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Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
Determine is making progress towards a humanoid robot that may do one thing helpful, however remember the fact that the “full use case” right here just isn’t one steady shot.
[ Figure ]
Can this robotic survive a 1-meter drop? Spoiler alert: it can not.
[ WVUIRL ]
A kind of issues that’s lots tougher for robots than it in all probability appears.
This can be a demo of hammering a nail. The instantaneous rebound pressure from the hammer is absorbed by a mixture of the elasticity of the rubber materials securing the hammer, the deflection in torque sensors and harmonic gears, back-drivability, and impedance management. This enables the nail to be pushed with a certain quantity of pressure.
[ Tokyo Robotics ]
Though bin packing has been a key benchmark process for robotic manipulation, the neighborhood has primarily centered on the position of inflexible rectilinear objects inside the container. We tackle this by presenting a gentle robotic hand that mixes imaginative and prescient, motor-based proprioception, and gentle tactile sensors to establish, type, and pack a stream of unknown objects.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Standing Replace: Extending conventional visible servo and compliant management by integrating the most recent reinforcement and imitation studying management methodologies, UBTECH step by step trains the embodied intelligence-based “cerebellum” of its humanoid robotic Walker S for various industrial manipulation duties.
[ UBTECH ]
For those who’re gonna ask a robotic to stack bread, higher make it flat.
[ FANUC ]
Cassie must be some of the distinctive sounding legged robots there’s.
[ Paper ]
Twice the robots are by definition twice as succesful, proper…?
[ Pollen Robotics ]
The Robotic Programs Lab participated within the Superior Industrial Robotic Purposes (AIRA) Problem on the ACHEMA 2024 course of trade commerce present, the place groups demonstrated their teleoperated robotic options for industrial inspection duties. We competed with the ALMA legged manipulator robotic, teleoperated utilizing a second robotic arm in a leader-follower configuration, inserting us in third place for the competitors.
[ ETHZ RSL ]
That is apparently “peak demand” in a single marketplace for Wing supply drones.
[ Wing ]
Utilizing a brand new sort of surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, MIT researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, have proven {that a} pure strolling gait is achievable utilizing a prosthetic leg totally pushed by the physique’s personal nervous system. The surgical amputation process reconnects muscle groups within the residual limb, which permits sufferers to obtain “proprioceptive” suggestions about the place their prosthetic limb is in area.
[ MIT ]
Coal mining in Forest of Dean (UK) is such a tough and difficult job. Going into the mine as human is typically nearly inconceivable. We did it with our robotic whereas inspecting the mine with our companions (Forestry England) and the native miners!
[ UCL RPL ]
Chill.
[ ABB ]
Would you tango with a robotic? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robotic choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why instructing robots to maneuver with grace, intention and emotion is important to creating AI-powered machines we are going to wish to welcome into our day by day lives.
[ TED ]