Robot Videos: Jumping Robotic Legs, 3D Printing, and More

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Researchers on the Max Planck Institute for Clever Methods and ETH Zurich have developed a robotic leg with synthetic muscle tissues. Impressed by residing creatures, it jumps throughout totally different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient method.

[ Nature ] by way of [ MPI ]

Thanks, Toshi!

ETH Zurich researchers have now developed a quick robotic printing course of for earth-based supplies that doesn’t require cement. In what is called “affect printing,” a robotic shoots materials from above, progressively constructing a wall. On affect, the elements bond collectively, and really minimal components are required.

[ ETH Zurich ]

How might you not be excited to see this happen for real?

[ arXiv paper ]

Can all of us agree that sanding, grinding, deburring, and sprucing duties are actually greatest completed by robots, for probably the most half?

[ Cohesive Robotics ]

Thanks, David!

Using doors is a longstanding problem in robotics and is of serious sensible curiosity in giving robots better entry to human-centric areas. The duty is difficult as a result of want for on-line adaptation to various door properties and exact management in manipulating the door panel and navigating by way of the confined doorway. To deal with this, we suggest a learning-based controller for a legged manipulator to open and traverse by way of doorways.

[ arXiv paper ]

Isaac is the primary robotic assistant that’s constructed for the house. And we’re transport it in fall of 2025.

Fall of 2025 is a protracted sufficient time from now that I’m not even going to invest about it.

[ Weave Robotics ]

By patterning liquid steel paste onto a tender sheet of silicone or acrylic foam tape, we developed stretchable versions of conventional rigid circuits (like Arduinos). Our tender circuits may be stretched to over 300% pressure (over 4x their size) and are built-in into energetic tender robots.

[ Science Robotics ] by way of [ Yale ]

NASA’s Curiosity rover is exploring a scientifically thrilling space on Mars, however speaking with the mission staff on Earth has not too long ago been a problem attributable to each the present season and the encompassing terrain. On this Mars Report, Curiosity engineer Reidar Larsen takes you contained in the uplink room the place the staff talks to the rover.

[ NASA ]

I like this and need to burn it with hearth.

[ Carpentopod ]

Fairly often, folks ask us what Reachy 2 is able to, which is why we’re exhibiting you the manipulation potentialities (by way of teleoperation) of our expertise. The robotic proven on this video is the Beta model of Reachy 2, our new robotic coming very quickly!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

The Scalable Autonomous Robots (ScalAR) Lab is an interdisciplinary lab centered on basic analysis issues in robotics that lie on the intersection of robotics, nonlinear dynamical techniques principle, and uncertainty.

[ ScalAR Lab ]

Astorino is a 6-axis instructional robotic created for sensible and inexpensive instructing of robotics in faculties and past. It has been created with 3D printing, so it permits for experimentation and the attainable addition of elements. With its design and programming, it replicates the actions of #KawasakiRobotics industrial robots, giving college students the required abilities for future work.

[ Astorino ]

I assume fish-fillet-shaping robots must exist as a result of in any other case clients will freak out if all their fish fillets aren’t equivalent, or one thing?

[ Flexiv ]

Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission—Europe’s formidable exploration journey to seek for previous and current indicators of life on Mars. The rover will dig, gather, and examine the chemical composition of fabric collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin would be the first rover to succeed in a depth of as much as two meters under the floor, buying samples which were shielded from floor radiation and excessive temperatures.

[ ESA ]