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Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
You might not be aware of Swiss-Mile, however you’d virtually actually acknowledge its robotic: it’s the ANYmal with wheels on its ft that may do every kind of fantastic issues. Swiss-Mile has simply introduced a seed spherical to commercialize these capabilities throughout quadrupedal platforms, together with Unitree’s, which suggests it’s even affordable-ish!
It’s at all times so cool to see spectacular robotics analysis transfer towards commercialization, and I’ve already began saving up for one in all these of my very own.
[ Swiss-Mile ]
Thanks Marko!
This video presents the capabilities of PAL Robotics’ TALOS robotic because it demonstrates agile and sturdy strolling utilizing Mannequin Predictive Management (MPC) references despatched to a Entire-Physique Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde. The footage exhibits TALOS navigating numerous difficult terrains, together with stairs and slopes, whereas dealing with surprising disturbances and extra weight.
[ PAL Robotics ]
Thanks Lorna!
Do you need to create a spectacular bimanual manipulation demo? All it takes is that this teleoperation system and a fastidiously cropped digital camera shot! That is based mostly on the Cell ALOHA system from Stanford that we featured in Video Friday final week.
[ AgileX ]
Wing remains to be making an attempt to make the drone-delivery factor work, and it’s obtained a brand new, larger drone to ship much more stuff without delay.
[ Wing ]
Quite a lot of robotics analysis claims to be about search and rescue and catastrophe aid, however it actually seems to be like RSL’s ANYmal can really pull it off.
And right here’s much more spectacular video, together with some element about how the system works.
[ Paper ]
This may be probably the most applicable soundtrack for a robotic video that I’ve ever heard.
Snakes have lengthy captivated robotics researchers because of their efficient locomotion, versatile physique construction, and talent to adapt their pores and skin friction to completely different terrains. Whereas intensive analysis has delved into serpentine locomotion, there stays a niche in exploring rectilinear locomotion as a robotic answer for navigating by way of slim areas. On this examine, we describe the basic rules of rectilinear locomotion and apply them to design a delicate crawling robotic utilizing origami modules constructed from laminated materials.
[ SDU ]
We wrote about Fotokite’s modern tethered drone seven or eight years in the past, and it’s good to see the corporate remains to be doing strong work.
I do miss the patron model, although.
[ Fotokite ]
[ JDP ] by way of [ Petapixel ]
That is SHIVAA the strawberry choosing robotic of DFKI Robotics Innovation Heart. The system is being developed within the RoLand (Robotic Programs in Agriculture) mission, coordinated by the #RoboticsInnovationCenter (RIC) of the DFKI Bremen. Throughout the mission we design and develop a semi-autonomous, cell system that’s able to harvesting strawberries impartial of human interplay.
[ DFKI ]
On December 6, 2023, Demarcus Edwards talked to Robotics college students as a speaker within the Undergraduate Robotics Pathways & Careers Speaker Sequence, which goals to reply the query: “What can I do with a robotics diploma?”
This film, Lack of Sensation, was launched in Russia in 1935. It appears to be the film that actually, actually irritated Karel Čapek, as a result of they made his “robots” into mechanical beings as an alternative of organic ones.
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