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IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
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Unitree B2: past the restrict. Maximum pace of 6m/s, sustained load of 40kg and sustained strolling endurance of 5h. The complete efficiency is 2 to 3 occasions that of current quadruped robots worldwide! Adaptable to all terrains, giant load, long-lasting endurance, and tremendous athletic efficiency! Evolve, evolve, and evolve once more!
[ Unitree ]
This shape-changing robotic simply obtained rather a lot smaller. In a brand new research, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robotic that may passively change its form to squeeze via slender gaps in a number of instructions. It weighs lower than a gram however can assist over thrice its physique weight as a further payload.
[ CU Boulder ]
Researchers at CMU used fossil proof to engineer a tender robotic duplicate of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed practically 450 million years in the past and is believed to be certainly one of the first echinoderms able to motion utilizing a muscular stem.
[ CMU ]
Stretch has moved over 1,000,000 buyer bins in below a yr, enhancing predictability and stopping accidents. But how did we get there? Discover how we put our experience in robotics analysis to make use of designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robotic. Starting from the technological constructing blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, energy, and intelligence to automate the business’s hardest challenges.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
What do the robots do on Halloween after everybody leaves? Join the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating journey. Happy Halloween!
[ Queens University ]
Thanks Josh!
FreeLander is a flexible, modular legged-robot {hardware} platform with adaptive bio-inspired neural management. The robotic platform can be utilized to assemble totally different bio-inspired legged robots. Each module of the platform consists of two legs designed to perform as a two-legged robotic, which is ready to stroll on a metallic pipe utilizing electromagnetic ft. Multiple modules will be mixed to acquire six-legged and eight-legged robots to stroll on tough terrains, akin to tough terrain, slopes, random stepfield, gravel, grass, and even in-pipe.
[ VISTEC ]
Thanks Poramate!
Energy Robotics hopes you had a Happy Halloween!
[ Energy Robotics ]
This work presents a digicam mannequin for refractive media akin to water and its utility in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The mannequin is self-calibrating in real-time and is freed from identified correspondences or calibration targets.
[ ARL ]
Humans naturally exploit haptic suggestions throughout contact-rich duties like loading a dishwasher or stocking a bookshelf. Current robotic methods give attention to avoiding sudden contact, usually counting on strategically positioned surroundings sensors. In this paper we prepare a contact-exploiting manipulation coverage in simulation for the contact-rich family activity of loading plates right into a slotted holder, which transfers with none fine-tuning to the actual robotic.
[ Paper ]
Thanks Samarth!
Presented herewith is one other PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) add-on system engineered to reinforce the functionalities of the quadrupedal robotic, Boston Dynamics Spot. The system adeptly integrates two PAPRAS items onto the Spot, drawing inspiration from the mythological creature Orthrus—a two-headed canine in Greek mythology.
[ KIMLAB ]
Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD pupil and Early Stages Researcher (ESR) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose present analysis focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing tender supplies for industrial functions. Her Master’s thesis was ‘UAV anti-stealth technology for safe operation’. She labored as a Research Engineer at Inria, Lille nord Europe, Research Scholar at Tartu Institute of Technology and a lecturer with the Mechatronics and Industrial Robotics Programme at Minia University, Egypt. Eldiwiny hosts the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast the place researchers from each Academia and Industry focus on latest developments in the Soft Robotics analysis subject.
[ SMART ITN ]
3 labs. Different robotic options of the future. Meet CSAIL’s machine associates.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.
Countless science fiction works have set our expectations for small, cell, autonomous robots to be used in a broad vary of functions. The potential to maneuver via extremely dynamic and complicated environments can broaden capabilities in search and rescue operations and security inspection duties. These robots may also kind a various collective to supply extra flexibility than a multifunctional robotic. I’ll current my work on the evaluation of management and energy necessities for this automobile, in addition to outcomes on the integration of onboard sensors. I additionally will focus on latest outcomes that culminate practically twenty years of effort to create an influence autonomous insect-scale automobile. Lastly, I’ll define how this design technique will be readily utilized to different micro and bioinspired autonomous robots.
[ UPenn ]