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IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
Enjoy in the present day’s movies!
Unitree B2: past the restrict. Maximum velocity of 6m/s, sustained load of 40kg and sustained strolling endurance of 5h. The complete efficiency is 2 to a few instances that of present quadruped robots worldwide! Adaptable to all terrains, massive load, long-lasting endurance, and tremendous athletic efficiency! Evolve, evolve, and evolve once more!
[ Unitree ]
This shape-changing robotic simply obtained so much smaller. In a brand new examine, engineers on the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robotic that may passively change its form to squeeze by means of slim gaps in a number of instructions. It weighs lower than a gram however can help over 3 times its physique weight as a further payload.
[ CU Boulder ]
Researchers at CMU used fossil proof to engineer a delicate robotic duplicate of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed practically 450 million years in the past and is believed to be one of many first echinoderms able to motion utilizing a muscular stem.
[ CMU ]
Stretch has moved over 1,000,000 buyer containers in below a yr, enhancing predictability and stopping accidents. But how did we get there? Discover how we put our experience in robotics analysis to make use of designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robotic. Starting from the technological constructing blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, energy, and intelligence to automate the trade’s hardest challenges.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
What do the robots do on Halloween after everybody leaves? Join the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating journey. Happy Halloween!
Thanks Josh!
FreeLander is a flexible, modular legged-robot {hardware} platform with adaptive bio-inspired neural management. The robotic platform can be utilized to assemble totally different bio-inspired legged robots. Each module of the platform consists of two legs designed to perform as a two-legged robotic, which is ready to stroll on a metallic pipe utilizing electromagnetic ft. Multiple modules may be mixed to acquire six-legged and eight-legged robots to stroll on tough terrains, similar to tough terrain, slopes, random stepfield, gravel, grass, and even in-pipe.
[ VISTEC ]
Thanks Poramate!
Energy Robotics hopes you had a Happy Halloween!
[ Energy Robotics ]
This work presents a digital camera mannequin for refractive media similar to water and its software in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The mannequin is self-calibrating in real-time and is freed from identified correspondences or calibration targets.
[ ARL ]
Humans naturally exploit haptic suggestions throughout contact-rich duties like loading a dishwasher or stocking a bookshelf. Current robotic programs concentrate on avoiding surprising contact, usually counting on strategically positioned surroundings sensors. In this paper we practice a contact-exploiting manipulation coverage in simulation for the contact-rich family activity of loading plates right into a slotted holder, which transfers with none fine-tuning to the true robotic.
[ Paper ]
Thanks Samarth!
Presented herewith is one other PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) add-on system engineered to enhance the functionalities of the quadrupedal robotic, Boston Dynamics Spot. The system adeptly integrates two PAPRAS items onto the Spot, drawing inspiration from the mythological creature Orthrus—a two-headed canine in Greek mythology.
[ KIMLAB ]
Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD scholar and Early Stages Researcher (ESR) on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose present analysis focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing delicate supplies for industrial purposes. Her Master’s thesis was ‘UAV anti-stealth expertise for protected operation’. She labored as a Research Engineer at Inria, Lille nord Europe, Research Scholar at Tartu Institute of Technology and a lecturer with the Mechatronics and Industrial Robotics Programme at Minia University, Egypt. Eldiwiny hosts the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast the place researchers from each Academia and Industry focus on current developments within the Soft Robotics analysis subject.
[ SMART ITN ]
3 labs. Different robotic options of the longer term. Meet CSAIL’s machine buddies.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.
Countless science fiction works have set our expectations for small, cellular, autonomous robots to be used in a broad vary of purposes. The capability to maneuver by means of extremely dynamic and sophisticated environments can increase capabilities in search and rescue operations and security inspection duties. These robots may also type a various collective to supply extra flexibility than a multifunctional robotic. I’ll current my work on the evaluation of management and energy necessities for this automobile, in addition to outcomes on the combination of onboard sensors. I additionally will focus on current outcomes that culminate practically 20 years of effort to create an influence autonomous insect-scale automobile. Lastly, I’ll define how this design technique may be readily utilized to different micro and bioinspired autonomous robots.
[ UPenn ]
