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Created from fantastically fabricated metal and eight cell 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 lightweight.
If this appears a bit bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The mission was designed to discover the ideas of belief and danger within the context of robots, and of utilizing know-how to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On 19 April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Crimson Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital function in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of modern 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.
Typically all it takes is one good punch, after which you possibly can simply collapse.
[ Paper ] by way of [ IHMC ]
Thanks, Robert!
The brand new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness via its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Constructing upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. toes of structure, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes realized from years of expertise within the discipline to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on web site.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for aiding people, discovering functions in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. However, their floating base construction renders them prone to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator might not at all times be possible. On this research, 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 Hi there Robotic and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the College of Washington) shall 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.
[ Hybrid Robotics Lab ]
Boxing, drumming, stacking bins, and numerous different practices…these are the every day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots accumulate real-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR mission goals to develop a flexible and open software package for basic robotic capabilities, utilizing deep studying to boost their understanding and decision-making talents. The first goal is to make robots extra clever, notably in important areas like well being care, agriculture, and manufacturing. Within the well being care setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and help inside a well being care facility.
[ OpenDR ] by way of [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck offers a chat entitled “Social robots: The tip of the start or the start of the top?”
[ Christoph Bartneck ]
Professor Michael Jordan affords 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 ]
