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Do you end up questioning why the world wants bipedal humanoid robots? Allow IHMC and Boardwalk Robotics to reply that query with this video.
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Thanks, Robert!
As NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter made its 59th flight on Mars–reaching its second highest altitude whereas taking footage of this flight–the Perseverance Mars rover was watching. See two views of this 142-second flight that reached an altitude of 20 meters (66 ft). This flight occurred on 16 Sept. 2023. In this side-by-side video, you’ll see the attitude from Perseverance on the left, which was captured by the rover’s Mastcam-Z imager from about 55 m (180 ft.) away. On the fitting, you’ll see the attitude from Ingenuity, which was taken by its downward-pointing Navigation Camera (Navcam). During Flight 59, Ingenuity hovered at completely different altitudes to test Martian wind patterns. The highest altitude achieved on this flight was 20 m. At the time, that was a report for the helicopter.
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Cassie Blue showcases its skill to navigate a shifting walkway, a typical but difficult situation in human environments. Cassie Blue can stroll on to and off of a 1.2 meter-per-second shifting treadmill and reject disturbances brought on by a tugging gantry and sub-optimal method angle brought on by operator error. The key to Cassie Blue’s success is a brand new controller that includes a novel mixture of digital constraint-based management and a mannequin predictive controller utilized on the often-neglected ankle motor. This expertise paves the way in which for robots to adapt and performance in dynamic, real-world settings.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Michigan Robotics ]
Thanks, Wami!
In this research, we suggest a parallel wire-driven leg construction, which has one DoF of linear movement and two DoFs of rotation and is managed by six wires, as a construction that may obtain each steady leaping and excessive leaping. The proposed construction can concurrently obtain excessive controllability on every DoF, lengthy acceleration distance and excessive energy required for leaping. In order to confirm the leaping efficiency of the parallel wire-driven leg construction, we now have developed a parallel wire-driven monopedal robotic, RAMIEL. RAMIEL is supplied with quasi-direct drive, excessive energy wire winding mechanisms and a light-weight leg, and might obtain a most leaping peak of 1.6 m and a most of seven steady jumps.
[ RAMIEL ]
Thanks, Temma!
PAL Robotics’ Kangaroo demonstrates traditional “zero-moment level” or ZMP strolling, with just one or two engineers tagging alongside, and neither of them look all that nervous.
Eventually, PAL Robotics says that the robotic will have the ability to “carry out agile maneuvers like working, leaping, and withstanding impacts.”
[ PAL Robotics ]
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SLOT is a small soft-bodied crawling robotic with electromagnetic legs and passive physique adaptation. The robotic, pushed by neural central sample generator (CPG)-based management, can efficiently crawl on a wide range of metallic terrains, together with a flat floor, step, slope, confined house, and an interior (concave floor) and outer (convex floor) pipe in each horizontal and vertical instructions. It may be additionally steered to navigate by a cluttered atmosphere with obstacles. This small comfortable robotic has the potential to be employed as a robotic system for interior and outer pipe inspection and confined house exploration within the oil and gasoline trade.
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Thanks, Poramate!
It isn’t straightforward for a robotic to search out its manner out of a maze. Picture these machines making an attempt to traverse a child’s playroom to succeed in the kitchen, with miscellaneous toys scattered throughout the ground and furnishings blocking some potential paths. This messy labyrinth requires the robotic to calculate probably the most optimum journey to its vacation spot, with out crashing into any obstacles. What is the bot to do? MIT CSAIL researchers’ “Graphs of Convex Sets (GCS) Trajectory Optimization” algorithm presents a scalable, collision-free movement planning system for these robotic navigational wants.
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As the sphere of human-robot collaboration continues to develop and autonomous general-purpose service robots grow to be extra prevalent, robots have to acquire situational consciousness and deal with duties with a restricted area of view and workspace. Addressing these challenges, KIMLAB and Prof. Yong Jae Lee on the University of Wisconsin-Madison make the most of the sport of chess as a testbed, using a general-purpose robotic arm.
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Humanoid robots have the potential of turning into basic function robots augmenting the human workforce in industries. However, they have to match the agility and flexibility of people. In this paper, we carry out experimental investigations on the dynamic strolling capabilities of a series-parallel hybrid humanoid named RH5. We exhibit that it’s doable to stroll as much as speeds of 0.43 m/s with a position-controlled robotic with out full state suggestions, which makes it one of many quickest strolling humanoids with comparable measurement and actuation modalities.
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Avocado drone. That is all.
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Autonomous robots should navigate reliably in unknown environments even underneath compromised exteroceptive notion, or notion failures. Such failures usually happen when harsh environments result in degraded sensing, or when the notion algorithm misinterprets the scene resulting from restricted generalization. In this paper, we mannequin notion failures as invisible obstacles and pits, and prepare a reinforcement studying (RL) primarily based native navigation coverage to information our legged robotic.
X20 Long Range Remote Hazard Detection Test. We distant the robotic canine from a straight line distance of 1 kilometer, and it efficiently examined the density of gases. The function of the take a look at is to supply answer for firefighters to make use of the robotic to detect dangerous gases first earlier than placing themselves at risk.
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This CMU RI Seminar is by Robert Ambrose from Texas A&M, on “Robots on the Johnson Space Center and Future Plans.”
The seminar will assessment a sequence of robotic methods constructed on the Johnson Space Center during the last 20 years. These will embrace wearable robots (exoskeletons, powered gloves and jetpacks), manipulation methods (ISS cranes right down to human scale) and lunar mobility methods (human floor mobility and robotic rovers). As all robotics shows ought to, it will embrace some enjoyable movies.
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