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The Mori3 is a modular robotic constructed by the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL. The Mori3 can change its personal form and performance by altering the best way its modules interconnect. Each module is its personal robotic; every has its personal energy, motors, and sensors. By themselves, they will drive round on the bottom and alter the size of every of their triangular edges. However, working collectively, they perform as a whole system able to attaining many several types of duties. The Mori3 is geared in direction of difficult-to-reach environments the place the duty isn’t all the time recognized forward of time, comparable to outer area.
[ EPFL ]
This video particulars the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robotic quadruped designed and constructed by Alexander Calvert and Nathan Ferguson as a capstone engineering undertaking for the bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University. Total value is about $1,300 AUD. The full invoice of supplies could be discovered on GitHub.
[ GitHub ]
Thanks, Michael!
ABB Robotics and Junglekeepers, a nonprofit devoted to replanting the Amazon rainforest in Peru, have joined forces to work on a particular pilot program. Our mission: to seek out methods of utilizing know-how to assist with one of many greatest issues of our time, the destruction of the rainforest, whereas releasing up rangers’ time to patrol and train locals concerning the significance of preserving this valuable useful resource.
[ ABB ]
We are happy to share with you the most recent progress in our flying humanoid robotic undertaking. Jet-HR2 has been in a position to monitor the specified trajectory within the air for hovering. The robotic made 4 90-degree yaw turns within the air in keeping with a predefined sq. trajectory and returned to its preliminary place for touchdown. The related technical particulars shall be laid out in a upcoming paper.
My favourite a part of this video is the poor man within the again, desperately masking his ears.
Thanks, Zhifeng!
This paper presents for the primary time a form reminiscence alloy (SMA) wire-reinforced mushy bending actuator made out of a castor oil-based self-healing polymer, with the included capability to get well from massive incisions through form reminiscence assisted therapeutic. The built-in SMA wires serve three main functions: (i) Large incisions are closed by contraction of the current-activated SMA wires which are built-in into the chamber. These pull the fracture surfaces into contact, enabling the therapeutic. (ii) The warmth generated in the course of the activation of the SMA wires is synergistically exploited for accelerating the therapeutic. (iii) Lastly, throughout pneumatic actuation, the wires constrain radial enlargement and one-side longitudinal extension of the mushy chamber, effectuating the specified actuator bending movement.
[ Nature ]
Thanks, Bram!
Researchers led by the University of California, San Diego, have developed a brand new mannequin that trains four-legged robots to see extra clearly in 3D. The advance enabled a robotic to autonomously cross difficult terrain with ease—together with stairs, rocky floor, and gap-filled paths—whereas clearing obstacles in its manner.
[ UCSD ]
Thanks, Liezel!
Grabbing an object as skinny as a plastic bag is an unimaginable problem for robotic arms, however Phoenix robots have the high-quality manipulation required to do it.
[ Sanctuary ]
Catching high-speed targets in flight is a posh and sometimes extremely dynamic job. However, present strategies require guide setting of catching peak or time, leading to an absence of adaptability and adaptability and an lack of ability to cope with a number of targets. To bridge this hole, we suggest a planning-with-decision scheme referred to as Catch Planner. Extensive experiments are carried out in real-world and simulated scenes to confirm the robustness and expansibility when dealing with quite a lot of high-speed flying targets.
[ HKUST ]
This paper discusses the incorporation of a pair of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (TremendousLimbs) onto the subsequent technology of NASA area fits. The wearable robots hooked up to the area swimsuit help an astronaut in performing extravehicular actions (EVAs). A full-scale prototype of Space Suit TremendousLimbs was constructed and examined. Results from the experimentation indicated that with the help of TremendousLimbs, metabolic loading throughout EVAs is diminished considerably.
[ MIT ]
The subsequent frontier of know-how is right here. Meet Torc Robotics’ self-driving semitrucks, the subsequent nice development within the huge world of transportation. With innovation, security, and effectivity in thoughts, Torc Robotics has engineered autonomous automobiles which are revolutionizing our current and future.
[ Torc Robotics ]
The Bristol Robotics Lab is stuffed with good individuals.
[ BRL ]
In honor of Raj Reddy’s sixtieth birthday in 1998, a symposium and celebration was held the place many leaders within the discipline of AI and laptop science spoke. Herbert Simon gave this forward-looking speak that’s not solely traditionally related but in addition speaks to the problems surrounding artificial intelligence that we’re discussing at the moment.
[ CMU ]
On this episode of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter interviews Raff D’Andrea.
[ Robot Brains ]
This GRASP on Robotics speak is from Pauline Pounds and the University of Queensland: Drones, Bipeds and Sensors–10 Years of the UQ Robotics Design Lab.
[ UPenn ]