Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally submit a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
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London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 May 2025, LONDON
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2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON
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ETH Robotics Summer School: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
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IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
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IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Enjoy in the present day’s movies!
Throughout the course of the previous yr, LEVA has been designed from the bottom up as a novel robotic to move payloads. Although the usage of robotics is widespread in logistics, few options supply the potential to effectively transport payloads each in managed and unstructured environments. Four-legged robots are perfect for navigating any surroundings a human can, but few have the options to autonomously transfer payloads. This is the place LEVA shines. By combining each wheels (a method of locomotion ideally suited to quick and exact movement on flat surfaces) and legs (that are excellent for traversing any terrain that people can), LEVA strikes a steadiness that makes it extremely versatile.
[ LEVA ]
You’ve in all probability heard about this humanoid robotic half-marathon in China, as a result of it obtained numerous media consideration, which I presume was the objective. And for these of us who keep in mind when Asimo working was an enormous deal, marathon working continues to be spectacular in some sense. It’s simply arduous to attach that to those robots doing something sensible, you understand?
[ NBC ]
A robotic navigating an outside surroundings with no prior information of the house should depend on its native sensing to understand its environment and plan. This can come within the type of an area metric map or native coverage with some mounted horizon. Beyond that, there’s a fog of unknown house marked with some mounted price. In this work, we make a key commentary that long-range navigation solely necessitates figuring out good frontier instructions for planning as an alternative of full-map information. To this finish, we suggest the Long Range Navigator (LRN), which learns an intermediate affordance illustration mapping high-dimensional digital camera pictures to inexpensive frontiers for planning, and then optimizing for optimum alignment with the specified objective. Through in depth off-road experiments on Spot and a Big Vehicle, we discover that augmenting current navigation stacks with LRN reduces human interventions at check time and results in quicker resolution making indicating the relevance of LRN.
[ LRN ]
Goby is a compact, succesful, programmable, and low-cost robotic that allows you to uncover miniature worlds from its tiny perspective.
On Kickstarter now, for an absurdly low-cost US $80.
[ Kickstarter ]
Thanks, Rich!
HEBI robots demonstrated inchworm mobility throughout the Innovation Faire of the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks, Andrew!
Happy Easter from Flexiv!
[ Flexiv ]
We are excited to current our proprietary reinforcement studying algorithm, refined by means of in depth simulations and huge coaching information, enabling our full-scale humanoid robotic, Adam, to grasp humanlike locomotion. Unlike model-based gait management, our RL-driven method grants Adam distinctive adaptability. On difficult terrains like uneven surfaces, Adam seamlessly adjusts stride, tempo, and steadiness in actual time, making certain secure, pure motion whereas boosting effectivity and security. The algorithm additionally delivers fluid, sleek movement with easy joint coordination, minimizing mechanical put on, extending operational life, and considerably decreasing power use for enhanced endurance.
[ PNDbotics ]
Inside the GRASP Lab—Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab. Our analysis facilities on management, studying, planning, and evaluation of robots as they work together with the world. Whether a robotic is aiding throughout the dwelling or working in a producing plant, the elemental promise of robotics requires touching and affecting a fancy surroundings in a secure and managed vogue. We are centered on creating computationally tractable and information environment friendly algorithms that allow robots to function each dynamically and safely as they shortly maneuver by means of and work together with their environments.
[ DAIR Lab ]
I’ll by no means perceive why robotics firms really feel the necessity to add the sounds of sick actuators when their robots transfer.
[ Kepler ]
Join Matt Trossen, founding father of Trossen Robotics, on a time-traveling teardown by means of the evolution of our robotic arms! In this deep dive, Matt unboxes the ghosts of robots previous—sharing behind-the-scenes tales, daring design choices, classes realized, and how the trade itself has shifted gears.
[ Trossen ]
This week’s Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMU RI) seminar is a retro version (2008!) from Charlie Kemp, beforehand of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech and now at Hello Robot.
[ CMU RI ]
This week’s precise CMU RI seminar is from a way more trendy model of Charlie Kemp.
When I began in robotics, my objective was to assist robots emulate people. Yet as my lab labored with folks with mobility impairments, my notions of success modified. For assistive purposes, emulation of people is much less essential than ease of use and usefulness. Helping with seemingly easy duties, comparable to scratching an itch or selecting up a dropped object, could make a significant distinction in an individual’s life. Even full autonomy may be undesirable, since actively directing a robotic can present a way of independence and company. Overall, many advantages of robotic help derive from nonhuman facets of robots, comparable to being tireless, immediately controllable, and freed from social traits that may inhibit use.
While technical challenges abound for dwelling robots that try and emulate people, I’ll present proof that human-scale cell manipulators may benefit folks with mobility impairments at dwelling within the close to future. I’ll describe work from my lab and Hello Robot that illustrates alternatives for valued help at dwelling, together with supporting actions of each day residing, main train video games, and strengthening social connections. I will even current latest progress by Hello Robot towards unsupervised, each day in-home use by an individual with extreme mobility impairments.
[ CMU RI ]
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