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Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!
I believe suggesting that robots can’t fall is far much less helpful than as a substitute suggesting that robots can fall and get shortly and simply get again up once more.
[ Deep Robotics ]
Sanctuary AI says that this video exhibits Phoenix working at “human-equivalent velocity,” however they don’t specify which human or beneath which circumstances. Although it’s sooner than I might be, that’s for certain.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
“Suzume” is an animated movie by Makoto Shinkai, during which one of many characters will get changed into a three-legged chair:
Shintaro Inoue from JSK Lab on the College of Tokyo has managed to construct a robotic model of that very same chair, which is fairly spectacular:
[ Github ]
Thanks, Shintaro!
Humanoid robotic EVE coaching for residence help like placing groceries into the kitchen cupboards.
[ 1X ]
That is the RAM—robotic autonomous mower. It may be dropped anyplace on this planet and can get up with a mission to make tall grass round it shorter. Here’s a fast clip of it engaged on the Presidio in SF.
[ Electric Sheep ]
This yr, our robots braved a Finnish winter for the primary time. Because the snow clears and the times get longer, we’re trying again on how our robots made hundreds of deliveries to S Group clients through the colder months.
[ Starship ]
Agility Robotics is doing its greatest to reply the (quite common) query of “Okay, however what can humanoid robots really do?”
[ Agility Robotics ]
Digit is nice and every part, however Cassie will all the time be considered one of my favourite robots.
[ CoRIS ]
Adopting omnidirectional Area of View (FoV) cameras in aerial robots vastly improves notion skill, considerably advancing aerial robotics’s capabilities in inspection, reconstruction, and rescue duties. We suggest OmniNxt, a totally open-source aerial robotics platform with omnidirectional notion.
[ OmniNxt ]
The MAkEable framework enhances cell manipulation in settings designed round people by streamlining the method of sharing discovered abilities and experiences amongst completely different robots and contexts. Sensible checks affirm its effectivity in a spread of situations, involving completely different robots, in duties corresponding to object greedy, coordinated use of each fingers in duties, and the alternate of abilities amongst humanoid robots.
[ Paper ]
We performed trials of Ringbot open air on a 400 meter observe. With an influence supply of 2300 milliamp-hours and 11.1 Volts, Ringbot managed to cowl roughly 3 kilometers in 37 minutes. We commanded its goal velocity and path utilizing a distant joystick controller (Steam Deck), and Ringbot skilled 5 falls throughout this trial.
[ Paper ]
There’s a notable lack of consistency about the place precisely Boston Dynamics desires you to suppose Spot’s eyes are.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
As with each single cooking video, there’s quite a lot of background prep that’s required for this robotic to cook dinner a complete meal, however I might totally demolish these fries.
[ Dino Robotics ]
Right here’s every part you want to learn about Wing supply drones, besides for the way a lot human time they really require and the true value of constructing deliveries by drone, as a result of these issues aren’t enjoyable to speak about.
[ Wing ]
This CMU Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture is by Agility Robotics’ Jonathan Hurst, on “Human-Centric Robots and How Studying Permits Generality.”
People have dreamt of robotic helpers without end. What’s new is that this dream is changing into actual. New developments in AI, constructing on foundations of {hardware} and passive dynamics, allow vastly improved generality. Robots can step out of extremely structured environments and grow to be extra human-centric: working in human areas, interacting with folks, and performing some fundamental human workflows. By connecting a Giant Language Mannequin, Digit can convert pure language high-level requests into advanced robotic directions, composing the library of abilities collectively, utilizing human context to realize actual work within the human world. All of that is new—and it’s by no means going again: AI will drive a fast-following robotic revolution that’s going to alter the best way we stay.
[ CMU ]
