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Aug 27, 2026

Product

Peg Insertion in MuJoCo, the Classic Contact-Rich Task

Peg-in-hole insertion is a benchmark contact-rich manipulation task. Drift builds a MuJoCo scene where a robot arm aligns and inserts a peg, from one prompt.

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 27, 2026

Research

How DHL Uses Robots Across Its Warehouses?

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 26, 2026

Product

Generating Uneven Terrain for the Spot Robot in MuJoCo

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 25, 2026

Research

This Robot Model Learns a Task After Watching Once

Drift Team·6 min read

Aug 21, 2026

Research

5 Ways Robots Learn Without Being Programmed

Drift Team·6 min read

Aug 19, 2026

Product

Scripting Hand Gestures for the SharpaWave Hand in MuJoCo

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 18, 2026

Research

Why Folding Laundry Is So Hard for Robots?

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 15, 2026

Product

Adding SLAM to a Warehouse Robot With LiDAR in Gazebo

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 14, 2026

Research

5 Robotics Research Labs Pushing the Field Forward

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 12, 2026

Product

Training a Franka Panda to Push a Cube With Reinforcement Learning

Drift Team·7 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Research

Why Robots Practice in Simulation Before the Real World?

Drift Team·4 min read

Aug 8, 2026

Product

Simulating Autonomous Drone Flight With the Skydio X2 in MuJoCo

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 6, 2026

Research

How Robots Are Reshaping 5 Everyday Industries

Drift Team·4 min read

Aug 5, 2026

Product

Building a Bimanual Manipulation Scene With ALOHA in MuJoCo

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 4, 2026

Research

Gemini Robotics 2 and Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots

Drift Team·5 min read

Aug 1, 2026

Product

Building a Kitchen Simulation With the Hello Robot Stretch 3 in MuJoCo

Drift Team·5 min read

Jul 31, 2026

Research

How Warehouse Robots Actually Work?

Drift Team·5 min read
A Franka Panda robot arm placing the third cube onto a tower of stacked cubes in a MuJoCo simulation.

Jul 29, 2026

Product

Stacking Three Cubes With a Franka Panda in MuJoCo

Drift Team·6 min read

Jul 28, 2026

Research

The 5 Most Impressive Robot Dogs Right Now

Drift Team·5 min read
A Franka Panda robot arm with a wrist camera showing its live view in a MuJoCo simulation.

Jul 25, 2026

Product

Adding Vision to a Franka Panda Robot in MuJoCo

Drift Team·4 min read

Jul 24, 2026

Research

Why Robot Hands Are So Hard?

Drift Team·8 min read

Jul 22, 2026

Product

Automating Pick and Place With the Franka Panda in MuJoCo

Drift Team·4 min read

Jul 21, 2026

Research

Why NVIDIA Cares So Much About Robots?

Drift Team·4 min read

Jul 18, 2026

Product

Adding an IMU to a Quadruped in MuJoCo

Drift Team·4 min read

Jul 17, 2026

Research

5 AI Models Changing Robotics Right Now

Drift Team·5 min read
A mobile robot navigating a maze autonomously in a MuJoCo simulation

Jul 15, 2026

Product

Watch a Robot Solve a Maze on Its Own in MuJoCo

Drift Team·4 min read
A robot sensing and interacting with objects, illustrating embodied AI

Jul 14, 2026

Research

What Is Embodied AI?

Drift Team·4 min read
A Mars rover navigating rocky terrain autonomously

Jul 11, 2026

Research

How Mars Rovers Drive Themselves?

Drift Team·4 min read
A humanoid robot walking, illustrating the challenges of balance and coordination

Jul 10, 2026

Research

Why Humanoid Robots Are Still So Hard to Build?

Drift Team·4 min read
Franka Panda robot arm beside a table with a cube in a MuJoCo pick-and-place scene

Jul 8, 2026

Product

Build a Pick-and-Place Scene in MuJoCo in One Prompt

Drift Team·4 min read
A quadruped robot walking in a MuJoCo simulation

Jul 7, 2026

Product

Watch a Quadruped Take Its First Steps in MuJoCo

Drift Team·4 min read
A realistic office environment with desks and chairs simulated in MuJoCo

Jul 2, 2026

Product

Build a Realistic Office Environment in MuJoCo in One Prompt

Drift Team·4 min read
Diagram of the five ways robots navigate: wheel odometry, GPS, visual odometry, SLAM, and a Nav2 navigation stack, around a mobile robot

Jun 30, 2026

Research

The 5 Most Common Ways Robots Navigate

Drift Team·5 min read
A four-legged quadruped robot loaded in a MuJoCo simulation

Jun 30, 2026

Product

Build a Quadruped Simulation in MuJoCo in One Prompt

Drift Team·4 min read
A MuJoCo benchmark environment running after a one-prompt install with Drift

Jun 26, 2026

Product

Install MuJoCo and Run Your First Simulation With One Prompt

Drift Team·4 min read
A drone swarm flying in coordinated formation

Jun 24, 2026

Research

Swarm Robotics: Why a Thousand Simple Robots Beat One Smart One

Drift Team·5 min read
A legged robot simulated in the MuJoCo physics engine

Jun 23, 2026

Research

MuJoCo: The Physics Engine Robotics Research Quietly Runs On

Drift Team·5 min read
A soft silicone robotic gripper gently picking up a raw egg

Jun 20, 2026

Research

Soft Robots: Why Some of the Best Machines Are Squishy

Drift Team·5 min read
A comparison of popular robot simulators for ROS 2 including Gazebo, Isaac Sim, and MuJoCo

Jun 17, 2026

Research

Which Robot Simulator Should You Actually Use?

Drift Team·6 min read
A simulated mobile robot with a LiDAR sensor scanning its environment in Gazebo

Jun 15, 2026

Product

I Gave My Robot a LiDAR With One Prompt. Now It Can See

Drift Team·5 min read
A robot vacuum, robotic arm, self-driving car, drone, vending machine, elevator, and smart speaker side by side

Jun 12, 2026

Research

What Even Is a Robot? (It's Messier Than You Think)

Drift Team·4 min read
AI agent inspecting the LeRobot codebase from Hugging Face and mapping its folder structure

Jun 11, 2026

Product

I Used an AI Agent to Explain the LeRobot Codebase (Hugging Face Robotics)

Drift Team·4 min read
Differential drive mobile robot running in a Gazebo simulation built in ROS 2 from a single prompt

Jun 10, 2026

Product

Building a Mobile Robot Simulation in ROS 2 From a Single Prompt

Drift Team·5 min read