Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
HRI 2023: 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM
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RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA
IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA
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Enjoy at this time’s movies!
Have you ever needed to inform a robotic what to do utilizing simply phrases? Our staff at Microsoft is introducing a brand new paradigm for robotics primarily based on language, powered by ChatGPT. Our latest paper “ChatGPT for Robotics” describes a collection of design ideas that can be utilized to information ChatGPT towards fixing robotics duties. In this video, we current a abstract of our concepts, and experimental outcomes from a few of the many situations that ChatGPT allows within the area of robotics, reminiscent of manipulation, aerial navigation, even full perception-action loops. Our objective is to empower even nontechnical customers to harness the total potential of robotics utilizing ChatGPT.
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In which we see the average quantity of progress that Tesla has made with its humanoid robotic (together with a questionably cut-together video of some manipulation), adopted by Musk saying some stuff.
[ Tesla ]
It is essential to search out out the damaging scenario on the rescue web site upfront, so the emergency rescue robotic got here into being.
[ Unitree ]
The bushy caterpillar is a bug that poses a critical risk to on a regular basis life within the Maldives, the place it’s devastating the native Indian almond bushes, a crucial species on the coronary heart of the islands’ ecosystem. DJI Agriculture’s T30 spraying drones have been deployed in a collection of groundbreaking entomological tasks, and have been proven to be efficient at defending towards bushy caterpillars, with minimal use of pesticide.
[ DJI ]
Never get bored with watching this.
[ JPL ]
Teleoperation creates a novel alternative for consultants to embody general-purpose robots and supply their providers on a worldwide scale.
[ Sanctuary ]
The qualification video for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France, of the Middle Size League staff, Tech United Eindhoven.
[ Tech United ]
New 12 months, new search for our check fleet! We’re rolling out a brand new design of our check automobiles.
[ Zoox ]
TRI is utilizing AI know-how to reinforce and improve human capabilities to advance its mission in the direction of attaining carbon neutrality, driving future product improvements, and creating harmonious communities for Toyota’s objective of “happiness for all.”
[ TRI ]
Pranali Desai and Jamie Barnes, software program engineers at Torc Robotics, speak about their experiences navigating a male-dominated office.
[ Torc Robotics ]
Athena 3D is a number one additive-manufacturing-service bureau positioned in Tempe, AZ, that prints elements on demand. Printers run based on programmed specs, and as jobs are accomplished (usually at 3:00 am), the cobot removes the print mattress, units it on a storage rack, and locations a clear print mattress again into the printer. The utility programming interface (API) then communicates to the printer to start out the subsequent job.
[ Fanuc ]
Robotic leg prostheses: the way forward for assistive know-how or a step too far? Powered leg prostheses may make strolling, climbing stairs, and navigating obstacles simpler for customers. But regardless of their promise, robotic legs have remained elusive. Have you bought a profitable design? Register now to participate in our CYBATHLON Challenges, which can happen in March 2023.
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A robotic work cell that may pack novel and irregular 3D objects densely, utilizing imaginative and prescient and tactile sensing to regulate for errors encountered throughout packing. Ninety-nine out of 100 five-item packing makes an attempt had been profitable in these trials.
[ IML ]
The work on the ANT steerage, navigation, and management system for a future planetary exploration strolling system has completed. The remaining checks proved the system’s capabilities on unconsolidated, unstructured, and inclined terrains. The visible foothold adaptation depends on a extremely frequent and drift-free pose estimation and on an up-to-date map. Therefore, contact info is added to the map to include modified floor buildings. In addition, a load-bearing evaluation may be carried out to judge the soundness of the subsequent foothold earlier than counting on it. This method, a steady restoration from collapsed rock formations is feasible, which may enhance the protection of future legged exploration missions.
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Hod Lipson is the James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation within the division of mechanical engineering at Columbia University. He is a roboticist who works within the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing. He and his college students design and construct robots that do what you’d least anticipate them to do: self-replicate, self-reflect, ask questions, and even be inventive.
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Auro from Ridecell introduces the Empty Vehicle Automation function for automobile sharing, wherein an empty car (with no passenger inside it) repositions itself autonomously at an simply accessible location for the subsequent rider.
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Founded in 2014, Verity delivers totally autonomous indoor drone techniques which can be trusted in environments the place failure will not be an choice. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, with international operations, Verity’s system is used to finish 1000’s of totally autonomous stock checks day by day in warehouses in every single place.
We are glad to have been part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Swiss Cloud Day! Verity CEO Raffaello D’Andrea shared the stage with different featured audio system.
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The ALMI venture, funded by the Assuring Autonomy International Programme on the University of York and PAL Robotics, focuses on the event of adaptation strategies that allow the assistive-care TIAGo robotic to deal with the uncertainty and disruptions unavoidable in a house setting. In this resolution, the TIAGo robotic has used each its speech interplay and its object-manipulation capabilities to assist a person with delicate motor and cognitive impairments within the every day exercise of getting ready a meal, together with reacting in emergency conditions. To obtain this, we created an equivalent illustration of the kitchen setting that the TIAGo robotic operates in by utilizing the Gazebo simulator.
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This spring 2022 GRASP Industry Talk, from Mujin, is named “We’re All About Robotics.”
Mujin began in 2011 in Tokyo, with founding members from the USA, Japan, and China. Since our humble beginnings from a motorbike storage (40 sq. meters), we’ve grown to grow to be Tokyo’s largest robotics lab (14,000 m2) by way of innovation and a concentrate on high quality. Mujin helped China’s e-commerce large JD.com construct the world’s first totally automated logistics warehouse in 2017, and is now partnering with corporations like Uniqlo, Accenture, and others to automate logistics and manufacturing world wide.
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