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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Advanced Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program just lately carried out its fourth experiment (E4) to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned automobiles. These assessments, carried out in Texas in late 2023, have been the primary time this system examined its new automobile, the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP). The video exhibits autonomous route following for mobility testing and demonstration, together with sensor level cloud visualizations.
The 12-ton RHP is considerably bigger than the 2-ton RACER Fleet Autos (RFVs) already in use in this system. Utilizing the algorithms on a really completely different platform helps RACER towards its objective of platform agnostic autonomy of combat-scale automobiles in complicated, mission-relevant off-road environments which might be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road circumstances.
[ DARPA ]
In our new Science Roboticspaper, we introduce an autonomous navigation system developed for our wheeled-legged quadrupeds, designed for quick and environment friendly navigation inside massive city environments. Pushed by neural community insurance policies, our easy, unified management system permits clean gait transitions, good navigation planning, and extremely responsive impediment avoidance in populated city environments.
[ Github ]
Era 7 of ‘Phoenix’ robots embody improved human-like vary of movement. Enhancements in uptime, visible notion, and tactile sensing enhance the aptitude of the system to carry out complicated duties over longer durations. Design iteration considerably decreases construct time. The velocity at which new duties will be automated has elevated 50x, marking a significant inflection level in activity automation velocity.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’re proud to have a good time our one millionth industrial supply—that’s one million deliveries of lifesaving blood, crucial vaccines, last-minute groceries, and a lot extra. However the very best half? That is just the start.
[ Zipline ]
Work these hips!
[ RoMeLa ]
This factor is sort of terrifying, and I’m fascinated by it.
[ AVFL ]
We suggest a novel humanoid TWIMP, which mixes a human mimetic musculoskeletal higher limb with a two-wheel inverted pendulum. By combining the advantage of a musculoskeletal humanoid, which might obtain comfortable contact with the exterior atmosphere, and the advantage of a two-wheel inverted pendulum with a small footprint and excessive mobility, we will simply examine studying management techniques in environments with contact and sudden affect.
From Humanoids 2018.
[ Paper ] by way of [ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Kento!
Ballbots are uniquely able to pushing wheelchairs—arguably higher than legged platforms, as a result of they’ll transfer in any course with out having to reposition themselves.
[ Paper ]
Cost Robotics is constructing robots that automate probably the most labor-intensive elements of photo voltaic development. Photo voltaic has quickly develop into the most cost effective type of energy era in lots of areas. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the first barrier to getting it put in is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots take away the labor bottleneck, permitting development firms to fulfill the rising demand for photo voltaic, and enabling the world to modify to renewables sooner.
[ Charge Robotics ]
Robots doing precision meeting is cool and all, however these vibratory bowl sorters appear to be magic.
[ FANUC ]
The QUT CGRAS undertaking’s robotic prototype captures pictures of child corals, destined for the Nice Barrier Reef, monitoring and counting them in develop tanks. The workforce makes use of state-of-the-art AI algorithms to routinely detect and depend these coral infants and monitor their development over time – saving human counting money and time.
[ QUT ]
We’re conducting analysis to develop Unmanned Aerial Programs to assist in wildfire monitoring. The hazardous, dynamic, and visually degraded atmosphere of wildfire offers rise to many unsolved basic analysis challenges.
[ CMU ]
Right here’s a little bit extra video of that robotic elevator, however I’m questioning why it’s so gradual—clamp these bots in there and rocket that elevator up and down!
[ NAVER ]
In March 2024, Northwestern College’s Middle for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated the Omnid cellular collaborative robots (mocobots) at MARS, a convention in Ojai, California on Machine studying, Automation, Robotics, and House, hosted by Jeff Bezos. The “swarm” of mocobots is designed to collaborate with people, permitting a human to simply manipulate massive, heavy, or awkward payloads. On this case, the mocobots cancel the impact of gravity, so the human can simply manipulate the mock airplane wing in six levels of freedom. On the whole, human-cobot techniques mix the very best of human capabilities with the very best of robotic capabilities.
[ Northwestern ]
There’s one thing so soothing about watching a lithium battery get wrecked and burn for 8 minutes.
EELS, or Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, is a flexible, snake-like robotic designed for exploration of beforehand inaccessible terrain. This speak on EELS was offered on the 2024 Amazon MARS convention.
[ JPL ]
The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock a beautiful new world of potentialities in on a regular basis life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the best way machines suppose, she reveals how “liquid networks”—a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of straightforward organisms—might assist clever machines course of info extra effectively and provides rise to “bodily intelligence” that can allow AI to function past digital confines and have interaction dynamically in the true world.
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