Video Friday: RoboCup 2023 – IEEE Spectrum

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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

Enjoy at present’s movies!

Here are a few spotlight movies from the Tech United RoboCup staff, competing within the Middle-Size League at RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux. There’s an particularly spectacular purpose towards the top of the second video—as a soccer-playing human, I might have been proud to attain one thing like that.

[ Tech United ]

How to infuriate a NAO for two minutes and 38 seconds.

[ Team B-Human ]

Goalie habits testing for Robot ARTEMIS 2, Team RoMeLa UCLA.

[ RoMeLa ]

We fabricated an array of six inflatable actuators pushed by a single strain line that play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Our actuators are buckled shells that snap by means of in a second configuration when the internal strain reaches a threshold. The actuators are designed to play a piano key every time they snap and we developed an algorithm that based mostly on a desired sequence of notes offers as output the geometrical parameters of every actuator, thus a part of the management structure is encoded of their mechanics.

“Nonlinear inflatable actuators for distributed control in soft robots” was not too long ago printed in Nature Advanced Materials.

[ Nature ] by way of [ SoftLab ]

Thanks, Edoardo!

Always good to be reminded that you simply’ve conquered issues that used to slide you up.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Sure, let’s make winged scorpion robots!

[ GRVC ]

Introducing the TIAGo Pro, a revolutionary robotic with absolutely torque-controlled arms with optimum arm mounting. This enhances the manipulation capabilities and permits state-of-the-art Human-Robot Interaction. Designed for agile manufacturing and future healthcare purposes.

Equipped with main {hardware} upgrades like torque-controllable arms, EtherCAT communication bus at 1KHz, and elevated computational energy, the TIAGo Pro boosts productiveness and effectivity with machine studying algorithms.

[ PAL Robotics ]

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the commonest strategy for estimating the state of autonomous micro aerial automobiles utilizing solely onboard sensors. Existing strategies enhance VIO efficiency by together with a dynamics mannequin within the estimation pipeline. However, such strategies degrade within the presence of low-fidelity automobile fashions and steady exterior disturbances, resembling wind. Our hybrid dynamics mannequin makes use of a historical past of thrust and IMU measurements to foretell automobile dynamics. To display the efficiency of our technique, we current outcomes on each public and novel drone dynamics datasets and present real-world experiments of a quadrotor flying in sturdy winds as much as 25 km/h.

To be introduced at RSS 2023 in Daegu, South Korea.

[ UZH RPG ]

This cute little robotic dude is how I need all my packages delivered.

[ RoboDesign Lab ]

Telexistence raises USD 170M Series B, Announces new partnerships with SoftBank Robotics Group and Foxconn, accelerating its enterprise enlargement in North America and operational capabilities in mass manufacturing.

[ Telexistence ]

The qb SoftClaw demonstrating that the one good tomato is a squished to dying tomato.

[ qb Robotics ]

You see multi-colored balls, we see capsules and tablets, clothes and materials, ripe berries and unripe berries. Learning one easy idea–the right way to type objects–could be utilized to infinite work eventualities.

[ Sanctuary ]

Some highlights from Kuka’s sales space at Automatica in Germany. Two moments that jumped out to me included the miniature automotive meeting line product of LEGO Technic, and in addition the cell robotic with a bit “NO RIDING” sticker on it. C’mon, Kuka, allow us to have some enjoyable!

Also at Automatica was the ultimate spherical of the Kuka Innovation Award. It was a extremely intertesting competitors this 12 months, though one of many judges looks as if an actual dork.

[ Kuka ]

I don’t know the way Pieter pulled this off, however right here’s a clip from the Robot Brains podcast, the place he talks with astronaut Woody Hoburg up on the International Space Station.

[ Robot Brains ]