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#439612 Boston Dynamics’ latest video ...
Boston Dynamics, the company known for its robotic dogs, now has a humanoid robot capable of doing gymnastics. Continue reading
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#439596 Video Friday: Robo Chameleon
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!):
DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USAWeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USAIROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event]ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA
Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.
Honestly, the “robot” part of this robotic chameleon is not even a little bit exciting, but the skin attached to it is super cool.
It's not shown very well in the video, but the skin can do patterns, too! There are some pictures in the paper at the link below, open access in Nature Communications.
[ Paper ]
Designed and built based on the user feedback from real-world application scenarios and DEEP Robotics' deep understanding of industry applications, Jueying X20 features strong load capacity and scalability, autonomous charging, all-scenario coverage, great computing power, and perceptual precision while operating flawlessly in adverse weather conditions.
[ DeepRobotics ]
Volleyball? Now solved by robots, thank you!
The robot predicts the trajectory of a flying ball and generates motion in a fragment of a second based on past learning experiences immediately. The robot was developed by Dr. Kazutoshi Tanaka under the supervision of Professor Yasuo Kuniyoshi and with the cooperation of Dr. Ryuma Niiyama and Dr. Satoshi Nishikawa at Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics (ISI Lab), Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Fan!
Haven't seen too much in the way of work on DRC Atlas lately, but UT Austin seems to still have some stuff going on, at least in simulation.
[ UT Austin ]
Meet Tready, HEBI robotics track base robot platform. Tready is an extremely versatile and agile mobile base, capable of navigating difficult and uneven terrain, climbing stairs, and accessing confined spaces.
If it comes with those googly eyes out of the box, I'm sold.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks Kamal!
NSF awarded a whole bunch of money for soft robotics research a few years ago, and we're starting to see some of the results.
[ Lehigh AIR Lab ]
Thanks, Fan!
The 2020 Cybathlon may have been virtual, but the winning cyborgs still got their trophies.
[ Cybathlon ]
Extend Robotics is combining a drone, robotics, and VR in a way that I don't totally understand, but that looks fancy anyway.
[ Extend Robotics ]
Pepper Robot for Healthcare and patients with Dementia. Research by the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
[ UMD ] via [ RobotLAB ]
The University of Canterbury in collaboration with edX is offering a Professional Certificate inHuman-Robot Interaction. The participation in this MOOC is free.
Free sounds good, but the website also seems to be asking me for $450, so not sure what's up with that.
[ edX ]
Rising star in robotics, Georgia Chalvatzaki, is an independent research group leader of the iROSA group at TU Darmstadt in Germany. Dr Chalvatzaki was also accepted for the renowned Emmy Noether Programme (ENP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) which enables outstanding young scientists to qualify for a university professorship by independently leading a junior research group over six years. In her research group iROSA, Dr. Chalvatzaki and her new team research the topic of “Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation for Assistive Robotics”.
[ iROSA ] Continue reading
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#439576 Video Friday: Robot Opera
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!):
RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event]DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USAWeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USAIROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event]ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USALet us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.
The New National Theatre Tokyo presents Super Angel: “Witness the birth of a new opera, performed by Alter 3, an android with artificial life who makes friends with children in the chorus as they sing and perform together.”
Alter 3 is characterized by its body, in which all interior mechanisms are exposed, and a face from which it is impossible to determine gender or age, and it is an android robot designed to feel life, which is unprecedented in the field. Researchers from Osaka University and the University of Tokyo, which are famous for their work into androids and artificial life, have been collaborating up until now to create and study two Alter androids. The main challenges of this are whether or not it is possible for robots to acquire a sense of life independently through interactivity with the outside world, and to answer the basic question of exactly what life is through the course of this. [ NNTT ] via [ Robotstart ]
Running the bases at Dodger Stadium is a fun tradition that many children look forward to after most Sunday games. But not all children, especially those who are currently hospitalized or recovering from an illness at home, can physically experience it. That's why UCLA Health, the Dodgers and OhmniLabs teamed up to create a virtual run-the-bases experience for 10 pediatric patients at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital.
[ UCLA ]
Thanks, Joseph!
The way to teach robots to move like animals is to collect data from animals, and it's surprising how much of a difference some little tweaks can make to a quadrupedal gait.
[ ETHZ CRL ]
Thanks, Fan!
Walker X had me at back massage.
[ Ubtech ]
I needed this video today.
[ Soft Robotics ]
MIT faculty and staff reimagine an iconic mechanical engineering class – 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) – so students can go head-to-head in the final robot competition from their dorm rooms, apartments, or homes across the country.
The full competition livestreams are at the link below.
[ MIT 2.007 ]
The world's best female flair bartender vs the most advanced bartending robot. Who's gonna win?
