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Enjoy immediately’s movies!
Just like an actual human, Acrobot will typically kick you within the face.
[ Acrobotics ]
Thanks, Elizabeth!
You had me at “wormlike, limbless robots.”
[ GitHub ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Filmed in July 2017, this video reveals us utilizing Atlas to place out a “fire” on our loading dock. This makes use of a mix of teleoperation and autonomous behaviors via a single, distant pc. Robot constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.
I might say that in the midst of a rainstorm might be the most effective time to begin a fireplace that you just anticipate to be extinguished by a robotic.
[ IHMC ]
We’re arduous at work, however Atlas nonetheless has time for a dance break.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
This is fairly cool: BruBotics is testing its self-healing robotics gripper expertise on industrial grippers from Festo.
[ Paper ] by way of [ BruBotics ]
Thanks, Bram!
[ Hello Robot ]
Inspired by caregiving specialists, we proposed a bimanual interactive robotic dressing help scheme, which is unprecedented in earlier analysis. In the scheme, an interactive robotic joins arms with the human thus supporting/guiding the human within the dressing course of, whereas the dressing robotic performs the dressing job. This work represents a paradigm shift of considering of the dressing help job from one-robot-to-one-arm to two-robot-to-one-arm.
[ Project ]
Thanks, Jihong!
Tony Punnoose Valayil from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Robotics wrote in to share some very low-cost hand-rehabilitation robots for residence use.
In this video, we current a robot-assisted rehabilitation of the wrist joint which might assist in restoring the power that has been misplaced throughout the higher limb resulting from stroke. This robotic may be very cost-effective and can be utilized for residence rehabilitation.
In this video, we current an exoskeleton robotic which can be utilized at residence for rehabilitating the index and center fingers of stroke-affected sufferers. This robotic is constructed at a price of fifty euros for sufferers who aren’t financially unbiased to get higher therapy.
[ BAS ]
Some very spectacular work right here from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), exhibiting a drone monitoring its place utilizing radar and lidar-based odometry in some nightmare (for robots) environments, together with an extended tunnel that appears the identical in all places and a hallway filled with smoke.
[ Paper ] by way of [ GitHub ]
I’m sorry, however folks ought to actually know higher than to make movies like this for social robotic crowdfunding by now.
It’s on Kickstarter for about $300, and the truth that it’s been funded so rapidly tells me that individuals have already forgotten concerning the social robotpocalypse.
[ Kickstarter ]
Introducing Orbit, your portal for managing asset-intensive amenities via real-time and predictive intelligence. Orbit brings an entire new suite of fleet administration capabilities and can unify your ecosystem of Boston Dynamics robots, beginning with Spot.
[ Boston Dynamics ]