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Enjoy in the present day’s movies!
Figure’s robotic is watching movies of people making espresso, after which making espresso by itself.
While that is actually spectacular, simply remember that it’s under no circumstances clear from the video precisely how spectacular it’s.
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It’s actually the footwear that get me with Westwood’s THEMIS robotic.
THEMIS may ship a package deal simply in addition to a human can, if not higher!
And I recognize the inclusion of all of those outtakes, too:
Kepler Exploration Robot just lately unveiled its newest innovation, the Kepler Forerunner sequence of general-purpose humanoid robots. This superior humanoid stands at a peak of 178cm (5’10”), weighs 85kg (187 lbs.), and boasts an clever and dexterous hand with 12 levels of freedom. The total physique has as much as 40 levels of freedom, enabling functionalities comparable to navigating advanced terrains, clever impediment avoidance, versatile manipulation of fingers, highly effective lifting and carrying of heavy hundreds, hand-eye coordination, and clever interactive communication.
Introducing the brand new Ballie, your true AI companion. With extra superior intelligence, Ballie can come proper to you and venture visuals in your partitions. It may aid you work together with different linked units or deal with hassles.
[ Samsung ]
There is a factor referred to as Drone Soccer that received some publicity at CES this week, however apparently it’s been round for a number of years, and originated in South Korea. Inspired by Quiddich, focused at STEM college students.
[ Drone Soccer ]
Every so usually, JPL dumps a bunch of uncooked footage onto YouTube. This time, there’s Perseverance’s view of Ingenuity taking off, a check of the EELS robotic, and an uncommon pattern tube drop check.
[ JPL ]
Our first months delivering to Walmart prospects have made one factor clear: Demand for drone supply is actual. On the heels of our Dallas-wide FAA approvals, in the present day we introduced that tens of millions of recent DFW-area prospects can have entry to drone supply in 2024!
[ Wing ]
Dave Burke works with Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez to check a prosthesis with neural management, by reducing a sheet of paper with scissors. This is the primary time in 30 years that Dave has carried out this process along with his lacking hand.
[ MIT ]
Meet DJI’s first supply drone—FlyCart 30. Overcome conventional transport challenges and begin a brand new period of dynamic aerial supply with giant payload capability, lengthy operation vary, excessive reliability, and clever options.
[ DJI ]
The Waymo Driver autonomously working each a passenger car and sophistication 8 truck safely in numerous freeway eventualities, together with on-ramps and off-ramps, lane merges, and sharing the street with others.
[ Waymo ]
In this paper, we current DiffuseBot, a physics-augmented diffusion mannequin that generates gentle robotic morphologies able to excelling in a large spectrum of duties. DiffuseBot bridges the hole between nearly generated content material and bodily utility by (i) augmenting the diffusion course of with a bodily dynamical simulation which supplies a certificates of efficiency, and ii) introducing a co-design process that collectively optimizes bodily design and management by leveraging details about bodily sensitivities from differentiable simulation.
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