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Legged robots have the potential to develop into important in upkeep, house assist, and exploration situations. In order to work together with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are geared up with a devoted robotic arm, which implies further mass and mechanical complexity in comparison with commonplace legged robots. In this work, we discover pedipulation—utilizing the legs of a legged robotic for manipulation.
This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, might be offered on the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in May in Japan (see occasions calendar above).
[ Pedipulate ]
I discovered a brand new phrase immediately! “Stigmergy.” Stigmergy is a sort of group coordination that’s based mostly on environmental modification. Like, when bugs depart pheromone trails, they’re in a roundabout way sending messages to different people, however as a bunch the ants are capable of manifest surprisingly complicated coordinated behaviors. Cool, proper? Researchers are IRIDIA are exploring the probabilities for robots utilizing stigmergy with a cool ‘artificial pheromone’ system utilizing a UV-sensitive floor.
“Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviors for robot swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is printed within the journal Communications Engineering.
Thanks, David!
Filmed in July 2017, this video exhibits Atlas strolling by way of a “hatch” on a pitching floor. This makes use of autonomous behaviors, with the robotic not figuring out concerning the rocking world. Robot constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.
[ IHMC ]
That IHMC video jogged my memory of the SAFFiR program for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robots, which is accountable for a bunch of actually cool analysis in partnership with the United States Naval Research Laboratory. NRL did some fascinating stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their very own movies. That effort I believe didn’t get practically sufficient credit score for being very entertaining whereas speaking essential robotics analysis.
[ NRL ]
I need extra robotic movies with this vitality.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Large industrial asset operators more and more use robotics to automate hazardous work at their amenities. This has led to hovering demand for autonomous inspection options like ANYmal. Series manufacturing by our companion Zollner allows ANYbotics to provide our clients with the required portions of robots.
[ ANYbotics ]
This week is Grain Bin Safety Week, and Grain Weevil is right here to assist.
[ Grain Weevil ]
Oof, that is some heavy, heavy deep-time stuff.
[ Onkalo ]
And now, this.
[ RozenZebet ]
Hawkeye is an actual time multimodal dialog and interplay agent for the Boston Dynamics’ cellular robotic Spot. Leveraging OpenAI’s experimental GPT-4 Turbo and Vision AI fashions, Hawkeye goals to empower everybody, from seniors to healthcare professionals in forming new and distinctive interactions with the world round them.
That second at 1:07 is so relatable.
[ Hawkeye ]
[ Wing ]
The rover Artemis, developed on the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center, has been geared up with a penetrometer that measures the soil’s penetration resistance to acquire exact details about soil energy. The video showcases an preliminary check run with the gadget mounted on the robotic. During this check, the robotic was remotely managed, and the utmost penetration depth was restricted to fifteen mm.
[ DFKI ]
To effectively obtain complicated humanoid loco-manipulation duties in industrial contexts, we suggest a mixed vision-based tracker-localization interaction built-in as a part of a task-space whole-body optimization management. Our strategy permits humanoid robots, focused for industrial manufacturing, to control and assemble large-scale objects whereas strolling.
[ Paper ]
We developed a novel multi-body robotic (referred to as the Two-Body Bot) consisting of two small-footprint cellular bases related by a 4 bar linkage the place handlebars are mounted. Each base measures solely 29.2 cm extensive, making the robotic seemingly the slimmest ever developed for cellular postural help.
[ MIT ]
Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert.
[ Lex Fridman ]