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Legged robots have the potential to change into important in upkeep, residence help, and exploration eventualities. In order to work together with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are outfitted with a devoted robotic arm, which implies further mass and mechanical complexity in comparison with customary legged robots. In this work, we discover pedipulation—utilizing the legs of a legged robotic for manipulation.
This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab, might be offered on the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in May, in Japan (see occasions calendar above).
[ Pedipulate ]
I discovered a brand new phrase in the present day: “stigmergy.” Stigmergy is a sort of group coordination that’s primarily based on environmental modification. Like, when bugs go away pheromone trails, they’re in a roundabout way sending messages to different people. But as a bunch, ants are in a position to manifest surprisingly complicated coordinated behaviors. Cool, proper? Researchers at IRIDIA are exploring the probabilities for robots utilizing stigmergy with a cool “synthetic pheromone” system utilizing a UV-sensitive floor.
“Automatic Design of Stigmergy-Based Behaviors for Robot Swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is revealed within the journal Communications Engineering.
[ Nature ] by way of [ IRIDIA ]
Thanks, David!
Filmed in July 2017, this video exhibits Atlas strolling by means of a “hatch” on a pitching floor. This talent makes use of autonomous behaviors, with the robotic not understanding concerning the rocking world. Robot constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.
[ IHMC ]
That IHMC video jogged my memory of the SAFFiR program for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robots, which is chargeable for a bunch of actually cool analysis in partnership with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. NRL did some attention-grabbing stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their very own movies. That effort I believe didn’t get almost sufficient credit score for being very entertaining whereas speaking vital robotics analysis.
[ NRL ]
I need extra robotic movies with this power.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Large industrial-asset operators more and more use robotics to automate hazardous work at their amenities. This has led to hovering demand for autonomous inspection options like ANYmal. Series manufacturing by our companion Zollner permits ANYbotics to produce our prospects with the required portions of robots.
[ ANYbotics ]
This week is Grain Bin Safety Week, and Grain Weevil is right here to assist.
[ Grain Weevil ]
Oof, that is some heavy, heavy deep-time stuff.
[ Onkalo ]
And now, this.
[ RozenZebet ]
Hawkeye is a real-time multimodal conversation-and-interaction agent for the Boston Dynamics’ cellular robotic Spot. Leveraging OpenAI’s experimental GPT-4 Turbo and Vision AI fashions, Hawkeye goals to empower everybody, from seniors to well being care professionals in forming new and distinctive interactions with the world round them.
That second at 1:07 is so relatable.
[ Hawkeye ]
[ Wing ]
The rover Artemis, developed on the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center, has been outfitted with a penetrometer that measures the soil’s penetration resistance to acquire exact details about soil energy. The video showcases an preliminary take a look at run with the gadget mounted on the robotic. During this take a look at, the robotic was remotely managed, and the utmost penetration depth was restricted to fifteen millimeters.
[ DFKI ]
To effectively obtain complicated humanoid loco-manipulation duties in industrial contexts, we suggest a mixed vision-based tracker-localization interaction built-in as a part of a task-space whole-body-optimization management. Our strategy permits humanoid robots, focused for industrial manufacturing, to govern and assemble large-scale objects whereas strolling.
[ Paper ]
We developed a novel multibody robotic (known as the Two-Body Bot) consisting of two small-footprint cellular bases related by a four-bar linkage the place handlebars are mounted. Each base measures solely 29.2 centimeters extensive, making the robotic possible the slimmest ever developed for cellular postural help.
[ MIT ]
Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert.
[ Lex Fridman ]
