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Made from fantastically fabricated metal and eight cell arms, medusai can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and transfer in time to a number of human observers. It makes use of AI-driven laptop imaginative and prescient to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly by snake gestures, music, and light-weight.
If this appears slightly bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The mission was designed to discover the ideas of belief and danger within the context of robots, and of utilizing expertise to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] through [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On 19 April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs an important position in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of revolutionary methods for bettering teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel method that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to boost the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Sometimes all it takes is one good punch, after which you’ll be able to simply collapse.
Thanks, Robert!
The new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness by its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Building upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of structure, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes discovered from years of expertise within the discipline to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on web site.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for aiding people, discovering functions in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. Nevertheless, their floating base construction renders them vulnerable to failure in cluttered environments, the place handbook restoration by a human operator might not all the time be possible. In this examine, we suggest a sturdy all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate fast and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Hello Robot and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the University of Washington) can be offered at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I prefer to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
Boxing, drumming, stacking packing containers, and varied different practices…these are the each day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots accumulate real-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR mission goals to develop a flexible and open device equipment for basic robotic capabilities, utilizing deep studying to boost their understanding and decision-making talents. The major goal is to make robots extra clever, notably in crucial areas like well being care, agriculture, and manufacturing. In the well being care setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and assist inside a well being care facility.
[ OpenDR ] through [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck provides a chat entitled “Social robots: The finish of the start or the start of the top?”
Professor Michael Jordan gives his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a wonderful and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]
