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Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

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Enjoy immediately’s movies!

Brachiation is a dynamic, coordinated swinging maneuver of physique and arms utilized by monkeys and apes to maneuver between branches. As a singular underactuated mode of locomotion, it’s attention-grabbing to check from a robotics perspective since it may broaden the deployment situations for humanoids and animaloids. While a number of brachiating robots of various complexity have been proposed prior to now, this paper presents the only doable prototype of a brachiation robotic, utilizing solely a single actuator and unactuated grippers.

[ AcroMonk ]

A workforce at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robotic referred to as EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). Inspired by a want to descend vents on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and enter the subsurface ocean, this versatile robotic is being developed to autonomously map, traverse, and discover beforehand inaccessible locations on Earth, the Moon, and different worlds in our photo voltaic system.

[ JPL ]

Elythor, an EPFL spin-off, has developed a brand new drone whose wing form can adapt to wind circumstances and flight place in actual time, decreasing the drone’s power consumption. What’s extra, the place of the wings can change, permitting the drone to fly vertically or horizontally. These options make it an ideal candidate for inspecting energy crops.

[ Elythor ] by way of [ EPFL ]

Can robots maintain bodily contact whereas transferring quick? Sure they’ll!

[ Paper ]

Thanks, Maged!

Maciej Stępień writes, “Roomac is a cellular manipulation platform that I used to be in a position to construct for $550. It consists of a differential drive cellular base and a 5-DoF manipulator with a gripper. Software relies on ROS, as a proof-of-concept utility I applied fetching bottle to the person.”

[ Roomac ]

Thanks, Maciej!

Personally, I believe the remake is method higher than the unique on this one.

[ Box Shop ] by way of [ Engadget ]

Watch and take heed to this video from Agility Robotics on notion.

[ Agility ]

From radiotherapy to joint surgical procedure and hair transplants—our KUKA robotic know-how is already being utilized in quite a few medical gadgets.

[ Kuka ]

By combining Gecko’s superior robotics, AI-powered software program platform, and digital twin modeling, ADNOC created a Smart Maintenance Program to rework their security and reliability requirements.

[ Gecko Robotics ]

This video presents outcomes on autonomous exploration of a number of ballast water tank compartments inside an FPSO vessel. To execute the mission, the robotic performs simultaneous localization and mapping, represents the world utilizing voxels thus permitting it to conduct volumetric calculations, plans exploratory paths inside every compartment, and detects and localizes the manholes inside them.

[ ARL ]

Robots nonetheless have loads to study from people in relation to manipulation.

[ Extend Robotics ]

Helping develop the following era of engineers and technicians, volunteers from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, assisted college students competing within the Aerospace Valley Regional Robotics Competition.

If the competitors is senseless to you, that’s regular for FIRST.

[ NASA ]

This video is about Team ORIon’s participation within the 2022 RoboCup held in Bangkok, Thailand. RoboCup is a world robotics competitors that promotes analysis in robotics and AI. Team ORIon, supported by the ORI, the Department of Engineering Science, and personal donors, despatched 9 members to compete within the “@Home” home customary platform league.