Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Could 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
ICRA 2024: 13–17 Could 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH
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On this work, we current LocoMan, a dexterous quadrupedal robotic with a novel morphology to carry out versatile manipulation in numerous constrained environments. By equipping a Unitree Go1 robotic with two low-cost and light-weight modular 3-DoF loco-manipulators on its entrance calves, LocoMan leverages the mixed mobility and performance of the legs and grippers for advanced manipulation duties that require exact 6D positioning of the top effector in a large workspace.
[ CMU ]
Thanks, Changyi!
Object manipulation has been extensively studied within the context of fastened base and cellular manipulators. Nevertheless, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots permits for a novel mix of object manipulation by way of locomotion, known as loco-manipulation. On this paper, we current an optimization strategy to fixing the loco-manipulation drawback based mostly on non-impulsive implicit contact path planning for our snake robotic COBRA.
Okay, however the place that costume has eyes will not be the place Spot has eyes, so the Spot within the costume can’t see, proper? And now I’m skeptical of the authenticity of the mutual snoot-boop.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Right here’s some video of Area AI’s robots working in comparatively advanced and unstructured environments with out prior maps. Ensure to learn our article from this week for particulars!
[ Field AI ]
Is it simply me, or is it type of wild that researchers are actually publishing papers evaluating their humanoid controller to the “producer’s” humanoid controller? It’s like humanoids are a commodity now or one thing.
[ OSU ]
I, too, am packing armor for ICRA.
[ Pollen Robotics ]
Honey Badger 4.0 is our newest robotic platform, created particularly for traversing hostile environments and tough terrains. Geared up with a number of cameras and sensors, it’ll be certain that no defect is omitted throughout inspection.
[ MAB Robotics ]
Thanks, Jakub!
Have an automation process that requires the precision and torque of an industrial robotic arm…however you want one thing that’s extra rugged or a non-conventional kind issue? Meet the HEBI Robotics H-Collection Actuator! With 9x the torque of our X-Collection and seamless compatibility with the HEBI ecosystem for robotic improvement, the H-Collection opens a brand new world of prospects for robots.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks, Dave!
That is how all spills occur at my home too: tremendous passive-aggressively.
[ 1X ]
EPFL’s group led by PhD scholar Milad Shafiee, together with co-authors Guillaume Bellegarda and BioRobotics Lab head Auke Ijspeert, have skilled a four-legged robotic utilizing deep reinforcement studying to navigate difficult terrain, reaching a milestone in each robotics and biology.
[ EPFL ]
At Agility, we make robots which can be made for work. Our robotic Digit works alongside us in areas designed for folks. Digit handles the tedious and repetitive duties meant for a machine, permitting firms and their folks to deal with the work that requires the human ingredient.
[ Agility ]
With a wealth of unbelievable figures and excellent information, right here’s Jan Jonsson, ABB Robotics veteran, sharing his information and fervour for a few of our robots and controllers from the previous.
[ ABB ]
[ Electric Sheep ]
The AI Index, at the moment in its seventh yr, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes knowledge regarding synthetic intelligence. The Index offers unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced knowledge for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and most people to develop a deeper understanding of the advanced area of AI. Led by a steering committee of influential AI thought leaders, the Index is the world’s most complete report on developments in AI. On this seminar, HAI Analysis Supervisor Nestor Maslej provides highlights from the 2024 report, explaining developments associated to analysis and improvement, technical efficiency, technical AI ethics, the financial system, training, coverage and governance, variety, and public opinion.
[ Stanford HAI ]
This week’s CMU RI Seminar is from Dieter Fox at NVIDIA and UW, on “The place’s RobotGPT?”
On this discuss, I’ll focus on approaches to producing giant datasets for coaching robotic manipulation capabilities, with a deal with the position simulation can play on this context. I’ll present a few of our prior work, the place we demonstrated sturdy sim-to-real switch of manipulation expertise skilled in simulation, after which current a path towards producing giant scale demonstration units that might assist practice sturdy, open-world robotic manipulation fashions.
[ CMU ]
