rooftops

    Building a dataset and training YOLO models to automatically detect hail damage on roof shingles from drone imagery.

    6 min read   ·   October 09, 2025

    2025   ·   aerial-imagery   computer-vision   ·   research

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  • Bringing MyoSuite to MJX for GPU-Accelerated Musculoskeletal RL

    Building an MJX (MuJoCo-XLA / JAX) backend for MyoSuite to enable GPU-accelerated, massively parallel simulation and large-scale RL of muscle-driven dexterous control.

    2 min read   ·   August 20, 2025

    2025   ·   robotics   simulation   reinforcement-learning   ·   experiments

  • emg2tendon: From Muscle Signals to Tendon Control for Dexterous Hands

    Independent research (RSS 2025) mapping surface EMG to tendon control forces for musculoskeletal robotic hands — a new dataset of 193 subjects and a diffusion-based regression model.

    2 min read   ·   June 15, 2025

    2025   ·   robotics   neural-interfaces   dexterous-manipulation   deep-learning   ·   research

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