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Viam Unveils BoxBot, a Box-Opening Robot, at IROS 2026

Viam is set to introduce BoxBot, a robot designed for opening taped cardboard boxes, at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh from September 27 to October 3. This innovative robot arm utilizes image-based visual servoing and a vision-language-action (VLA) model, trained on 125 teleoperated demonstrations collecte...

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