SMRTR Science & EngineeringApr 27, 2026Ars Technica

New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints

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Robots can't currently share skills across different hardware — retraining from scratch is required whenever a robot is swapped out. EPFL researchers developed "Kinematic Intelligence," a non-AI framework that maps each robot's physical danger zones, allowing one human demonstration to teach multiple different robots the same task safely, without retraining.

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