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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program not too long ago performed its fourth experiment (E4) to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned automobiles. These checks, performed in Texas in late 2023, have been the primary time this system examined its new automobile, the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP). The video reveals autonomous route following for mobility testing and demonstration, together with sensor level cloud visualizations.
The 12-ton RHP is considerably bigger than the 2-ton RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs) already in use in this system. Using the algorithms on a really totally different platform helps RACER towards its purpose of platform agnostic autonomy of combat-scale automobiles in complicated, mission-relevant off-road environments which can be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road situations.
[ DARPA ]
In our new Science Roboticspaper, we introduce an autonomous navigation system developed for our wheeled-legged quadrupeds, designed for quick and environment friendly navigation inside massive city environments. Driven by neural community insurance policies, our easy, unified management system allows easy gait transitions, good navigation planning, and extremely responsive impediment avoidance in populated city environments.
[ Github ]
Generation 7 of “Phoenix” robots embrace improved human-like vary of movement. Improvements in uptime, visible notion, and tactile sensing improve the aptitude of the system to carry out complicated duties over longer durations. Design iteration considerably decreases construct time. The pace at which new duties may be automated has elevated 50x, marking a significant inflection level in process automation pace.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’re proud to have a good time our one millionth industrial supply—that’s 1,000,000 deliveries of lifesaving blood, crucial vaccines, last-minute groceries, and a lot extra. But the very best half? This is just the start.
[ Zipline ]
Work these hips!
[ RoMeLa ]
This factor is sort of terrifying, and I’m fascinated by it.
[ AVFL ]
We suggest a novel humanoid TWIMP, which mixes a human mimetic musculoskeletal higher limb with a two-wheel inverted pendulum. By combining the advantage of a musculoskeletal humanoid, which may obtain comfortable contact with the exterior surroundings, and the advantage of a two-wheel inverted pendulum with a small footprint and excessive mobility, we will simply examine studying management programs in environments with contact and sudden influence.
From Humanoids 2018.
Thanks, Kento!
Ballbots are uniquely able to pushing wheelchairs—arguably higher than legged platforms, as a result of they will transfer in any route with out having to reposition themselves.
[ Paper ]
Charge Robotics is constructing robots that automate essentially the most labor-intensive elements of photo voltaic development. Solar has quickly turn out to be the most cost effective type of energy technology in lots of areas. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the first barrier to getting it put in is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots take away the labor bottleneck, permitting development firms to fulfill the rising demand for photo voltaic, and enabling the world to change to renewables quicker.
[ Charge Robotics ]
Robots doing precision meeting is cool and all, however these vibratory bowl sorters seem to be magic.
[ FANUC ]
The QUT CGRAS challenge’s robotic prototype captures photos of child corals, destined for the Great Barrier Reef, monitoring and counting them in develop tanks. The workforce makes use of state-of-the-art AI algorithms to robotically detect and depend these coral infants and observe their progress over time – saving human counting money and time.
[ QUT ]
We are conducting analysis to develop Unmanned Aerial Systems to help in wildfire monitoring. The hazardous, dynamic, and visually degraded surroundings of wildfire provides rise to many unsolved basic analysis challenges.
[ CMU ]
Here’s a little bit extra video of that robotic elevator, however I’m questioning why it’s so sluggish—clamp these bots in there and rocket that elevator up and down!
[ NAVER ]
In March 2024, Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated the Omnid cellular collaborative robots (mocobots) at MARS, a convention in Ojai, California on Machine studying, Automation, Robotics, and Space, hosted by Jeff Bezos. The “swarm” of mocobots is designed to collaborate with people, permitting a human to simply manipulate massive, heavy, or awkward payloads. In this case, the mocobots cancel the impact of gravity, so the human can simply manipulate the mock airplane wing in six levels of freedom. In common, human-cobot programs mix the very best of human capabilities with the very best of robotic capabilities.
[ Northwestern ]
There’s one thing so soothing about watching a lithium battery get wrecked and burn for 8 minutes.
EELS, or Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, is a flexible, snake-like robotic designed for exploration of beforehand inaccessible terrain. This discuss on EELS was introduced on the 2024 Amazon MARS convention.
[ JPL ]
The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock a beautiful new world of potentialities in on a regular basis life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the way in which machines assume, she reveals how “liquid networks”—a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of straightforward organisms—might assist clever machines course of data extra effectively and provides rise to “physical intelligence” that may allow AI to function past digital confines and interact dynamically in the actual world.
[ TED ]