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Enjoy right this moment’s movies!
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it achieved the primary powered, managed flight on one other planet on April 19, 2021. Since then, it has exceeded expectations and most not too long ago executed its fiftieth flight on Mars. This video highlights Ingenuity’s flights, captured by the Perseverance Rover’s WATSON and Mastcam-Z cameras, in addition to Ingenuity’s coloration Return to Earth (RTE) digital camera and its black-and-white navigation digital camera.
50 flights is 45 flights greater than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. It has exceeded the anticipated cumulative flight time by 1,250%, and the anticipated distance flown by 2,214%. Wow.
[ JPL ]
Georgia Tech researchers have not too long ago created a smooth rotary motor utilizing liquid metallic, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. The motor may be squished and squeezed in all instructions, which may someday enhance the compatibility between people and robots and prolong the potential of soppy robots. This smooth motor is orders of magnitude sooner and stronger than beforehand developed smooth motors with a stall torque of three mN·m and a no-load velocity of as much as 4000 rpm. This velocity approaches the potential of conventional exhausting motors! To showcase this new know-how, the smooth motor is utilized in quite a lot of functions from squeeze-based velocity management to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy automobile. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the hole between the capabilities of conventional exhausting motors and novel smooth actuator ideas.
[ Paper ] through [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ]
Thanks, Noah!
DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program not too long ago carried out its third experiment to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned autos. These check runs, carried out 12-27 March, included the primary with fully uninhabited RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs), with a security operator overseeing in a supporting chase automobile. The purpose of the RACER program is to exhibit autonomous motion of combat-scale autos in complicated, mission-relevant off-road environments which might be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road circumstances.
The a number of programs have been within the difficult and unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert on the U.S. Army’s National Training Center (NTC) in Ft. Irwin, California. As on the earlier occasions, groups from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Additionally, researchers from the Army Research Laboratory demonstrated the flexibleness of the performer workforce’s autonomy software program, vital to transitioning RACER capabilities to the providers. This accomplished the undertaking’s first section.
[ DARPA ]
Happy Easter from ANYbotics!
[ ANYbotics ]
Robots aren’t excellent, however neither are folks! And 99% uptime over the period of a 4 day commerce present remains to be spectacular.
[ Agility Robotics ]
Watching a robotic attempt to wipe up a spill actually hammers residence how a lot of a bonus people nonetheless have on the subject of manipulation.
[ Google AI ]
Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that may assist us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably. Our general-purpose robots may be operated in three modes: immediately piloted by folks; operated by folks utilizing pilot-assist; and supervised by folks whereas utilizing the robotic’s built-in autonomous management system to watch, assess, and act on duties. This video explains the method and advantages of teleoperation mode when Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots are piloted by folks.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’ve constructed our robotaxi from the bottom up. To really check it, we’ve needed to break it aside. In the ultimate episode of Putting Zoox to the Test, we clarify how our robotaxi is designed to move probably the most rigorous crash exams and summarize the method from pre-crash simulations to component-level exams and post-crash testing.
[ Zoox ]
More tails for robots!
I assume luxurious leather-based baggage want fatigue testing too.
[ qb robotics ]
Always cool to see completely different teleoperation interfaces.
[ Extend Robotics ]
There have been some exams of how X20 handled adversarial environments a number of years in the past; Later on, these capabilities are come to understand in real-world functions just like the Hazard Rescue resolution. There are extra functions on their method; Eventually, assist people full unattainable missions with no threat.
[ Deep Robotics ]
NAVER LABS is conducting joint analysis on “Natural Robot Motion Generation” with Professor Choi Sung-joon and his workforce at Korea University Robot Intelligence Lab. The analysis includes making varied motions with ‘AMBIDEX’ that has human-like joint constructions and testing folks’s responses to the motions. It goals to search out out when folks suppose a robotic’s motions look pure.
[ Naver Labs ]
This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore College, on “Robotics education and research at a liberal arts college.”
In this discuss, I’ll describe the transition from a research-intensive PhD to a place at a teaching-focused undergraduate establishment within the context of my very own profession trajectory. Key subjects embrace connections between robotics and the liberal arts, and tips for graduate college students who’re inquisitive about pursuing teaching-focused school jobs.
[ UPenn ]