Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON
Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON
RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE
RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA
IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA
IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT
CLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS
Enjoy immediately’s movies!
LATTICE is an undergrad challenge from Caltech that’s growing a modular robotic transportation system for the lunar floor that makes use of autonomous rovers to arrange a kind of cable automobile system to haul issues like ice out of deep craters to someplace extra helpful. The prototype is absolutely practical, and fairly cool to look at in motion.
We’re informed that the group can be concentrating on a full system demonstration deploying throughout a “crater” on Earth this time subsequent yr. As to what these quotes round “crater” imply, your guess is nearly as good as mine.
[ Caltech ]
Thanks, Lucas!
Happy World Cocktail Day from Flexiv!
[ Flexiv ]
Here’s what Optimus has been as much as these days.
As per ordinary, the robotic is reasonably attention-grabbing, but it surely’s most likely finest to largely simply ignore Musk.
[ Tesla ]
The INSECT tarsus-inspired compliant robotic grippER with gentle adhesive pads (INSECTER) makes use of just one single electrical actuator with a cable-driven mechanism. It might be simply managed to carry out a gripping movement akin to an insect tarsus (i.e., wrapping across the object) for dealing with varied objects.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Poramate!
Congratulations to ANYbotics on their $50 million Series B!
And from 10 years in the past (!) at ICRA 2013, right here is video I took of StarlETH, considered one of ANYmal’s ancestors.
[ ANYbotics ]
In this video we current outcomes from the latest field-testing marketing campaign of the DigiForest challenge at Evo, Finland. The DigiForest challenge began in September 2022 and runs as much as February 2026. It brings collectively various companions engaged on aerial robots, strolling robots, autonomous light-weight harvesters, in addition to forestry resolution makers and business firms with the aim to create a full information pipeline for digitized forestry.
[ DigiForest ]
The Robotics and Perception Group at UZH can be presenting some new work on agile autonomous high-speed flight by way of cluttered environments at ICRA 2023.
[ Paper ]
Robots who elevate collectively, keep collectively.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
The subsequent CYBATHLON competitors, which is able to happen once more in 2024, breaks down obstacles between the general public, individuals with disabilities, researchers and expertise builders. The initiative promotes the inclusion and participation of individuals with disabilities and improves help techniques to be used in on a regular basis life by the top customers.
[ Cybathlon ]