TIER IV Launches DIY Self-Driving Car Kit
TIER IV released a complete autonomous vehicle development kit integrated with Autoware, the open-source autonomous driving software. The kit focuses on research and experimentation for single-person electric vehicles.
Kit Features: - Out-of-the-box Autoware integration - Complete hardware specifications - Educational documentation - Research-friendly licensing - Single-person EV platform
Target Audience: - Researchers - Developers - Educational institutions - AV enthusiasts
Meta's V-JEPA 2: World Model Breakthrough
Meta unveiled V-JEPA 2, a revolutionary world model that learns to understand and predict the physical world simply by watching videos.
This AI predicts abstract representations rather than rendering pixels, enabling more efficient learning of intuitive physics from video observation.
Key Innovation: - Learns physics from video - Predicts abstract representations (not pixels) - More efficient than generative models - Better understanding of physical world
Applications: - Robot planning - Simulation - Predictive control - Reasoning about physics
Community Events & Hackathons
LeRobot Hackathon by Hugging Face
Global hackathon bringing developers together to advance robot learning through collaborative development.
GOSIM AI Paris 2025
Conference videos released covering robotics, AI, and simulation topics.
Technical Demos & Tools
Nav2 Multi-Robot Simulation
Six mobile robots running simultaneously with Nav2, using ROS namespaces to avoid collisions.
Features: - 6 robots coordinated - Nav2 navigation stack - Collision avoidance - ROS namespace management
LeCabot: Open-Source Mobile Manipulator
Combining LeRobot SO-100 arms with Unitree Go2 quadruped dog.
Integration: - Mobile base: Unitree Go2 - Manipulation: LeRobot SO-100 arms - Full open-source - Research platform
Groot2 PRO: Behavior Tree IDE
Advanced IDE for creating behavior trees, with free access until end of RoboCup 2025.