#439233 Robotics group announces an ...Agility Robotics, a branch of Oregon State University, has just revealed a new bipedal robot called Cassie. Unlike the many four-legged and four-wheeled robots currently in existence, Cassie will walk much more like a human. This kind of movement allows for far easier travel across diverse types of terrain while delivering packages or even contributing to disaster relief efforts.[Read more…]
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#439230 Using a virtual linkage representation ...A team of researchers at Yale University has developed a new kind of algorithm to improve the functionally of a robot hand. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes their algorithm and then demonstrate, via videos, how it can be used.[Read more…]
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#439224 Mobile dexterous robots: a key element ...Kinova robotic arms, from left to right: Gen2, Gen3 lite, Gen3 Multiple companies turned to Kinova® robotic arms to create mobile platforms with manipulation capabilities to tackle many aspects of the sanitary crisis. The addition of a dexterous manipulator to mobile platforms opens the door to applications such as patient care disinfection and cleaning — critical to the fight against the virus. […] Continue Reading…
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#439222 MOBLOT: A theoretical model that ...Research focusing on swarm robotics typically uses theoretical approaches to describe robotic systems in an abstract way. A theoretical model that is often used in robotics studies is OBLOT, an approach that represents robots as simple systems, all identical, without a memory and unable to communicate with each other.[Read more…]
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#439220 Video Friday: Virtual Cat PettingVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):
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