Robotics - IoT Digital Twin PLM

Behavior Trees for Robot Task Planning: A Reference Architecture (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO July 28, 2026Tech1 Comment

Behavior trees for robots explained: ticks, control and leaf nodes, reactivity vs FSMs, blackboards and Nav2/BehaviorTree.CPP - the reference architecture for robot task planning and recovery in 2026.

Self-Driving Lab Architecture: The Closed Loop That Runs Experiments (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO July 12, 2026TechNo Comments

A reference architecture for self-driving labs: the design-make-measure-learn closed loop, orchestration, safety interlocks, and human-in-the-loop control for autonomous experimentation.

Industrial World Models: How Physical AI Is Reshaping Factory Autonomy in 2026

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO July 2, 2026Tech1 Comment

Industrial world models explained: how learned simulators and physical AI give robots and digital twins predictive foresight, and what it means for factory autonomy in 2026.

Isaac Sim vs Gazebo vs MuJoCo: Choosing a Robot Simulator in 2026

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO July 2, 2026Tech2 Comments

Isaac Sim vs Gazebo vs MuJoCo compared for robotics: physics fidelity, GPU parallelism, photorealistic sensors, ROS 2 integration, sim-to-real, and a decision matrix for 2026.

Physical AI on the Factory Floor: The 2026 Inflection

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO June 27, 2026iiotNo Comments

Why physical AI - foundation models for robots and machines - is reaching the factory floor in 2026: VLA models, humanoids, simulation, and the deployment reality.

Zenoh ROS 2 Bridge Tutorial: Hands-On RMW Setup (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO June 24, 2026TechNo Comments

A hands-on tutorial wiring ROS 2 to Eclipse Zenoh: rmw_zenoh setup, the zenoh-bridge-ros2dds, multi-robot routing, and lossless WAN teleoperation.

Isaac Lab Reinforcement Learning: A Robot-Training Tutorial

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO June 19, 2026TechNo Comments

A hands-on 2026 Isaac Lab tutorial for reinforcement learning: environments, the training loop, reward design, sim-to-real transfer, and a working example.

VLA Models Compared: GR00T, Gemini Robotics, Pi0 (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO June 19, 2026Tech4 Comments

A 2026 comparison of vision-language-action (VLA) models: NVIDIA GR00T N1.5, Gemini Robotics, and Pi0 — architecture, on-device fit, and a decision matrix.

Figure 03 and BotQ: Humanoid Mass Production Analyzed

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO June 19, 2026NewsbeatNo Comments

Figure 03 and the BotQ factory analyzed: what ~1 robot/hour really means for humanoid mass production, the supply chain, unit economics, and deployment reality.