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There’s a Canadian legend a couple of flying canoe, due to course there may be. The legend entails drunkenness, a celebration with some women, swearing, and a pact with the satan, due to course it does. Thankfully for the drone on this video, it wants none of that to efficiently land on this (practically) flying canoe, just a few high-friction shock absorbing legs and even handed utility of reverse thrust.
[ Createk ]
Thanks, Alexis!
This paper summarizes an autonomous driving undertaking by musculoskeletal humanoids. The musculoskeletal humanoid, which mimics the human physique intimately, has redundant sensors and a versatile physique construction. We rethink the developed {hardware} and software program of the musculoskeletal humanoid Musashi within the context of autonomous driving. The respective elements of autonomous driving are performed utilizing the advantages of the {hardware} and software program. Lastly, Musashi succeeded within the pedal and steering wheel operations with recognition.
Thanks, Kento!
Strong AI has been kinda quiet for the final few minutes, however their Carter robotic continues to enhance.
[ Robust AI ]
One of many key arguments for constructing robots which have related type elements to human beings is that we are able to leverage the huge human knowledge for coaching. On this paper, we introduce a full-stack system for humanoids to be taught movement and autonomous expertise from human knowledge. We display the system on our custom-made 33-degrees-of-freedom 180 centimeter humanoid, autonomously finishing duties comparable to sporting a shoe to face up and stroll, unloading objects from warehouse racks, folding a sweatshirt, rearranging objects, typing, and greeting one other robotic with 60-One hundred pc success charges utilizing as much as 40 demonstrations.
[ HumanPlus ]
We current OmniH2O (Omni Human-to-Humanoid), a learning-based system for whole-body humanoid teleoperation and autonomy. Utilizing kinematic pose as a common management interface, OmniH2O allows numerous methods for a human to regulate a full-sized humanoid with dexterous fingers, together with utilizing real-time teleoperation by VR headset, verbal instruction, and RGB digicam. OmniH2O additionally allows full autonomy by studying from teleoperated demonstrations or integrating with frontier fashions comparable to GPT-4.
[ OmniH2O ]
A collaboration between Boxbot, Agility Robotics, and Strong.AI at Playground World. Be sure and watch till the top to listen to the roboticists within the background react when the demo works in a really roboticist means.
::clap clap clap:: yaaaaayyyyy….
[ Robust AI ]
The usage of drones and robotic units threatens civilian and navy actors in battle areas. We began trials with robots to see how we are able to adapt our HEAT (Hostile Atmosphere Consciousness Coaching) programs to this new actuality.
[ CSD ]
Thanks, Ebe!
Tips on how to make humanoids do versatile parkour leaping, clapping dance, cliff traversal, and field pick-and-move with a unified RL framework? We introduce WoCoCo: Entire-body humanoid Management with sequential Contacts
[ WoCoCo ]
A choice of glorious demos from the Studying Programs and Robotics Lab at TUM and the College of Toronto.
[ Learning Systems and Robotics Lab ]
Harvest Automation, one of many OG autonomous cellular robotic firms, hasn’t up to date their web site since like 2016, however some movies simply confirmed up on YouTube this week.
Northrop Grumman has been pioneering capabilities within the undersea area for greater than 50 years. Now, we’re creating a brand new class of uncrewed underwater automobiles (UUV) with Manta Ray. Taking its identify from the huge “winged” fish, Manta Ray will function long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments the place people can’t go.
[ Northrop Grumman ]
Akara Robotics’ autonomous robotic UV disinfection demo.
[ Akara Robotics ]
Scientists have computationally predicted a whole bunch of 1000’s of novel supplies that may very well be promising for brand new applied sciences—however testing to see whether or not any of these supplies might be made in actuality is a sluggish course of. Enter A-Lab, which makes use of robots guided by synthetic intelligence to hurry up the method.
[ A-Lab ]
We wrote about this analysis from CMU some time again, however right here’s a fairly good video.
[ CMU RI ]
Aw yiss choose and place robots.
[ Fanuc ]
Axel Moore describes his lab’s work in orthopedic biomechanics to alleviate joint ache with robotic help.
[ CMU ]
The sector of humanoid robots has grown lately with a number of firms and analysis laboratories growing new humanoid programs. Nonetheless, the variety of working robots didn’t noticeably rise. Regardless of the necessity for quick locomotion to shortly serve given duties, which require traversing advanced terrain by working and leaping over obstacles. To offer an summary of the design of humanoid robots with bioinspired mechanisms, this paper introduces the basic capabilities of the human working gait.
[ Paper ]
