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Made from fantastically fabricated metal and eight cellular arms, medusai can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and transfer in time to a number of human observers. It makes use of AI-driven laptop imaginative and prescient to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly via snake gestures, music, and light-weight.
If this appears somewhat bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The undertaking was designed to discover the ideas of belief and danger within the context of robots, and of utilizing expertise to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] through [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the final time on January 18, 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital function in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but current limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of revolutionary methods for enhancing teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel strategy that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to boost the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Sometimes all it takes is one good punch, after which you possibly can simply collapse.
Thanks, Robert!
The new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness via its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Building upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of format, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes realized from years of expertise within the area to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on website.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for helping people, discovering purposes in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. Nevertheless, their floating base construction renders them prone to failure in cluttered environments, the place handbook restoration by a human operator could not at all times be possible. In this examine, we suggest a sturdy all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate speedy and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Hello Robot and Maya Cakmak’s lab at UW) will probably be offered at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I prefer to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
Boxing, drumming, stacking containers, and numerous different practices… Those are the day by day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots gather real-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR undertaking goals to develop a flexible and open toolkit for elementary robotic features, utilizing deep studying to boost their understanding and decision-making skills. The main goal is to make robots extra clever, significantly in vital areas like healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing. In the healthcare setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and help inside a healthcare facility.
[ OpenDR ] through [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck provides a chat entitled, “Social Robots—The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?”
Prof. Michael Jordan presents his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a ravishing and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]