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Ball-Pit Free Fall Robot Decommissioning and Reachy Mini Rapping
Original: Robot Decommissioning By Ball-Pit Free Fall!?! Plus Reachy Mini Raps!
IEEE Spectrum's robotics roundup covers a researcher's unconventional way of retiring a robot: dropping it into a ball pit, alongside a demo of Hugging Face's Reachy Mini desktop robot performing a rap. The two clips highlight both the playful and practical sides of the robotics community this week.
Why now: Clips of robots doing absurd or charming things routinely go viral, and IEEE Spectrum's roundup packages the latest ones.
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