Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally submit a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE
ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK
Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH
Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!
Agility has been working with GXO for a bit now, however the huge information right here (and it IS huge information) is that Agility’s Digit robots at GXO now signify the primary formal business deployment of humanoid robots.
[ GXO ]
GXO can’t appear to get sufficient humanoids, as a result of they’re additionally beginning some R&D with Apptronik.
[ GXO ]
On this paper, we introduce a full-stack system for humanoids to study movement and autonomous abilities from human knowledge. By shadowing, human operators can teleoperate humanoids to gather whole-body knowledge for studying completely different duties in the actual world. Utilizing the info collected, we then carry out supervised habits cloning to coach talent insurance policies utilizing selfish imaginative and prescient, permitting humanoids to finish completely different duties autonomously by imitating human abilities.
THAT FACE.
[ HumanPlus ]
Yeah these robots are spectacular however it’s the sound results that make it.
[ Deep Robotics ]
Meet CARMEN, brief for Cognitively Assistive Robotic for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation–a small, tabletop robotic designed to assist folks with gentle cognitive impairment (MCI) study abilities to enhance reminiscence, consideration, and govt performing at dwelling.
Thanks, Ioana!
The caption of this video is, “it didn’t work…”
You had one job, e-stop individual! ONE JOB!
[ WVUIRL ]
It is a demo of slicing wooden with a noticed. When utilizing place management for this activity, exact measurement of the slicing quantity is critical. Nonetheless, through the use of impedance management, this requirement is eradicated, permitting for profitable slicing with solely tough instructions.
[ Tokyo Robotics ]
That is mesmerizing.
[ Oregon State ]
Quadrupeds are actually beginning to appear like the brand new hotness in bipedal locomotion.
I nonetheless assume this can be a smart way of charging a robotic. Be certain and watch till the tip to see the detach trick.
[ YouTube ]
The Oasa R1, now on Kickstarter for $1,200, is the world’s first robotic garden mower that makes use of one among them outdated timey reely issues for slicing.
[ Kickstarter ]
ICRA subsequent 12 months is in Atlanta!
[ ICRA 2025 ]
Our Skunk Works crew developed a modified model of the SR-71 Blackbird, titled the M-21, which carried an uncrewed reconnaissance drone known as the D-21. The D-21 was designed to seize intelligence, launch its digicam, then self-destruct!
[ Lockheed Martin ]
The RPD 35 is a robotic powerhouse that surveys, distributes, and drives wide-flange photo voltaic piles as much as 19 toes in size.
[ Built Robotics ]
Area AI’s mind know-how is enabling robots to autonomously discover oil and gasoline amenities, navigating all through the location and inspecting tools for anomalies and dangerous circumstances.
[ Field AI ]
Husky Observer was not too long ago deployed at a busy automotive rail yard to hold out varied autonomous inspection duties together with measuring practice automotive positions and RFID knowledge assortment from the offloaded practice stock.
[ Clearpath ]
If you happen to’re going to attempt to land a robotic on the Moon, it’s helpful to have slightly little bit of the Moon someplace to follow on.
[ Astrobotic ]
Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, doctor Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wi-fi, disposable robotic swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this know-how can swiftly present direct visualization of inner organs. Be taught extra about how micro-robots might transfer us previous the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doorways to extra snug, reasonably priced medical imaging.
[ TED ]
How will AI enhance our lives within the years to return? From its inception six many years in the past to its current exponential progress, futurist Ray Kurzweil highlights AI’s transformative impression on varied fields and explains his prediction for the singularity: the purpose at which human intelligence merges with machine intelligence.
[ TED ]