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Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Might 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
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Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
See NVIDIA’s journey from pioneering superior autonomous car {hardware} and simulation instruments to accelerated notion and manipulation for autonomous cellular robots and industrial arms, culminating within the subsequent wave of cutting-edge AI for humanoid robots.
[ NVIDIA ]
In launch 4.0, we superior Spot’s locomotion skills because of the facility of reinforcement studying. Paul Domanico, Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics talks via how Spot’s hybrid method of mixing reinforcement studying with mannequin predictive management creates an much more steady robotic in essentially the most antagonistic environments.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
We’re excited to share our newest progress on educating EVEs general-purpose expertise. Every part within the video is all autonomous, all 1X pace, all managed with a single set of neural community weights.
[ 1X ]
What I discover fascinating in regards to the Unitree H1 doing a standing flip is the place it decides to place its legs.
[ Unitree ]
On the MODEX Exposition in March of 2024, Pickle Robotic demonstrated selecting freight from a random pile just like what you see in a messy truck trailer after it has bounced throughout many miles of freeway. The piles of containers have been by no means the identical and the demonstration was run dwell in entrance of crowds of onlookers 25 occasions over 4 days. No different robotic trailer/container unloading system has but to show this capability to choose from unstructured piles.
[ Pickle ]
RunRu is a car-like robotic, a robot-like automobile, with autonomy, sociability, and operability. It is a new sort of non-public car that goals to create a “Jinba-Ittai” relationship with its passengers, who are usually not solely all the time assertive, but additionally generally whine.
[ ICD-LAB ]
Verdie went to GTC this 12 months and received the hearts of individuals however possibly not the opposite robots.
[ Electric Sheep ]
The “DEEPRobotics AI+” merges AI capabilities with robotic software program methods to repeatedly increase embodied intelligence. The showcased achievement is a results of coaching a brand new AI and software program system.
[ DEEP Robotics ]
If you wish to gather information for robotic greedy, utilizing Stretch and a pair of tongs is about as inexpensive because it will get.
[ Hello Robot ]
The actual cause why Digit’s legs look backwards is in order that it doesn’t bang its shins taking GPUs out of the oven.
In the meantime, a few of us can bake our GPUs with out even needing an oven.
[ Agility ]
P1 is LimX Dynamics’ modern point-foot biped robotic, serving as an essential platform for the systematic improvement and modular testing of reinforcement studying. It’s utilized to advance the analysis and iteration of primary biped locomotion skills. The success of P1 in conquering forest terrain is a testomony to LimX Dynamics’ systematic R&D in reinforcement studying.
[ LimX ]
And now, this.
Cooking in kitchens is enjoyable. BUT doing it collaboratively with two robots is much more satisfying! We introduce MOSAIC, a modular framework that coordinates a number of robots to carefully collaborate and prepare dinner with people through pure language interplay and a repository of expertise.
[ Cornell ]
neoDavid is a Sturdy Humanoid with Dexterous Manipulation Expertise, developed at DLR. The primary focus within the improvement of neoDavid is to get as near human capabilities as doable—particularly by way of dynamics, dexterity and robustness.
[ DLR ]
Welcome to our buyer highlight video sequence the place we showcase a number of the exceptional robots that our prospects have been engaged on. On this episode we showcase three Clearpath Robotics UGVs that our prospects are utilizing to create robotic assistants for 3 totally different functions.
[ Clearpath ]
This video presents KIMLAB’s new three-fingered robotic hand, that includes mushy tactile sensors for enhanced greedy capabilities. Leveraging cost-effective 3D printing supplies, it ensures robustness and operational effectivity.
[ KIMLAB ]
Varied perception-aware planning approaches have tried to boost the state estimation accuracy throughout maneuvers, whereas the function matchability amongst frames, a vital issue influencing estimation accuracy, has typically been missed. On this paper, we current APACE, an Agile and Notion-Conscious trajeCtory gEneration framework for quadrotors aggressive flight, that takes into consideration function matchability throughout trajectory planning.
On this video, we see Samuel Kunz, the pilot of the RSL Help Robotic Race staff from ETH Zurich, as he participates within the CYBATHLON Challenges 2024. Samuel accomplished all 4 designated duties—retrieving a parcel from a mailbox, utilizing a toothbrush, hanging a shawl on a clothesline, and emptying a dishwasher—with the assistance of an help robotic. He achieved an ideal rating of 40 out of 40 factors and secured first place within the race, finishing the duties in 6.34 minutes.
[ CYBATHLON ]
Florian Ledoux is a wildlife photographer with a deep love for the Arctic and its wildlife. Utilizing the Mavic 3 Professional, he steps onto the ice able to seize the uncooked magnificence and the tales of this chilly, distant place.
[ DJI ]