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Fourier Intelligence has simply introduced the mass manufacturing of their GR-1 humanoid, and so they’ve acquired no less than a dozen of them.
Thanks, Ni Tao!
This collaborative work between researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and VISTEC introduces a biomorphic smooth robotic pores and skin for a hexapod robotic platform, that includes a central sample generator–based mostly neural controller for producing respiratory-like motions on the pores and skin. The design allows visuo-haptic nonverbal communication between people and robots and improves the robotic’s aesthetics by enhancing its biomorphic qualities.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Mads!
According to knowledge from 2010, round 1.8 million individuals within the United States can’t eat on their very own. Yet coaching a robotic to feed individuals presents an array of challenges for researchers. A workforce led by researchers on the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm could make to choose up almost any meals attainable by fork. In checks with this set of actions, the robotic picked up the meals greater than 80 p.c of the time, which is the user-specified benchmark for in-home use. The small set of actions permits the system to study to choose up new meals throughout one meal.
[ UW ]
Thanks, Stefan!
If you watch sufficient robotic movies, you get to know when a robotic is being pushed in a means that’s simple to get well from, and when it’s truly being challenged. The finish of this video exhibits IHMC’s Nadia getting pushed sideways in opposition to its planted foot, which necessitates a crossover step restoration.
Thanks, Robert!
Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, desires to construct woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. And if you’re a professor, you possibly can simply try this.
Also, woodpeckers are bizarre.
[ Ayato Kanada ]
Thanks, Ayato!
Explore Tevel’s joint robotic fruit-harvesting pilot program with Kubota on this video, filmed in the course of the 2023 apple harvest season within the Mazzoni Group’s orchards in Ferrara, Italy. Watch as our autonomous fruit-picking techniques function with precision, skillfully harvesting numerous apples within the idyllic Italian orchards.
[ Tevel ]
Understanding what’s an impediment and what’s solely obstacle-ish has at all times been difficult for robots, however Spot is making some progress right here.
[ EVORA ]
We tried to play Street Fighter 6 by teleoperating Reachy! Well, it didn’t go as deliberate, as Antoine gained. But it was a reasonably epic battle!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
The key property of an information middle are the servers. While most of them are lively within the server room, idle and new property are saved within the IT warehouse. Focusing primarily on this IT warehouse, SeRo automates the inbound and outbound administration of the information middle’s property.
[ Naver Labs ]
Humans could be so imply.
[ Flexiv ]
Interesting HRI with the flashing gentle on Spot right here.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Flying in circles with a giant tank of fuel actually looks as if a greater job for a robotic pilot than for a human one.
[ Boeing ]
On 2 November 2023, at an occasion hosted by the Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences at ETH, Professor Davide Scaramuzza offered a complete overview of our newest developments in autonomous drone know-how geared toward reaching human-level efficiency.
[ UZH RPG ]