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Fourier Intelligence has simply introduced the mass manufacturing of their GR-1 humanoid, they usually’ve acquired at the very least a dozen of them.
[ Fourier Intelligence ]
Thanks, Ni Tao!
This collaborative work between researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and VISTEC introduces a biomorphic comfortable robotic pores and skin for a hexapod robotic platform, that includes a central sample generator–primarily based neural controller for producing respiratory-like motions on the pores and skin. The design allows visuo-haptic nonverbal communication between people and robots and improves the robotic’s aesthetics by enhancing its biomorphic qualities.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Mads!
According to information from 2010, round 1.8 million folks within the United States can’t eat on their very own. Yet coaching a robotic to feed folks presents an array of challenges for researchers. A workforce led by researchers on the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm could make to choose up almost any meals attainable by fork. In assessments with this set of actions, the robotic picked up the meals greater than 80 % of the time, which is the person-specified benchmark for in-dwelling use. The small set of actions permits the system to study to choose up new meals throughout one meal.
[ UW ]
Thanks, Stefan!
If you watch sufficient robotic movies, you get to know when a robotic is being pushed in a manner that’s straightforward to get better from, and when it’s really being challenged. The finish of this video reveals IHMC’s Nadia getting pushed sideways in opposition to its planted foot, which necessitates a crossover step restoration.
[ Paper ] through [ IHMC ]
Thanks, Robert!
Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, desires to construct woodpecker-impressed Doc Ock tentacles. And while you’re a professor, you possibly can simply try this.
Also, woodpeckers are bizarre.
[ Ayato Kanada ]
Thanks, Ayato!
Explore Tevel’s joint robotic fruit-harvesting pilot program with Kubota on this video, filmed through the 2023 apple harvest season within the Mazzoni Group’s orchards in Ferrara, Italy. Watch as our autonomous fruit-selecting methods function with precision, skillfully harvesting varied apples within the idyllic Italian orchards.
[ Tevel ]
Understanding what’s an impediment and what’s solely impediment-ish has all the time been tough for robots, however Spot is making some progress right here.
[ EVORA ]
We tried to play Street Fighter 6 by teleoperating Reachy! Well, it didn’t go as deliberate, as Antoine received. But it was a fairly epic combat!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
The key belongings of a knowledge heart are the servers. While most of them are energetic within the server room, idle and new belongings are saved within the IT warehouse. Focusing primarily on this IT warehouse, SeRo automates the inbound and outbound administration of the information heart’s belongings.
[ Naver Labs ]
Humans will be so imply.
[ Flexiv ]
Interesting HRI with the flashing gentle on Spot right here.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Flying in circles with a giant tank of gasoline actually looks like a greater job for a robotic pilot than for a human one.
[ Boeing ]
On 2 November 2023, at an occasion hosted by the Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences at ETH, Professor Davide Scaramuzza offered a complete overview of our newest developments in autonomous drone know-how aimed toward attaining human-degree efficiency.
[ UZH RPG ]