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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 vastly develop the vary of motion. Compared to the earlier arm-centered model, the general impression and stability has utterly modified.
[ Naver Labs ]
It nonetheless wants a whole lot of work, however the six-armed pollinator, Stickbug, can autonomously navigate and pollinate flowers in a greenhouse now.
I believe “wants a whole lot of work” actually means “wants a pair extra arms.”
[ Paper ]
Experience the way forward for robotics as UBTECH’s humanoid robotic integrates with Baidu’s ERNIE by means 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 quite than on land, however watching it transfer, I really feel prefer it’s destined to evolve into one thing slightly extra terrestrial.
[ Paper ] by way of [ HERO Lab ]
Also, in case you are a robotic vacuum proprietor, please, please bear in mind to scrub the poor factor out every so often. Here’s tips on how 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 automobile (Cyclo-UUV) developed on 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 typical screw propellers.
[ AVFL ]
Sony remains to be upgrading Aibo with new options, like the power to take heed to your horrible music and dance alongside.
[ Aibo ]
Operating robots exactly and at excessive speeds has been a long-standing aim of robotics analysis. To allow exact and protected dynamic motions, we introduce a 4 degree-of-freedom (DoF) tendon-driven robotic arm. Tendons enable inserting the actuation on the base to cut back the robotic’s inertia, which we present considerably reduces peak collision forces in comparison with typical motor-driven methods. Pairing our robotic with pneumatic muscular tissues permits producing excessive forces and extremely accelerated motions, whereas benefiting from impression resilience by means of passive compliance.
Rovers on Mars have beforehand been caught in free soils, and turning the wheels dug them deeper, similar to a automobile caught in sand. To keep away from this, Rosalind Franklin has a singular wheel-walking locomotion mode to beat troublesome terrain, in addition to autonomous navigation software program.
[ ESA ]
Cassie is ready to stroll on sand, gravel, and rocks contained in the Robot Playground on the University of Michigan.
Aww, they stopped earlier than they acquired to the enjoyable rocks.
[ Paper ] by way of [ 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 ] by way of [ 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 considerable provide of bodily labor by means of androids that work alongside people. I’ll share a few of the progress 1X has been making in the 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 workforce trains their very own fashions on the information they collect themselves, producing a particularly high-quality “farm-to-table” dataset that can be utilized to be taught extraordinarily succesful behaviors. I’ll additionally share an early preview of the progress we’ve been making in the direction of a generalist “World Model” for humanoid robots.
[ UPenn ]
This Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI Seminar is from Chahat Deep Singh on the University of Maryland, on “Minimal Perception: Enabling Autonomy in Palm-Sized Robots.”
The answer to robotic autonomy lies on the intersection of AI, pc imaginative and prescient, computational imaging, and robotics—leading to minimal robots. This discuss explores the problem of creating a minimal notion framework for tiny robots (lower than 6 inches) utilized in discipline operations equivalent to area inspections in confined areas and robotic pollination. Furthermore, we are going to delve into the realm of selective notion, embodied AI, and the way forward for robotic autonomy within the palm of your palms.
[ UMD ]
