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#437946 Video Friday: These Robots Are Ready for ...
Video 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!):
HRI 2021 – March 8-11, 2021 – [Online]
RoboSoft 2021 – April 12-16, 2021 – [Online]
Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos.
Is it too late to say, “Happy Holidays”? Yes! Is it too late for a post packed with holiday robot videos? Never!
The Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021!
Now you know the best kept secret in robotics- the ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab is a shack in the woods. With an elevator.
[ ASL ]
We have had to do things differently this year, and the holiday season is no exception. But through it all, we still found ways to be together. From all of us at NATO, Happy Holidays. After training in the snow and mountains of Iceland, an EOD team returns to base. Passing signs reminding them to ‘Keep your distance’ due to COVID-19, they return to their office a little dejected, unsure how they can safely enjoy the holidays. But the EOD robot saves the day and finds a unique way to spread the holiday cheer – socially distanced, of course.
[ EATA ]
Season's Greetings from Voliro!
[ Voliro ]
Thanks Daniel!
Even if you don't have a robot at home, you can still make Halodi Robotics's gingerbread cookies the old fashioned way.
[ Halodi Robotics ]
Thanks Jesper!
We wish you all a Merry Christmas in this very different 2020. This year has truly changed the world and our way of living. We, Energy Robotics, like to say thank you to all our customers, partners, supporters, friends and family.
An Aibo ERS-7? Sweet!
[ Energy Robotics ]
Thanks Stefan!
The nickname for this drone should be “The Grinch.”
As it turns out, in real life taking samples of trees to determine how healthy they are is best done from the top.
[ DeLeaves ]
Thanks Alexis!
ETH Zurich would like to wish you happy holidays and a successful 2021 full of energy and health!
[ ETH Zurich ]
The QBrobotics Team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
[ QBrobotics ]
Extend Robotics avatar twin got so excited opening a Christmas gift, using two arms coordinating, showing the dexterity and speed.
[ Extend Robotics ]
HEBI Robotics wishes everyone a great holiday season! Onto 2021!
[ HEBI Robotics ]
Christmas at the Mobile Robots Lab at Poznan Polytechnic.
[ Poznan ]
SWarm Holiday Wishes from the Hauert Lab!
[ Hauert Lab ]
Brubotics-VUB SMART and SHERO team wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy 2021!
[ SMART ]
Success is all about teamwork! Thank you for supporting PAL Robotics. This festive season enjoy and stay safe!
[ PAL Robotics ]
Our robots wish you Happy Holidays! Starring world's first robot slackliner (Leonardo)!
[ Caltech ]
Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year from ZenRobotics!
[ ZenRobotics ]
Our Highly Dexterous Manipulation System (HDMS) dual-arm robot is ringing in the new year with good cheer!
[ RE2 Robotics ]
Happy Holidays 2020 from NAO!
[ SoftBank Robotics ]
Happy Holidays from DENSO Robotics!
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#437935 Start the New Year Right: By Watching ...
I don’t need to tell you that 2020 was a tough year. There was almost nothing good about it, and we saw it off with a “good riddance” and hopes for a better 2021. But robotics company Boston Dynamics took a different approach to closing out the year: when all else fails, why not dance?
The company released a video last week that I dare you to watch without laughing—or at the very least, cracking a pretty big smile. Because, well, dancing robots are funny. And it’s not just one dancing robot, it’s four of them: two humanoid Atlas bots, one four-legged Spot, and one Handle, a bot-on-wheels built for materials handling.
The robots’ killer moves look almost too smooth and coordinated to be real, leading many to speculate that the video was computer-generated. But if you can trust Elon Musk, there’s no CGI here.
This is not CGI https://t.co/VOivE97vPR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2020
Boston Dynamics went through a lot of changes in the last ten years; it was acquired by Google in 2013, then sold to Japanese conglomerate SoftBank in 2017 before being acquired again by Hyundai just a few weeks ago for $1.1 billion. But this isn’t the first time they teach a robot to dance and make a video for all the world to enjoy; Spot tore up the floor to “Uptown Funk” back in 2018.
Four-legged Spot went commercial in June, with a hefty price tag of $74,500, and was put to some innovative pandemic-related uses, including remotely measuring patients’ vital signs and reminding people to social distance.
Hyundai plans to implement its newly-acquired robotics prowess for everything from service and logistics robots to autonomous driving and smart factories.
They’ll have their work cut out for them. Besides being hilarious, kind of heartwarming, and kind of creepy all at once, the robots’ new routine is pretty impressive from an engineering standpoint. Compare it to a 2016 video of Atlas trying to pick up a box (I know it’s a machine with no feelings, but it’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for it, isn’t it?), and it’s clear Boston Dynamics’ technology has made huge strides. It wouldn’t be surprising if, in two years’ time, we see a video of a flash mob of robots whose routine includes partner dancing and back flips (which, admittedly, Atlas can already do).
In the meantime, though, this one is pretty entertaining—and not a bad note on which to start the new year.
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#437901 How computer simulation will accelerate ...
Jeffrey C. Trinkle has always had a keen interest in robot hands. And, though it may be a long way off, Trinkle, who has studied robotics for more than thirty years, says he's most compelled by the prospect of robots performing “dexterous manipulation” at the level of a human “or beyond.” Continue reading