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IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
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Enjoy at the moment’s movies!
Unitree B2: past the restrict. Maximum pace of 6m/s, sustained load of 40kg and sustained strolling endurance of 5h. The complete efficiency is 2 to 3 occasions that of present quadruped robots worldwide! Adaptable to all terrains, giant load, long-lasting endurance, and tremendous athletic efficiency! Evolve, evolve, and evolve once more!
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This shape-changing robotic simply acquired rather a lot smaller. In a brand new examine, engineers on the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robotic that may passively change its form to squeeze by means of slender gaps in a number of instructions. It weighs lower than a gram however can assist over thrice its physique weight as an extra payload.
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Researchers at CMU used fossil proof to engineer a smooth robotic reproduction of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed practically 450 million years in the past and is believed to be one of many first echinoderms able to motion utilizing a muscular stem.
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Stretch has moved over 1,000,000 buyer packing containers in beneath a 12 months, enhancing predictability and stopping accidents. But how did we get there? Discover how we put our experience in robotics analysis to make use of designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robotic. Starting from the technological constructing blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, energy, and intelligence to automate the trade’s hardest challenges.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
What do the robots do on Halloween after everybody leaves? Join the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating journey. Happy Halloween!
Thanks Josh!
FreeLander is a flexible, modular legged-robot {hardware} platform with adaptive bio-inspired neural management. The robotic platform can be utilized to assemble totally different bio-inspired legged robots. Each module of the platform consists of two legs designed to operate as a two-legged robotic, which is ready to stroll on a metallic pipe utilizing electromagnetic ft. Multiple modules could be mixed to acquire six-legged and eight-legged robots to stroll on tough terrains, resembling tough terrain, slopes, random stepfield, gravel, grass, and even in-pipe.
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Thanks Poramate!
Energy Robotics hopes you had a Happy Halloween!
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This work presents a digital camera mannequin for refractive media resembling water and its utility in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The mannequin is self-calibrating in real-time and is freed from identified correspondences or calibration targets.
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Humans naturally exploit haptic suggestions throughout contact-rich duties like loading a dishwasher or stocking a bookshelf. Current robotic methods concentrate on avoiding sudden contact, usually counting on strategically positioned setting sensors. In this paper we practice a contact-exploiting manipulation coverage in simulation for the contact-rich family job of loading plates right into a slotted holder, which transfers with none fine-tuning to the actual robotic.
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Thanks Samarth!
Presented herewith is one other PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) add-on system engineered to reinforce the functionalities of the quadrupedal robotic, Boston Dynamics Spot. The system adeptly integrates two PAPRAS items onto the Spot, drawing inspiration from the mythological creature Orthrus—a two-headed canine in Greek mythology.
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Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD scholar and Early Stages Researcher (ESR) on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose present analysis focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing smooth supplies for industrial purposes. Her Master’s thesis was ‘UAV anti-stealth technology for safe operation’. She labored as a Research Engineer at Inria, Lille nord Europe, Research Scholar at Tartu Institute of Technology and a lecturer with the Mechatronics and Industrial Robotics Programme at Minia University, Egypt. Eldiwiny hosts the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast the place researchers from each Academia and Industry focus on latest developments within the Soft Robotics analysis area.
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3 labs. Different robotic options of the longer term. Meet CSAIL’s machine pals.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.
Countless science fiction works have set our expectations for small, cell, autonomous robots to be used in a broad vary of purposes. The skill to maneuver by means of extremely dynamic and sophisticated environments can develop capabilities in search and rescue operations and security inspection duties. These robots may also type a various collective to supply extra flexibility than a multifunctional robotic. I’ll current my work on the evaluation of management and energy necessities for this automobile, in addition to outcomes on the combination of onboard sensors. I additionally will focus on latest outcomes that culminate practically 20 years of effort to create an influence autonomous insect-scale automobile. Lastly, I’ll define how this design technique could be readily utilized to different micro and bioinspired autonomous robots.
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