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Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
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Take pleasure in at present’s movies!
This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gasoline, proper off the 3D-printer. It may also be printed in a single go, from one materials. Researchers from the College of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robotic in a complicated on-line publication within the journal Superior Clever Methods. They used the best expertise obtainable: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design method is just not solely sturdy, it is usually low-cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.
And particulars!
( Paper ) by way of ( College of California San Diego )
Why would you like a humanoid robotic to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I assume, however it’s laborious to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle groups that we do will transfer optimally by simply attempting to imitate us.
( Determine )
I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little gentle robotic worm by some means strikes with an unbelievable quantity of persona.
Tender actuators are crucial for enabling gentle robots, medical units, and haptic methods. Many gentle actuators, nonetheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on laborious circuitry for management, limiting their potential functions. On this work, the primary gentle electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.
( Paper ) by way of ( Georgia Tech )
Thanks, Ellen!
A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this had been a human doing it.
( Boston Dynamics )
My colleagues had been impressed by this cooking robotic, however that could be as a result of journalists are all the time impressed by free meals.
(Pos toha)
That is our newest work a couple of hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robotic known as SPIDAR, which exhibits distinctive and complicated locomotion kinds in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been introduced within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Analysis (ISRR) 2024.
( Paper ) by way of ( Dragon Lab )
Thanks, mine!
This recent, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck pace of humanoid intelligence development. Every single day brings one thing thrilling!
( Unitree )
There ought to be extra robots you could trip round on.
( AgileX Robotics )
There ought to be extra robots that put on hats at work.
( Ugo )
iRobot, who pioneered large docks for robotic vacuums, is now transferring away from large docks for robotic vacuums.
( iRobot )
There’s a well-known experiment the place should you put a lifeless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. Someway, you are able to do the identical factor with an unactuated quadruped robotic on a treadmill.
( Delft College of Expertise )
Mush! Narrowly!
( Hybrid Robotics )
It’s freaking me out somewhat bit that this couple is outwardly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and nil different people.
( MagicLab )
I’m attempting, I actually am, however the yellow is simply not working for me.
( Kepler )
By having Stretch tackle the bodily demanding process of unloading trailers stacked ground to ceiling with containers, Hole Inc has lowered accidents, lowered turnover, and watched workers get enthusiastic about automation supposed to maintain them secure.
( Boston Dynamics )
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to raised perceive the previous and current habitability of the Pink Planet. Of specific curiosity to its search are natural molecules: the constructing blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone known as “Cumberland,” the biggest organics but found on Mars.
( NASA )
This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Basis Fashions.
Common-purpose pretrained fashions have remodeled pure language processing, pc imaginative and prescient, and different fields. In precept, such approaches ought to be preferrred in robotics: since gathering giant quantities of information for any given robotic platform and utility is prone to be troublesome, basic pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current a perfect recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world functions.
From the angle of basic AI analysis, such approaches additionally provide a promising and intriguing method to a few of the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present various bodily capabilities, this may shed gentle not solely on the sensible questions round designing broadly succesful robots, however the foundations of located problem-solving, bodily understanding, and choice making. Nevertheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with quite a few difficult obstacles. What information we could use to coach robotic basis fashions? What would be the coaching goal? How ought to alignment or post-training be completed? On this discuss, I’ll talk about how we are able to method a few of these challenges.
( College of Toronto )
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