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The strategy of getting Spot to speak with a persona may be very cool, however that is additionally one thing that needs to be performed very rigorously: Spot is a device, and though it might sound prefer it thinks and feels, it completely doesn’t. Just one thing to remember as extra Spots (and different robots) make it out into the wild.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet.
[ Paper ]
This video presents the outstanding capabilities of the TALOS robotic because it demonstrates agile and sturdy strolling utilizing Model Predictive Control (MPC) references despatched to a Whole-Body Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde.
[ PAL Robotics ]
Dr. Hooman Samani from the Creative Robotics Lab on the University of the Arts London writes, “The idea is to show how robots can be beyond traditional use and involve more people in robotics such as artists as we do at our university. So we made this video to show how a co-bot can be used as a DJ and people and robots dance together to the robot DJ in a robot dance party!”
[ London CCI ]
Future robots ought to carry out a number of and varied duties, as a substitute of easy choose-and-place operations. In this video, Dino Robotics demonstrates the functionalities of their software program resolution: it cooks a steak! Bon Appétit!
[ Dino Robotics ]
This video presents a novel perching and tilting aerial robotic for exact and versatile energy-device work on vertical partitions. The system was developed as a part of the AITHON ETH Zürich Bachelor pupil focus challenge and offered at IEEE IROS 2023. It combines a compact built-in perching drone design with a concrete drill’s heavy payload and response forces.
[ Paper ]
This is what very excessive precision, very helpful robotics appears to be like like.
[ Dusty ]
I by no means thought I’d write this sentence, however right here is a few video of a failing robotic mudskipper intercourse doll.
[ Nature ]
Good intention on this drone contemplating that its touchdown pad is dashing alongside at 20 knots.
[ AeroVironment ]
From the folks liable for the enormous gundam in Japan comes this very huge and really gradual rideable quadruped factor.
[ Robotstart ]
RoboCup 2024 shall be in Eindhoven in July!
[ RoboCup ]
A short look into the 2023 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems, which passed off in July 2023 in Prague.
[ CTU ]
Lava caves on Mars and significantly on the moon usually are not solely fascinating for exo-geologists and different area scientists, however in addition they may very well be used as storage rooms and even habitats for future human settlements. The query is the best way to entry and discover these big cavities below the lunar floor with out risking the lives of astronauts. This is the place robots, or relatively groups of robots, come into play.
[ DFKI ]
The rise of latest Foundation fashions (and purposes e.g. ChatGPT) provide an thrilling glimpse into the capabilities of huge deep networks skilled on Internet-scale knowledge. In this speak, I’ll briefly focus on among the classes we’ve discovered whereas scaling actual robotic knowledge assortment, how we’ve been interested by Foundation fashions, and the way we’d bootstrap off of them (and modularity) to make our robots helpful sooner.
[ UPenn ]