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RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 2024, KASSEL, GERMANY
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Columbia engineers construct Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and makes use of two AI fashions to anticipate and replicate an individual’s smile earlier than the individual truly smiles—a significant advance in robots predicting human facial expressions precisely, enhancing interactions, and constructing belief between people and robots.
[ Columbia ]
Researchers at Stanford College have invented a solution to increase electrical motors to make them way more environment friendly at performing dynamic actions via a brand new sort of actuator, a tool that makes use of power to make issues transfer. Their actuator, revealed 20 March in Science Robotics, makes use of springs and clutches to perform quite a lot of duties with a fraction of the power utilization of a typical electrical motor.
[ Stanford ]
I’m sorry, however the world doesn’t want extra drummers.
At all times good to see NASA’s Valakyrie doing analysis.
[ NASA ]
In difficult terrains, setting up constructions comparable to antennas and cable-car masts usually requires using helicopters to move hundreds through ropes.Difficult this paradigm, we current Geranos: a specialised multirotor Unmanned Aerial Car (UAV) designed to boost aerial transportation and meeting. Our experimental demonstration mimicking antenna/cable-car mast installations showcases Geranos capacity in stacking poles (3 kilograms, 2 meters lengthy) with exceptional sub-5 centimeter placement accuracy, with out the necessity of human guide intervention.
[ Paper ]
Flyability’s Elios 2 in November 2020 helped researchers examine Reactor 5 on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe web site to find out whether or not any uranium was current within the space. Previous to this, Reactor 5 had not been investigated for the reason that catastrophe in 1986.
[ Flyability ]
Numerous musculoskeletal humanoids have been developed thus far. Whereas these humanoids have the benefit of their versatile and redundant our bodies that mimic the human physique, they’re nonetheless removed from being utilized to real-world duties. One of many causes for that is the problem of bipedal strolling in a versatile physique. Thus, we developed a musculoskeletal wheeled robotic, Musashi-W, by combining a wheeled base and musculoskeletal higher limbs for real-world functions.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Kento!
A current development in industrial robotics is to have robotic manipulators working side-by-side with human operators. A difficult facet of this coexistence is that the robotic is required to reliably clear up complicated path-planning issues in a dynamically altering surroundings. To make sure the protection of the human operator whereas concurrently reaching environment friendly job realization, this paper introduces… a scheme [that] can steer the robotic arm to the specified end-effector pose within the presence of actuator saturation, restricted joint ranges, velocity limits, a cluttered static impediment surroundings, and transferring human collaborators.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Kelly!
Our cellular manipulator Digit labored repeatedly for 26 hours break up over the three.5 days of Modex 2024, in Atlanta. All the things was tracked and coordinated by our latest product, Agility Arc, a cloud automation platform.
[ Agility ]
We’re constructing robots that may hold individuals out of hurt’s means: Spot permits operators to remotely examine and de-escalate hazardous conditions. Robots have been utilized in authorities and public security functions for many years however Spot’s unmatched mobility and intuitive interface is altering incident response for departments within the subject as we speak.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
This paper presents a Bistable Aerial Transformer (BAT) robotic, a novel morphing hybrid aerial automobile (HAV) that switches between quadrotor and fixed-wing modes through fast acceleration and with none further actuation past these required for regular flight.
[ Paper ]
Disney’s Baymax steadily takes the highlight in lots of analysis displays devoted to delicate and safe bodily human-robot interplay (pHRI). KIMLAB’s current paper in TRO showcases a step in direction of realizing the Baymax idea by enveloping the skeletons of PAPRAS (Plug And Play Robotic Arm System) with delicate skins and using them for sensory features.
[ Paper ]
Catch me in case you can!
[ CVUT ]
Deep Reinforcement Studying (RL) has demonstrated spectacular ends in fixing complicated robotic duties comparable to quadruped locomotion. But, present solvers fail to provide environment friendly insurance policies respecting exhausting constraints. On this work, we advocate for integrating constraints into robotic studying and current Constraints as Terminations (CaT), a novel constrained RL algorithm.
[ CaT ]
Why hasn’t the dream of getting a robotic at dwelling to do your chores change into a actuality but? With three a long time of analysis experience within the subject, roboticist Ken Goldberg sheds gentle on the clumsy fact about robots—and what it should take to construct extra dexterous machines to work in a warehouse or assist out at dwelling.
[ TED ]
Designed as a expertise demonstration that might carry out as much as 5 experimental check flights over a span of 30 days, the Mars helicopter surpassed expectations—repeatedly—solely just lately finishing its mission after having logged an unimaginable 72 flights over almost three years. Be a part of us for a stay discuss to learn the way Ingenuity’s staff used resourcefulness and creativity to rework the rotorcraft from a profitable tech demo right into a useful scout for the Perseverance rover, in the end proving the worth of aerial exploration for future interplanetary missions.
[ JPL ]
Please be a part of us for a full of life panel dialogue that includes GRASP School members Dr. Pratik Chaudhari, Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, and Dr. Michael Posa. This panel will probably be moderated by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis across the present sizzling subject of AI Embodied in Robotics.
[ Penn Engineering ]
