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Made out of superbly fabricated metal and eight cell arms, medusai can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and transfer in time to a number of human observers. It makes use of AI-driven pc imaginative and prescient to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly by way of snake gestures, music, and light-weight.
If this appears slightly bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The undertaking was designed to discover the ideas of belief and threat within the context of robots, and of utilizing expertise to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] through [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On 19 April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Purple Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital position in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of progressive methods for enhancing teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel strategy that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to reinforce the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Typically all it takes is one good punch, after which you’ll be able to simply collapse.
Thanks, Robert!
The brand new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness by way of its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Constructing upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of format, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes realized from years of expertise within the subject to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on website.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for helping people, discovering functions in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. However, their floating base construction renders them inclined to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator might not all the time be possible. On this examine, we suggest a sturdy all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate fast and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Good day Robotic and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the College of Washington) might be introduced at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I wish to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
Boxing, drumming, stacking bins, and varied different practices…these are the every day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots gather real-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR undertaking goals to develop a flexible and open device package for elementary robotic features, utilizing deep studying to reinforce their understanding and decision-making skills. The first goal is to make robots extra clever, significantly in crucial areas like well being care, agriculture, and manufacturing. Within the well being care setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and help inside a well being care facility.
[ OpenDR ] through [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck offers a chat entitled “Social robots: The top of the start or the start of the top?”
Professor Michael Jordan provides his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a stupendous and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]