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Musical dancing is an ubiquitous phenomenon in human society. Providing robots the power to bop has the potential to make the human/robotic coexistence extra acceptable. Hence, dancing robots have generated a substantial analysis curiosity within the latest years. In this paper, we current a novel formalization of robotic dancing as planning and management of optimally timed actions primarily based on beat timings and extra options extracted from the music.
Wow! Okay, all robotics movies positively want confetti cannons.
[ DFKI ]
What an extremely stress-free robotic video that is.
Except for the tree bit, I imply.
Skydio has a elaborate new drone, however not for you!
Skydio X10, a drone designed for first responders, infrastructure operators, and the U.S. and allied militaries around the globe. It has the sensors to seize each element of the information that issues and the AI-powered autonomy to place these sensors wherever they’re wanted. It packs extra functionality and flexibility in a smaller and easier-to-use package deal than has ever existed.
[ Skydio X10 ]
An progressive adaptive bipedal robotic with bio-inspired multimodal locomotion management can autonomously adapt its physique posture to stability on pipes, surmount obstacles of as much as 14 centimeters in peak (48 p.c of its peak), and stably transfer between horizontal and vertical pipe segments. This cutting-edge robotics expertise addresses challenges that out-pipe inspection robots have encountered and may improve out-pipe inspections throughout the oil and gasoline trade.
[ Paper ] by way of [ VISTEC ]
Thanks, Poramate!
I’m not completely certain the way you’d management all of those additional arms in a productive approach, however I’m certain they’ll determine it out!
[ KIMLAB ]
The video is among the exams we tried on the X30 robotic canine within the R&D interval, to look at the pace of its stair-climbing skill.
[ Deep Robotics ]
They’re calling this the “T-REX” however with out a pair of tiny arms. Missed alternative there.
[ AgileX ]
Drag your mouse to go searching inside this 360-degree panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. See the steep slopes, layered buttes, and darkish rocks surrounding Curiosity whereas it was parked under Gediz Vallis Ridge, which fashioned because of violent particles flows that have been later eroded by wind right into a towering formation. This occurred about 3 billion years in the past, throughout one of many final moist intervals seen on this a part of the Red Planet.
[ NASA ]
I don’t know why it’s worthwhile to drive out into the woods to drop-test your sensor rack. Though perhaps the beautiful Canadian backwoods surroundings is cause sufficient.
[ NORLab ]
Here’s footage of Reachy within the kitchen, opening the fridge’s door and others, cleansing filth and occasional stains.
If they ever make Reachy’s face symmetrical, I’ll refuse to incorporate it in any extra Video Fridays. O_o
[ Pollen Robotics ]
Inertial odometry is a gorgeous answer to the issue of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. In this work, we suggest a learning-based odometry algorithm that makes use of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) as the one sensor modality for autonomous drone racing duties. We present that our inertial odometry algorithm is superior to the state-of-the-art filter-based and optimization-based visual-inertial odometry in addition to the state-of-the-art learned-inertial odometry in estimating the pose of an autonomous racing drone.
[ UZH RPG ]
Robotic Choreographer is the world’s first dance performance-only robotic arm born from the idea of performers which are greater and quicker than people. This robotic has a complete size of three meters, two rotation axes that rotate infinitely, and an arm rotating as much as 5 occasions for 1 second.
[ MPlusPlus ] by way of [ Kazumichi Moriyama ]
This video exhibits the newest improvement from Extend Robotics, demonstrating the completion of integration of the Mitsubishi Electric Melfa robotic. Key demonstrations embrace 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) precision management with real-time inverse kinematics, twin Kinect digital camera, low-latency streaming and fusion, and excessive precision management drawing.
[ Extend Robotics ]
Here’s what’s been occurring on the GRASP Lab at UPenn.
[ GRASP Lab ]