Videos from Unitree Robotics and Other Robot Researchers

Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

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Enjoy right this moment’s movies!

At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman sat down with Unitree Founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and Tony Yang, VP of Business Development, to speak concerning the firm’s latest humanoid, the G1 mannequin.

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SACRIFICE YOUR BODY FOR THE ROBOT

[ WVUIRL ]

From navigating uneven terrain exterior the lab to pure imaginative and prescient notion, GR-1 continues to push the boundaries of what’s attainable.

[ Fourier ]

Aerial manipulation has gained curiosity for finishing high-altitude duties which are difficult for human employees, equivalent to contact inspection and defect detection. This letter addresses a extra normal and dynamic process: concurrently monitoring time-varying contact power and movement trajectories on tangential surfaces. We display the method on an aerial calligraphy process utilizing a novel sponge pen design because the end-effector.

[ CMU ]

LimX Dynamics Biped Robot P1 was kicked and hit: Faced with random impacts in a crowd, P1 with its new design as soon as once more showcased distinctive stability as a mobility platform.

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Thanks, Ou Yan!

This is from ICRA 2018, but it surely holds up fairly properly within the novelty division.

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I feel somebody must crank the humor organising on this one.

[ Deep Robotics ]

The paper summarizes the work on the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory on end-to-end neural management of quadcopters. A serious problem in bringing these controllers to life is the “reality gap” between the actual platform and the coaching atmosphere. To tackle this, we mix on-line identification of the fact hole with pre-trained corrections by a deep neural controller, which is orders of magnitude extra environment friendly than conventional computation of the optimum resolution.

[ MAVLab ]

This is a devoted Track Actuator from HEBI Robotics. Why they didn’t simply name it a “tracktuator” is past me.

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Menteebot can navigate complicated environments by combining a 3D mannequin of the world with a dynamic impediment map. On the primary day in a brand new location, Menteebot generates the 3D mannequin by following an individual who reveals the robotic round.

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Here’s that drone with a 68kg payload and 70km vary you’ve at all times wished.

[ Malloy ]

AMBIDEX is a dual-armed robotic with an modern mechanism developed for secure coexistence with people. Based on an modern cable construction, it’s designed to be each robust and steady.

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As quadrotors tackle an more and more various vary of roles, researchers usually must develop new {hardware} platforms tailor-made for particular duties, introducing important engineering overhead. In this text, we introduce the UniQuad sequence, a unified and versatile quadrotor {hardware} platform sequence that provides excessive flexibility to adapt to a variety of frequent duties, glorious customizability for superior calls for, and straightforward upkeep in case of crashes.

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[ TAMU ]

The “pill” (the bundle hook) on Wing’s supply drones is an important element to our plane! Did you realize our bundle hook is designed to be aerodynamic and has steady flight traits, even at 65 mph?

[ Wing ]

Happy fiftieth to robotics at ABB!

[ ABB ]

This JHU Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution Seminar is by Chen Li, on Terradynamics of Animals & Robots in Complex Terrain.

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