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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program not too long ago carried out its fourth experiment (E4) to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned autos. These checks, carried out in Texas in late 2023, have been the primary time this system examined its new car, the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP). The video reveals autonomous route following for mobility testing and demonstration, together with sensor level cloud visualizations.
The 12-ton RHP is considerably bigger than the 2-ton RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs) already in use in this system. Using the algorithms on a really completely different platform helps RACER towards its objective of platform agnostic autonomy of combat-scale autos in advanced, mission-relevant off-road environments which might be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road situations.
[ DARPA ]
In our new Science Roboticspaper, we introduce an autonomous navigation system developed for our wheeled-legged quadrupeds, designed for quick and environment friendly navigation inside massive city environments. Driven by neural community insurance policies, our easy, unified management system allows easy gait transitions, sensible navigation planning, and extremely responsive impediment avoidance in populated city environments.
[ Github ]
Generation 7 of ‘Phoenix’ robots embrace improved human-like vary of movement. Improvements in uptime, visible notion, and tactile sensing improve the potential of the system to carry out advanced duties over longer intervals. Design iteration considerably decreases construct time. The pace at which new duties may be automated has elevated 50x, marking a significant inflection level in process automation pace.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’re proud to have fun our one millionth industrial supply—that’s one million deliveries of lifesaving blood, essential vaccines, last-minute groceries, and a lot extra. But the very best half? This is only the start.
[ Zipline ]
Work these hips!
[ RoMeLa ]
This factor is form of terrifying, and I’m fascinated by it.
[ AVFL ]
We suggest a novel humanoid TWIMP, which mixes a human mimetic musculoskeletal higher limb with a two-wheel inverted pendulum. By combining the advantage of a musculoskeletal humanoid, which may obtain gentle contact with the exterior atmosphere, and the advantage of a two-wheel inverted pendulum with a small footprint and excessive mobility, we are able to simply examine studying management techniques in environments with contact and sudden affect.
From Humanoids 2018.
[ Paper ] by way of [ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Kento!
Ballbots are uniquely able to pushing wheelchairs—arguably higher than legged platforms, as a result of they’ll transfer in any path with out having to reposition themselves.
[ Paper ]
Charge Robotics is constructing robots that automate essentially the most labor-intensive elements of photo voltaic development. Solar has quickly develop into the most affordable type of energy era in lots of areas. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the first barrier to getting it put in is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots take away the labor bottleneck, permitting development corporations to satisfy the rising demand for photo voltaic, and enabling the world to modify to renewables quicker.
[ Charge Robotics ]
Robots doing precision meeting is cool and all, however these vibratory bowl sorters appear to be magic.
[ FANUC ]
The QUT CGRAS challenge’s robotic prototype captures pictures of child corals, destined for the Great Barrier Reef, monitoring and counting them in develop tanks. The crew makes use of state-of-the-art AI algorithms to robotically detect and rely these coral infants and monitor their progress over time – saving human counting money and time.
[ QUT ]
We are conducting analysis to develop Unmanned Aerial Systems to help in wildfire monitoring. The hazardous, dynamic, and visually degraded atmosphere of wildfire offers rise to many unsolved elementary analysis challenges.
[ CMU ]
Here’s slightly extra video of that robotic elevator, however I’m questioning why it’s so sluggish—clamp these bots in there and rocket that elevator up and down!
[ NAVER ]
In March 2024, Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated the Omnid cellular collaborative robots (mocobots) at MARS, a convention in Ojai, California on Machine studying, Automation, Robotics, and Space, hosted by Jeff Bezos. The “swarm” of mocobots is designed to collaborate with people, permitting a human to simply manipulate massive, heavy, or awkward payloads. In this case, the mocobots cancel the impact of gravity, so the human can simply manipulate the mock airplane wing in six levels of freedom. In common, human-cobot techniques mix the very best of human capabilities with the very best of robotic capabilities.
[ Northwestern ]
There’s one thing so soothing about watching a lithium battery get wrecked and burn for 8 minutes.
EELS, or Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, is a flexible, snake-like robotic designed for exploration of beforehand inaccessible terrain. This speak on EELS was offered on the 2024 Amazon MARS convention.
[ JPL ]
The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock an exquisite new world of potentialities in on a regular basis life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the best way machines assume, she reveals how “liquid networks”—a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of easy organisms—may assist clever machines course of data extra effectively and provides rise to “bodily intelligence” that can allow AI to function past digital confines and have interaction dynamically in the true world.
[ TED ]
