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Enjoy right now’s movies!
I feel suggesting that robots can’t fall is far much less helpful than as a substitute suggesting that robots can fall and get rapidly and simply get again up once more.
[ Deep Robotics ]
Sanctuary AI says that this video reveals Phoenix working at “human-equivalent speed,” however they don’t specify which human or underneath which circumstances. Though it’s sooner than I’d be, that’s for certain.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
“Suzume” is an animated movie by Makoto Shinkai, during which one of many characters will get become a three-legged chair:
Shintaro Inoue from JSK Lab on the University of Tokyo has managed to construct a robotic model of that very same chair, which is fairly spectacular:
[ Github ]
Thanks, Shintaro!
Humanoid robotic EVE coaching for residence help like placing groceries into the kitchen cupboards.
[ 1X ]
This is the RAM—robotic autonomous mower. It might be dropped anyplace on the planet and can get up with a mission to make tall grass round it shorter. Here is a fast clip of it engaged on the Presidio in SF.
[ Electric Sheep ]
This 12 months, our robots braved a Finnish winter for the primary time. As the snow clears and the times get longer, we’re wanting again on how our robots made 1000’s of deliveries to S Group clients throughout the colder months.
[ Starship ]
Agility Robotics is doing its greatest to reply the (quite common) query of “Okay, but what can humanoid robots actually do?”
[ Agility Robotics ]
Digit is nice and all the pieces, however Cassie will all the time be considered one of my favourite robots.
[ CoRIS ]
Adopting omnidirectional Field of View (FoV) cameras in aerial robots vastly improves notion means, considerably advancing aerial robotics’s capabilities in inspection, reconstruction, and rescue duties. We suggest OmniNxt, a totally open-source aerial robotics platform with omnidirectional notion.
[ OmniNxt ]
The MAkEable framework enhances cellular manipulation in settings designed round people by streamlining the method of sharing realized abilities and experiences amongst totally different robots and contexts. Practical assessments affirm its effectivity in a spread of situations, involving totally different robots, in duties akin to object greedy, coordinated use of each fingers in duties, and the trade of abilities amongst humanoid robots.
[ Paper ]
We performed trials of Ringbot open air on a 400 meter monitor. With an influence supply of 2300 milliamp-hours and 11.1 Volts, Ringbot managed to cowl roughly 3 kilometers in 37 minutes. We commanded its goal pace and path utilizing a distant joystick controller (Steam Deck), and Ringbot skilled 5 falls throughout this trial.
[ Paper ]
There is a notable lack of consistency about the place precisely Boston Dynamics desires you to assume Spot’s eyes are.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
As with each single cooking video, there’s loads of background prep that’s required for this robotic to cook dinner a complete meal, however I’d completely demolish these fries.
[ Dino Robotics ]
Here’s all the pieces you must learn about Wing supply drones, besides for a way a lot human time they really require and the true value of constructing deliveries by drone, as a result of these issues aren’t enjoyable to speak about.
[ Wing ]
This CMU Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture is by Agility Robotics’ Jonathan Hurst, on “Human-Centric Robots and How Learning Enables Generality.”
Humans have dreamt of robotic helpers ceaselessly. What’s new is that this dream is turning into actual. New developments in AI, constructing on foundations of {hardware} and passive dynamics, allow vastly improved generality. Robots can step out of extremely structured environments and develop into extra human-centric: working in human areas, interacting with individuals, and performing some primary human workflows. By connecting a Large Language Model, Digit can convert pure language high-level requests into advanced robotic directions, composing the library of abilities collectively, utilizing human context to attain actual work within the human world. All of that is new—and it’s by no means going again: AI will drive a fast-following robotic revolution that’s going to alter the way in which we dwell.
[ CMU ]