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Constituted of 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 by snake gestures, music, and lightweight.
If this appears a bit of bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The challenge was designed to discover the ideas of belief and threat within the context of robots, and of utilizing know-how 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 Purple Planet. It flew for the final time on January 18, 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital position in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but current limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of progressive methods for bettering teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel method that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to boost the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Generally all it takes is one good punch, after which you’ll be able to simply collapse.
Thanks, Robert!
The brand new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness by its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Constructing upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of structure, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes discovered 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 helping people, discovering functions in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. However, their floating base construction renders them vulnerable to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator could not at all times be possible. On this examine, we suggest a strong 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 Hiya Robotic and Maya Cakmak’s lab at UW) can be introduced 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 bins, and varied different practices… These are the every day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots acquire real-world information from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR challenge goals to develop a flexible and open toolkit for basic robotic features, utilizing deep studying to boost their understanding and decision-making talents. The first goal is to make robots extra clever, significantly in essential areas like healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing. Within 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 top of the start or the start of the tip?”
Prof. Michael Jordan provides his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a wonderful and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]
