Aug 2025 monthly summary for IHMC robotics projects. Focused on delivering geometry fidelity, CPU-first planning, environment configurability, height-map based footstep adjustments, and codebase cleanup to improve reliability and maintainability. Highlights include geometry refinements for the Right Thigh mesh, CPU-only path planning enabling deterministic behavior, configurable environment layouts, height-map driven step adjustments, and removal of legacy components to reduce maintenance burden.

July 2025 monthly work summary for ihmc-open-robotics-software: Delivered key model and control improvements with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and release readiness. The work centers on updating the Alexander robot model to URDF V1, introducing dynamic control parameter calculators, and maintaining CI health during investigations.

June 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering targeted capabilities for Alexander deployment and improving data quality across two IHMC repositories. Key features were implemented with clean version control traceability and set the foundation for easier maintenance and broader rollout.

January 2025 monthly summary for ihmc-open-robotics-software: Delivered two high-impact features that enhance stability, balance, and VR interaction, with clear business value for safer teleoperation and improved operator experience. Key changes include hand contact support in Kinematics ToolBox (KST) enabling locking of end-effectors and enforcement of a feasible center of mass when hands act as point contacts for balance, and VR hand control bindings with visual feedback alongside stabilization of SAKE publisher calls for VR hand state control. Commit references: 43598ab37ed48358a12156fb50f7ba7cef825b5e; 2608aaf2dd8b21de24bcb386da80ce710d2c1d06.