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Take pleasure in as we speak’s movies!
Identical to an actual human, Acrobot will generally kick you within the face.
[ Acrobotics ]
Thanks, Elizabeth!
You had me at “wormlike, limbless robots.”
[ GitHub ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Filmed in July 2017, this video exhibits us utilizing Atlas to place out a “fireplace” on our loading dock. This makes use of a mix of teleoperation and autonomous behaviors by way of a single, distant laptop. Robotic constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Problem in 2013. Software program by IHMC Robotics.
I might say that in the midst of a rainstorm might be one of the best time to begin a hearth that you simply count on to be extinguished by a robotic.
[ IHMC ]
We’re laborious at work, however Atlas nonetheless has time for a dance break.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
That is fairly cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper expertise on industrial grippers from Festo.
[ Paper ] by way of [ BruBotics ]
Thanks, Bram!
[ Hello Robot ]
Impressed by caregiving consultants, we proposed a bimanual interactive robotic dressing help scheme, which is unprecedented in earlier analysis. Within the scheme, an interactive robotic joins arms with the human thus supporting/guiding the human within the dressing course of, whereas the dressing robotic performs the dressing job. This work represents a paradigm shift of considering of the dressing help job from one-robot-to-one-arm to two-robot-to-one-arm.
[ Project ]
Thanks, Jihong!
Tony Punnoose Valayil from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Robotics wrote in to share some very low price hand rehabilitation robots for dwelling use.
On this video, we current a robot-assisted rehabilitation of the wrist joint which might assist in restoring the energy that has been misplaced throughout the higher limb attributable to stroke. This robotic could be very cost-effective and can be utilized for dwelling rehabilitation.
On this video, we current an exoskeleton robotic which can be utilized at dwelling for rehabilitating the index and center fingers of stroke-affected sufferers. This robotic is constructed at a price of fifty euros for sufferers who usually are not financially impartial to get higher therapy.
[ BAS ]
Some very spectacular work right here from the Norwegian College of Science and Expertise (NTNU), exhibiting a drone monitoring its place utilizing radar and lidar-based odometry in some nightmare (for robots) environments, together with a protracted tunnel that appears the identical all over the place and a hallway stuffed with smoke.
[ Paper ] by way of [ GitHub ]
I’m sorry, however individuals ought to actually know higher than to make movies like this for social robotic crowdfunding by now.
It’s on Kickstarter for about $300, and the truth that it’s been funded so shortly tells me that folks have already forgotten concerning the social robotpocalypse.
[ Kickstarter ]
Introducing Orbit, your portal for managing asset-intensive amenities by way of real-time and predictive intelligence. Orbit brings a complete new suite of fleet administration capabilities and can unify your ecosystem of Boston Dynamics robots, beginning with Spot.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
