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Cybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024, ZURICH
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Could 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
ICRA 2024: 13–17 Could 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
Take pleasure in as we speak’s movies!
Determine’s robotic is watching movies of people making espresso, after which making espresso by itself.
Whereas that is definitely spectacular, simply bear in mind that it’s under no circumstances clear from the video precisely how spectacular it’s.
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It’s actually the sneakers that get me with Westwood’s THEMIS robotic.
THEMIS may also ship a package deal simply in addition to a human can, if not higher!
And I admire the inclusion of all of those outtakes, too:
Kepler Exploration Robotic lately unveiled its newest innovation, the Kepler Forerunner collection of general-purpose humanoid robots. This superior humanoid stands at a peak of 178cm (5’10”), weighs 85kg (187 lbs.), and boasts an clever and dexterous hand with 12 levels of freedom. Your complete physique has as much as 40 levels of freedom, enabling functionalities corresponding to navigating advanced terrains, clever impediment avoidance, versatile manipulation of fingers, highly effective lifting and carrying of heavy masses, hand-eye coordination, and clever interactive communication.
Introducing the brand new Ballie, your true AI companion. With extra superior intelligence, Ballie can come proper to you and challenge visuals in your partitions. It could possibly additionally allow you to work together with different related gadgets or handle hassles.
[ Samsung ]
There’s a factor referred to as Drone Soccer that bought some publicity at CES this week, however apparently it’s been round for a number of years, and originated in South Korea. Impressed by Quiddich, focused at STEM college students.
[ Drone Soccer ]
Occasionally, JPL dumps a bunch of uncooked footage onto YouTube. This time, there’s Perseverance’s view of Ingenuity taking off, a check of the EELS robotic, and an uncommon pattern tube drop check.
[ JPL ]
Our first months delivering to Walmart prospects have made one factor clear: Demand for drone supply is actual. On the heels of our Dallas-wide FAA approvals, as we speak we introduced that hundreds of thousands of latest DFW-area prospects may have entry to drone supply in 2024!
[ Wing ]
Dave Burke works with Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez to check a prosthesis with neural management, by slicing a sheet of paper with scissors. That is the primary time in 30 years that Dave has carried out this process together with his lacking hand.
[ MIT ]
Meet DJI’s first supply drone—FlyCart 30. Overcome conventional transport challenges and begin a brand new period of dynamic aerial supply with giant payload capability, lengthy operation vary, excessive reliability, and clever options.
[ DJI ]
The Waymo Driver autonomously working each a passenger automobile and sophistication 8 truck safely in varied freeway eventualities, together with on-ramps and off-ramps, lane merges, and sharing the street with others.
[ Waymo ]
On this paper, we current DiffuseBot, a physics-augmented diffusion mannequin that generates tender robotic morphologies able to excelling in a large spectrum of duties. DiffuseBot bridges the hole between just about generated content material and bodily utility by (i) augmenting the diffusion course of with a bodily dynamical simulation which offers a certificates of efficiency, and ii) introducing a co-design process that collectively optimizes bodily design and management by leveraging details about bodily sensitivities from differentiable simulation.
[ Paper ]
