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Enjoy at the moment’s movies!
USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are instructing dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and different difficult planetary surfaces in analysis funded by NASA.
[ USC ]
AMBIDEX is a revolutionary robotic that’s quick, light-weight, and able to human-like manipulation. We have added a sensor head and the torso and the waist to drastically increase the vary of motion. Compared to the earlier arm-centered model, the general impression and steadiness has fully modified.
[ Naver Labs ]
It nonetheless wants lots of work, however the six-armed pollinator, Stickbug, can autonomously navigate and pollinate flowers in a greenhouse now.
I believe “needs a lot of work” actually means “needs a couple more arms.”
[ Paper ]
Experience the way forward for robotics as UBTECH’s humanoid robotic integrates with Baidu’s ERNIE by way of AppBuilder! Witness robots [that] perceive language and autonomously carry out duties like folding garments and object sorting.
[ UBTECH ]
I do know the fins on this robotic are for strolling underwater relatively than on land, however watching it transfer, I really feel prefer it’s destined to evolve into one thing somewhat extra terrestrial.
[ Paper ] through [ HERO Lab ]
Also, if you’re a robotic vacuum proprietor, please, please keep in mind to scrub the poor factor out now and again. Here’s methods to do it with a Roomba:
[ iRobot ]
The video demonstrates the wave-basin testing of a 43 kg (95 lb) amphibious cycloidal propeller unmanned underwater car (Cyclo-UUV) developed at the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory, Texas A&M University. The use of cyclo-propellers permits for 360 diploma thrust vectoring for extra sturdy dynamic controllability in comparison with UUVs with standard screw propellers.
[ AVFL ]
Sony remains to be upgrading Aibo with new options, like the capability to take heed to your horrible music and dance alongside.
[ Aibo ]
Operating robots exactly and at excessive speeds has been a long-standing objective of robotics analysis. To allow exact and protected dynamic motions, we introduce a 4 degree-of-freedom (DoF) tendon-driven robotic arm. Tendons permit inserting the actuation at the base to cut back the robotic’s inertia, which we present considerably reduces peak collision forces in comparison with standard motor-driven methods. Pairing our robotic with pneumatic muscle mass permits producing excessive forces and extremely accelerated motions, whereas benefiting from affect resilience by way of passive compliance.
[ Max Planck Institute ]
Rovers on Mars have beforehand been caught in free soils, and turning the wheels dug them deeper, similar to a automotive caught in sand. To keep away from this, Rosalind Franklin has a singular wheel-walking locomotion mode to beat tough terrain, in addition to autonomous navigation software program.
[ ESA ]
Cassie is ready to stroll on sand, gravel, and rocks inside the Robot Playground at the University of Michigan.
Aww, they stopped earlier than they acquired to the enjoyable rocks.
[ Paper ] through [ Michigan Robotics ]
Not unhealthy for 2016, proper?
[ Namiki Lab ]
MOMO has discovered the Bam Yang Gang dance strikes with its hand dexterity. 🙂 By analyzing 2D dance movies, we extract detailed hand skeleton knowledge, permitting us to recreate the strikes in 3D utilizing a hand mannequin. With this info, MOMO replicates the dance motions with its arm and hand joints.
[ RILAB ] through [ KIMLAB ]
This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is from Eric Jang at 1X Technologies, on “Data Engines for Humanoid Robots.”
1X’s mission is to create an ample provide of bodily labor by way of androids that work alongside people. I’ll share a few of the progress 1X has been making in direction of general-purpose cellular manipulation. We have scaled up the variety of duties our androids can do by combining an end-to-end studying technique with a no-code system so as to add new robotic capabilities. Our Android Operations crew trains their very own fashions on the knowledge they collect themselves, producing a particularly high-quality “farm-to-table” dataset that can be utilized to study extraordinarily succesful behaviors. I’ll additionally share an early preview of the progress we’ve been making in direction of a generalist “World Model” for humanoid robots.
[ UPenn ]
This Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI Seminar is from Chahat Deep Singh at the University of Maryland, on “Minimal Perception: Enabling Autonomy in Palm-Sized Robots.”
The resolution to robotic autonomy lies at the intersection of AI, laptop imaginative and prescient, computational imaging, and robotics—leading to minimal robots. This speak explores the problem of growing a minimal notion framework for tiny robots (lower than 6 inches) utilized in area operations comparable to area inspections in confined areas and robotic pollination. Furthermore, we’ll delve into the realm of selective notion, embodied AI, and the way forward for robotic autonomy in the palm of your fingers.
[ UMD ]