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Made from fantastically fabricated metal and eight cell arms, medusai can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and transfer in time to a number of human observers. It makes use of AI-pushed pc imaginative and prescient to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly via snake gestures, music, and light-weight.
If this appears just a little bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The mission was designed to discover the ideas of belief and threat within the context of robots, and of utilizing know-how to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On 19 April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital function in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of progressive methods for bettering teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel method that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to reinforce the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Sometimes all it takes is one good punch, after which you’ll be able to simply collapse.
[ Paper ] by way of [ IHMC ]
Thanks, Robert!
The new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-web site efficiency and productiveness via its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Building upon the success of the primary-era FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of format, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes realized from years of expertise within the subject to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on web site.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a chopping-edge platform for aiding people, discovering purposes in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. Nevertheless, their floating base construction renders them inclined to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator could not all the time be possible. In this research, we suggest a strong all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate fast and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Hello Robot and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the University of Washington) will likely be offered at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I prefer to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
[ Hybrid Robotics Lab ]
Boxing, drumming, stacking bins, and varied different practices…these are the every day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots acquire actual-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR mission goals to develop a flexible and open instrument package for elementary robotic capabilities, utilizing deep studying to reinforce their understanding and determination-making talents. The main goal is to make robots extra clever, notably in essential areas like well being care, agriculture, and manufacturing. In the well being care setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and help inside a well being care facility.
[ OpenDR ] by way of [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck offers a chat entitled “Social robots: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?”
[ Christoph Bartneck ]
Professor Michael Jordan presents his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, an exquisite and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]