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One of the crucial venerable (and recognizable) cell robots ever made, the Husky, has simply gotten a serious improve.
Transport early subsequent yr.
MAB Robotics is creating legged robots for the inspection and upkeep of commercial infrastructure. One of many preliminary areas for deploying this know-how is underground infrastructure, akin to water and sewer canals. In these environments, resistance to elements like excessive humidity and dealing underwater is important. To deal with these challenges, the MAB group has constructed a strolling robotic able to working totally submerged, based mostly on distinctive self-developed robotics actuators. This innovation overcomes the constraints of present applied sciences, providing MAB’s first purchasers a novel service for trenchless inspection and upkeep duties.
[ MAB Robotics ]
Thanks, Jakub!
The G1 robotic can carry out a standing lengthy soar of as much as 1.4 meters, presumably the longest soar ever achieved by a humanoid robotic of its measurement on this planet, standing only one.32 meters tall.
[ Unitree Robotics ]
Apparently, you possibly can print out a useful four-fingered hand on an inkjet.
[ UC Berkeley ]
We current SDS (“See it. Do it. Sorted’), a novel pipeline for intuitive quadrupedal talent studying from a single demonstration video leveraging the visible capabilities of GPT-4o. We validate our technique on the Unitree Go1 robotic, demonstrating its capability to execute variable abilities akin to trotting, bounding, pacing, and hopping, attaining excessive imitation constancy and locomotion stability.
[ Robot Perception Lab, University College London ]
You had me at “3D desk octopus.”
[ UIST 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ]
High-notch swag from Dusty Robotics
[ Dusty Robotics ]
I’m undecided how critical this shoes-versus-no-shoes check is, but it surely’s an attention-grabbing end result nonetheless.
[ Robot Era ]
Thanks, Ni Tao!
Introducing TRON 1, the primary multimodal biped robotic! With its revolutionary “Three-in-One” modular design, TRON 1 can simply change amongst Level-Foot, Sole, and Wheeled foot ends.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
Current works within the robot-learning neighborhood have efficiently launched generalist fashions able to controlling numerous robotic embodiments throughout a variety of duties, akin to navigation and locomotion. Nonetheless, attaining agile management, which pushes the boundaries of robotic efficiency, nonetheless depends on specialist fashions that require in depth parameter tuning. To leverage generalist-model adaptability and adaptability whereas attaining specialist-level agility, we suggest AnyCar, a transformer-based generalist dynamics mannequin designed for agile management of assorted wheeled robots.
[ AnyCar ]
Uncover the way forward for aerial manipulation with our untethered gentle robotic platform with onboard notion stack! Offered on the 2024 Convention on Robotic Studying, in Munich, this platform introduces autonomous aerial manipulation that works in each indoor and outside environments—with out counting on expensive off-board monitoring programs.
[ Paper ] by way of [ ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Laboratory ]
Deploying notion modules for human-robot handovers is difficult as a result of they require a excessive diploma of reactivity, generalizability, and robustness to work reliably for various circumstances. Right here, we present {hardware} handover experiments utilizing our environment friendly and object-agnostic real-time monitoring framework, particularly designed for human-to-robot handover duties with legged manipulators.
[ Paper ] by way of [ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]
Azi and Ameca are killing time, however Azi struggles being the brand new child round. Engineered Arts desktop robots function 32 actuators, 27 for facial management alone, and 5 for the neck. They embody AI conversational capability together with GPT-4o assist, which makes them nice robotic companions, even to one another. The robots are following a script for this video, utilizing one in all their many voices.
[ Engineered Arts ]
Plato automates carrying and transporting, giving your employees extra time to concentrate on what actually issues, bettering their high quality of life. With a simple setup that requires no markers or further {hardware}, Plato is extremely intuitive to make use of—no programming abilities wanted.
[ Aldebaran ]
This UPenn GRASP Lab seminar is from Antonio Loquercio, on “Simulation: What made us clever will make our robots clever.”
Simulation-to-reality switch is an rising strategy that allows robots to develop abilities in simulated environments earlier than making use of them in the true world. This technique has catalyzed quite a few developments in robotic studying, from locomotion to agile flight. On this discuss, I’ll discover simulation-to-reality switch by means of the lens of evolutionary biology, drawing intriguing parallels with the perform of the mammalian neocortex. By reframing this method within the context of organic evolution, we will uncover novel analysis questions and discover how simulation-to-reality switch can evolve from an empirically pushed course of to a scientific self-discipline.
[ University of Pennsylvania ]
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