09-11-2026 15:43 via AppleInsider News

How a Mac mini powers a staggeringly capable robot without human training

Apple researchers have revealed how they use a Mac mini to control a Unitree humanoid robot to navigate rooms it has never seen before. It's really quite remarkable.
The robot can see the table and realize it needs to crouch to get under it - image credit: Apple.
Leakers claiming that a future HomeView will have a robot arm didn't envisage anything like this. A team of researchers from Apple has published a paper detailing how they trained a Unitree G1 "humanoid" robot using an M4 Pro Mac mini w
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