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Legged robots have the potential to change into very important in upkeep, house help, and exploration eventualities. So as 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 customary legged robots. On 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, can be offered on the IEEE Worldwide Convention on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in Could in Japan (see occasions calendar above).
[ Pedipulate ]
I realized a brand new phrase at the moment! “Stigmergy.” Stigmergy is a sort of group coordination that’s primarily based on environmental modification. Like, when bugs depart pheromone trails, they’re in a roundabout way sending messages to different people, however as a gaggle 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 ‘synthetic pheromone’ system utilizing a UV-sensitive floor.
“Automated design of stigmergy-based behaviors for robotic swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is printed within the journal Communications Engineering.
[ Nature ] by way of [ IRIDIA ]
Thanks, David!
Filmed in July 2017, this video exhibits Atlas strolling by a “hatch” on a pitching floor. This makes use of autonomous behaviors, with the robotic not realizing in regards to the rocking world. Robotic constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Problem in 2013. Software program by IHMC Robotics.
[ IHMC ]
That IHMC video jogged my memory of the SAFFiR program for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robots, which is liable for a bunch of actually cool analysis in partnership with america Naval Analysis Laboratory. NRL did some attention-grabbing stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their very own movies. That effort I believe didn’t get almost sufficient credit score for being very entertaining whereas speaking vital robotics analysis.
[ NRL ]
I would like extra robotic movies with this power.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Giant 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. Collection manufacturing by our accomplice Zollner allows ANYbotics to provide our clients with the required portions of robots.
[ ANYbotics ]
This week is Grain Bin Security 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 Imaginative and prescient 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 Middle, has been geared up with a penetrometer that measures the soil’s penetration resistance to acquire exact details about soil power. The video showcases an preliminary check run with the machine mounted on the robotic. Throughout 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 method 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-Physique Bot) consisting of two small-footprint cellular bases linked by a 4 bar linkage the place handlebars are mounted. Every base measures solely 29.2 cm huge, making the robotic possible the slimmest ever developed for cellular postural help.
[ MIT ]
Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert.
[ Lex Fridman ]
