[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-researchers-teach-humanoid-robots-to-carry-objects-together":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},6579,"researchers-teach-humanoid-robots-to-carry-objects-together","Researchers Teach Humanoid Robots to Carry Objects Together","A new training method lets humanoid robots grip and carry objects together by pinching with both hands, without redesigning the system for each task.","Researchers taught humanoid robots to pick up and carry objects using pinched grips instead of mechanical claws, and to do it as a coordinated team.\n\nThe approach, described in a new arXiv paper, assigns each robot in a team a specific spot to grab on a shared object, then has it hold on by pinching between its two hands rather than using a dedicated gripper attachment. The same control setup covers three different jobs: one robot picking something up alone, multiple robots carrying something together, and one robot handing an object off to another. The researchers found that policies trained only for solo pickup already worked reasonably well in team-lifting scenarios, though training directly on multi-robot tasks improved performance further. They tested the system in simulation across different team sizes and object shapes, then moved the trained controllers onto real humanoid hardware.\n\nMost robots built for moving objects use grippers or claws designed for a narrow set of tasks, and coordinating several robots on one object usually means custom engineering for each new job. A single control scheme that scales from one robot to a team, without redesigning it for pickup versus transport versus handoff, is the kind of unglamorous plumbing that has to work before warehouses or disaster-response teams can deploy humanoid robots for oddly shaped or heavy loads no single machine can lift.\n\nThe hardware demo, per the paper, is lab-scale simulation-to-real transfer - promising groundwork, but a long way from robots hauling a couch up a real staircase.","[\"robotics\",\"humanoid-robots\",\"multi-robot-coordination\",\"ai-research\"]","2026-09-17T04:00:00.000Z","2026-09-18T01:03:53.919Z","2026-09-18T01:04:05.137Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"robotics","humanoid-robots","multi-robot-coordination","ai-research",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2609.17824",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,45,50,55,59,63,68,73,77,82,87,92,97],{"name":38,"slug":24,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",3853,"2026-09-17T08:27:09.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":18},"Security","security",648,{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Policy","policy",338,"2026-09-11T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":18},"Hardware","hardware",154,{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":18},"Science","science",114,{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",99,"2026-09-09T17:27:33.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Software","software",75,"2026-09-10T20:41:21.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":18},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",73,{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Startups","startups",55,"2026-09-09T23:14:29.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Gaming","gaming",43,"2026-09-10T12:18:06.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"General","general",41,"2026-09-08T01:57:23.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]