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Take pleasure in at present’s movies!
The method of getting Spot to speak with a character may be very cool, however that is additionally one thing that must be carried out very fastidiously: Spot is a software, and though it could sound prefer it thinks and feels, it completely doesn’t. Simply one thing to remember as extra Spots (and different robots) make it out into the wild.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet.
[ Paper ]
This video presents the outstanding capabilities of the TALOS robotic because it demonstrates agile and strong strolling utilizing Mannequin Predictive Management (MPC) references despatched to a Complete-Physique Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde.
[ PAL Robotics ]
Dr. Hooman Samani from the Inventive Robotics Lab on the College of the Arts London writes, “The concept is to point out how robots will be past conventional use and contain extra individuals in robotics resembling artists as we do at our college. So we made this video to point out how a co-bot can be utilized as a DJ and folks and robots dance collectively to the robotic DJ in a robotic dance get together!”
[ London CCI ]
Future robots ought to carry out a number of and varied duties, as an alternative of straightforward pick-and-place operations. On this video, Dino Robotics demonstrates the functionalities of their software program resolution: it cooks a steak! Bon Appétit!
[ Dino Robotics ]
This video presents a novel perching and tilting aerial robotic for exact and versatile power-tool work on vertical partitions. The system was developed as a part of the AITHON ETH Zürich Bachelor scholar focus mission and introduced at IEEE IROS 2023. It combines a compact built-in perching drone design with a concrete drill’s heavy payload and response forces.
[ Paper ]
That is what very excessive precision, very helpful robotics seems to be like.
[ Dusty ]
I by no means thought I’d write this sentence, however right here is a few video of a failing robotic mudskipper intercourse doll.
[ Nature ]
Good purpose on this drone contemplating that its touchdown pad is dashing alongside at 20 knots.
[ AeroVironment ]
From the individuals liable for the enormous gundam in Japan comes this very massive and really gradual rideable quadruped factor.
[ Robotstart ]
RoboCup 2024 can be in Eindhoven in July!
[ RoboCup ]
A short look into the 2023 IEEE RAS Summer season Faculty on Multi-Robotic Programs, which came about in July 2023 in Prague.
[ CTU ]
Lava caves on Mars and significantly on the moon should not solely attention-grabbing for exo-geologists and different house scientists, however additionally they may very well be used as storage rooms and even habitats for future human settlements. The query is how one can entry and discover these big cavities below the lunar floor with out risking the lives of astronauts. That is the place robots, or relatively groups of robots, come into play.
[ DFKI ]
The rise of latest Basis fashions (and functions e.g. ChatGPT) supply an thrilling glimpse into the capabilities of huge deep networks educated on Web-scale knowledge. On this discuss, I’ll briefly talk about a few of the classes we’ve realized whereas scaling actual robotic knowledge assortment, how we’ve been eager about Basis fashions, and the way we would bootstrap off of them (and modularity) to make our robots helpful sooner.
[ UPenn ]