Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
ICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH
Enjoy immediately’s movies!
In this work, we current LocoMan, a dexterous quadrupedal robotic with a novel morphology to carry out versatile manipulation in numerous constrained environments. By equipping a Unitree Go1 robotic with two low-cost and light-weight modular 3-DoF loco-manipulators on its entrance calves, LocoMan leverages the mixed mobility and performance of the legs and grippers for advanced manipulation duties that require exact 6D positioning of the tip effector in a large workspace.
[ CMU ]
Thanks, Changyi!
Object manipulation has been extensively studied within the context of fixed-base and cellular manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots permits for a singular mix of object manipulation by means of locomotion, known as loco-manipulation. In this paper, we current an optimization strategy to fixing the loco-manipulation downside based mostly on nonimpulsive implicit-contact path planning for our snake robotic COBRA.
Okay, however the place that costume has eyes isn’t the place Spot has eyes, so the Spot within the costume can’t see, proper? And now I’m skeptical of the authenticity of the mutual snoot-boop.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Here’s some video of Field AI’s robots working in comparatively advanced and unstructured environments with out prior maps. Make positive to learn our article from this week for particulars!
[ Field AI ]
Is it simply me, or is it form of wild that researchers are actually publishing papers evaluating their humanoid controller to the “producer’s” humanoid controller? It’s like humanoids are a commodity now or one thing.
[ OSU ]
I, too, am packing armor for ICRA.
[ Pollen Robotics ]
Honey Badger 4.0 is our newest robotic platform, created particularly for traversing hostile environments and troublesome terrains. Equipped with a number of cameras and sensors, it’s going to ensure that no defect is omitted throughout inspection.
[ MAB Robotics ]
Thanks, Jakub!
Have an automation job that requires the precision and torque of an industrial robotic arm…however you want one thing that’s extra rugged or a nonconventional kind issue? Meet the HEBI Robotics H-Series Actuator! With 9x the torque of our X-Series and seamless compatibility with the HEBI ecosystem for robotic growth, the H-Series opens a brand new world of potentialities for robots.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks, Dave!
This is how all spills occur at my home too: tremendous passive-aggressively.
[ 1X ]
EPFL’s workforce, led by Ph.D. pupil Milad Shafiee together with coauthors Guillaume Bellegarda and BioRobotics Lab head Auke Ijspeert, have educated a four-legged robotic utilizing deep-reinforcement studying to navigate difficult terrain, attaining a milestone in each robotics and biology.
[ EPFL ]
At Agility, we make robots which can be made for work. Our robotic Digit works alongside us in areas designed for individuals. Digit handles the tedious and repetitive duties meant for a machine, permitting corporations and their individuals to concentrate on the work that requires the human factor.
[ Agility ]
With a wealth of unbelievable figures and excellent information, right here’s Jan Jonsson, ABB Robotics veteran, sharing his information and fervour for a few of our robots and controllers from the previous.
[ ABB ]
[ Electric Sheep ]
The AI Index, presently in its seventh yr, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes information referring to synthetic intelligence. The Index supplies unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced information for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and most people to develop a deeper understanding of the advanced subject of AI. Led by a steering committee of influential AI thought leaders, the Index is the world’s most complete report on developments in AI. In this seminar, HAI Research Manager Nestor Maslej provides highlights from the 2024 report, explaining developments associated to analysis and growth, technical efficiency, technical AI ethics, the financial system, schooling, coverage and governance, variety, and public opinion.
[ Stanford HAI ]
This week’s CMU Robotics Institute seminar, from Dieter Fox at Nvidia and the University of Washington, is “Where’s RobotGPT?”
In this discuss, I’ll focus on approaches to producing giant datasets for coaching robot-manipulation capabilities, with a concentrate on the function simulation can play on this context. I’ll present a few of our prior work, the place we demonstrated sturdy sim-to-real switch of manipulation abilities educated in simulation, after which current a path towards producing large-scale demonstration units that might assist practice sturdy, open-world robot-manipulation fashions.
[ CMU ]
