Video Friday: Morphing Adaptive Robots

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Pulling inspiration from the pure world, we now have developed a trio of robots that may morph their our bodies and legs as wanted to raised crawl, shimmy, or swim over tough terrain. These new robotic methods are designed to imitate the best way organic organisms adapt their form relying on their life cycle or surroundings and had been developed by a group from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work is described in a brand new paper printed in Nature Communications, which outlines the three robotic sorts and their completely different skills, together with gripping, climbing, and amphibious journey.

[ Nature ] through [ Adaptive Robotics Lab ]

Thanks, Jianguo!

LimX Dynamics has launched its first wheeled quadruped robotic: W1. W1 is provided with notion and motion-control algorithms, and a number of proprietary high-performing actuators. It combines some great benefits of legged and wheeled constructions multi function, enabling it with highly effective real-time terrain notion and all-terrain mobility.

Pre-orders ought to open earlier than the top of this 12 months.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Robots constructed by engineers on the University of California, San Diego helped obtain a serious breakthrough in understanding how insect flight advanced, described within the 4 October 2023 difficulty of the journal Nature.

[ UCSD ]

Dino Robotics’ cobot demonstrates machine tending, that includes 3D surroundings scanning, bin selecting of offered components with out mechanical fixtures, and force-controlled part-feeding.

[ Dino Robotics ]

This is intelligent: a chameleon-inspired suction gripper that grabs and retracts with none lively sensing in any respect.

[ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ] through [ SNU ]

You ought to most likely not do that along with your lidar.

Somehow, I really feel like I’m getting known as out right here…

[ Norlab ]

Imagine canines effortlessly managing a big selection of things, their versatile mouths permitting them to understand and maintain simply. Inspired by their pure skills, we crafted a robotic gripper. Enhancing our passive-jamming lip and incorporating the ingenious construction of a canine’s tooth, our gripper now possesses the dexterity and precision to deal with objects in day by day life.

[ KIMLAB ]

The potential of Martian lava tubes for useful resource extraction and habitat sheltering highlights the necessity for robots able to endeavor the grueling job of their exploration. Driven by this motivation, on this work we introduce a legged robotic system optimized for leaping within the low gravity of Mars, designed with leg configurations adaptable to each bipedal and quadrupedal methods.