Robot Videos: SCUTTLE Robot, Laundry Folding, and More

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Check out our newest improvements on SCUTTLE, advancing multilegged mobility wherever.

[ GCR ]

That laundry-folding robotic we’ve been engaged on for 15 years continues to be not right here.

Honestly I believe Figure may be taught just a few methods from classic UC Berkeley PR2, although.

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[ Figure ]

Tensegrity robots are so cool, however so exhausting—it’s good to see progress.

[ Michigan Robotics ]

We ought to discover out subsequent week how fast that is.

[ Unitree ]

We introduce a strategy for task-specific design optimization of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles. By leveraging reinforcement studying, Bayesian optimization, and covariance matrix adaptation evolution technique, we optimize aerial robotic designs guided solely by their closed-loop efficiency in a thought-about activity. Our strategy systematically explores the design house of motor pose configurations whereas guaranteeing manufacturability constraints and minimal aerodynamic interference. Results exhibit that optimized designs obtain superior efficiency in comparison with typical multirotor configurations in agile waypoint navigation duties, together with in opposition to absolutely actuated designs from the literature. We construct and take a look at one of many optimized designs in the true world to validate the sim2real transferability of our strategy.

[ ARL ]

Thanks, Kostas!

I assume legs are required for this inspection utility due to the steps proper firstly? But generally, that’s how the world is.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR has a protracted custom in growing multifingered fingers, creating novel mechatronic ideas in addition to autonomous greedy and manipulation capabilities. The vary of fingers spans from Rotex, a primary two-fingered gripper for house functions, to the extremely anthropomorphic Awiwi Hand and variable stiffness finish effectors. This video summarizes the developments of DLR on this area over the previous 30 years, beginning with the Rotex experiment in 1993.

[ DLR RM ]

[ Arc Lab ]

Serious query: Why don’t humanoid robots sit down extra typically?

[ EngineAI ]

And now, this.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

NASA researchers are presently utilizing wind tunnel and flight checks to collect knowledge on an electrical vertical takeoff and touchdown (eVTOL) scaled-down small plane that resembles an air taxi that plane producers can use for their very own designs. By utilizing a smaller model of a full-sized plane referred to as the RAVEN Subscale Wind Tunnel and Flight Test (RAVEN SWFT) automobile, NASA is ready to conduct its checks in a quick and cost-effective method.

[ NASA ]

This video particulars the advances in orbital manipulation made by DLR’s Robotic and Mechatronics Center over the previous 30 years, paving the best way for the event of robotic expertise for house sustainability.

[ DLR RM ]

This summer time, a workforce of robots explored a simulated Martian panorama in Germany, remotely guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This marked the fourth and last session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a collaboration between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (‪DLR) to develop how astronauts can management robotic groups to carry out complicated duties on the Moon and Mars.

[ ESA ]