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The qualities that make a knitted sweater comfy and straightforward to put on are the identical issues that may enable robots to raised work together with people. RobotSweater, developed by a analysis crew from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a machine-knitted textile “pores and skin” that may sense contact and stress.
RobotSweater’s knitted cloth consists of two layers of conductive yarn made with metallic fibers to conduct electrical energy. Sandwiched between the 2 is a net-like, lace-patterned layer. When stress is utilized to the material—say, from somebody touching it—the conductive yarn closes a circuit and is learn by the sensors. In their analysis, the crew demonstrated that pushing on a companion robotic outfitted in RobotSweater informed it which strategy to transfer or what route to show its head. When used on a robotic arm, RobotSweater allowed a push from an individual’s hand to information the arm’s motion, whereas grabbing the arm informed it to open or shut its gripper. In future analysis, the crew desires to discover the best way to program reactions from the swipe or pinching motions used on a touchscreen.
[CMU]
DEEP Robotics Co. yesterday introduced that it has launced the newest model of its Lite3 robotic canine in Europe. The system combines superior moblity and an open modular construction to serve the schooling, analysis, and leisure markets, stated the Hangzhou, China-based firm.
Lite3’s introduced worth is US $2900. It ships in September.
Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about advanced interplay dynamics between the robotic and these terrains. We suggest a technique that learns to foretell traversability costmaps by combining exteroceptive environmental info with proprioceptive terrain interplay suggestions in a self-supervised method. We validate our methodology in a number of quick and large-scale navigation duties on a big, autonomous all-terrain car (ATV) on difficult off-road terrains, and show ease of integration on a separate giant floor robotic.
This work shall be introduced on the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) in London subsequent week.
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Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union 104 has launched a coaching course on automating and innovating discipline format with the Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter system.
Apptronik has half of its basic function robotic able to go!
The different half remains to be a piece in progress, however right here’s progress:
A noticed lanternfly-murdering robotic is my sort of murdering robotic.
[FRC]
ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, however this nonetheless terrifies me.
Check out the spectacular ankle motion on this humanoid strolling over squishy terrain.
Wing’s progress will be charted alongside the more and more dense environments wherein we’ve been in a position to function: from rural farms to flippantly populated suburbs to extra dense suburbs to giant metropolitan areas like Brisbane, Australia, Helsinki, Finland, and the Dallas Fort Worth metro space in Texas. Earlier this month, we did an illustration supply at Coors Field–house of the Colorado Rockies–delivering beer (Coors in fact) and peanuts to the sphere. Admittedly, it wasn’t on a recreation day, however there have been 1,000 folks within the stands having fun with the kickoff social gathering for AUVSI’s annual autonomous methods convention.
[ Wing ]
Pollen Robotics’s crew shall be going to ICRA 2023 in London! Come and meet us there to strive teleoperating Reachy by your self and provides us your suggestions!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
The best drone engine is not any engine in any respect.
[ MAVLab ]
Is your robotic spineless? Should or not it’s? Let’s discover out.
[ UPenn ]
Looks like we’re getting nearer to that robotic butler.
[ Prisma Lab ]
This episode of the Robot Brains podcast options Raff D’Andrea, from Kiva and Verity and ETH Zurich.
[ Robot Brains ]