Kuka's last human versus robot challenge involving table tennis was a huge disappointment, so I really hope this one is better.
[ Makr Shakr ]
I know software compliance is all the rage, but there's still something to be said for robot arms that are inherently soft.
[ Motion Intelligent Lab ]
Thanks, Fan!
We present a versatile, adhesive, and soft material (called VENOM) with high dynamic friction and normal adhesion forces on various smooth and rough surfaces. VENOM is a dry adhesive material based on a simple mixture of super-soft, fast cure platinum-catalyzed silicone and iron powder. Our result demonstrates the use of VENOM for the feet of our sprawling posture robot.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Poramate!
Hybrid security by humans and robots. Communication with humans is handled by security guards through the avatar security robot Ugo, and hybrid security takes advantage of the characteristics of each robot and security guard.
What's the head on the stick at the end? I want one of those!
[ Ugo ]
Check out more views of the MQ-25 T1 test asset's historic flight, when it became the first unmanned aircraft to ever refuel another aircraft—piloted or autonomous—during flight. During a June 2021 flight test, the MQ25 T1 test asset transferred fuel to an F/A-18 Super Hornet.
[ Boeing ]
It's definitely cool to be able to do this with a robot, but it really makes you realize how effortless these tasks are for humans, right?
[ Extend Robotics ]
GE Research's Robotics and Autonomy team, led by Senior Robotics Scientist, Shiraj Sen, successfully completed Year 1 of a project with the US Army through its Scalable Adaptive Resilient Autonomy Program (SARA) to develop and demonstrate a risk-aware autonomous ground vehicle that was capable of navigating safely in complex off-road test conditions.
[ GE Research ]
Here's one way to add some safety to your industrial robot, I guess?
[ Kuka ]
Okay but seriously how is a kitchen “fully robotic” if you have to do all the prep and cleaning?
Also you left all the good stuff in the pot.
[ Moley ]
Here are a couple of videos showing some recent research from the Brussels Human Robotics Research Center (BruBotics); check the YouTube descriptions for paper references.
[ BruBotics ]
Thanks, Bram!
A Michigan Robotics Colloquium, hosted by the Robotics Graduate Student Council (RGSC), was held on July 27, 2021 about assistive technologies.
[ Michigan Robotics ] Continue reading
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#439564 Video Friday: NASA Sending Robots to ...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers.
It’s ICRA this week, but since the full proceedings are not yet available, we’re going to wait until we can access everything to cover the conference properly. Or, as properly as we can not being in Xi’an right now.
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!):
RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event]
RSS 2021 – July 12-16, 2021 – [Online Event]
Humanoids 2020 – July 19-21, 2021 – [Online Event]
DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA
WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USA
IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event]
ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA
Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.
NASA has selected the DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble-gases, Chemistry and Imaging +) mission as part of its Discovery program, and it will be the first spacecraft to enter the Venus atmosphere since NASA’s Pioneer Venus in 1978 and USSR’s Vega in 1985.
The mission, Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus, will consist of a spacecraft and a probe. The spacecraft will track motions of the clouds and map surface composition by measuring heat emission from Venus’ surface that escapes to space through the massive atmosphere. The probe will descend through the atmosphere, sampling its chemistry as well as the temperature, pressure, and winds. The probe will also take the first high-resolution images of Alpha Regio, an ancient highland twice the size of Texas with rugged mountains, looking for evidence that past crustal water influenced surface materials.
Launch is targeted for FY2030.
[ NASA ]
Skydio has officially launched their 3D Scan software, turning our favorite fully autonomous drone into a reality capture system.
Skydio held a launch event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the keynote is online; it's actually a fairly interesting 20 minutes with some cool rockets thrown in for good measure.
[ Skydio ]
Space robotics is a key technology for space exploration and an enabling factor for future missions, both scientific and commercial. Underwater tests are a valuable tool for validating robotic technologies for space. In DFKI’s test basin, even large robots can be tested in simulated micro-gravity with mostly unrestricted range of motion.
[ DFKI ]
The Harvard Microrobotics Lab has developed a soft robotic hand with dexterous soft fingers capable of some impressive in-hand manipulation, starting (obviously) with a head of broccoli.
Training soft robots in simulation has been a bit of a challenge, but the researchers developed their own simulation framework that matches the real world pretty closely:
The simulation framework is avilable to download and use, and you can do some nutty things with it, like simulating tentacle basketball:
I’d pay to watch that IRL.
[ Paper ] via [ Harvard ]
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover this movie of clouds just after sunset on March 28, 2021, the 3,072nd so, or Martian day, of the mission. These noctilucent, or twilight clouds, are made of water ice; ice crystals reflect the setting sun, allowing the detail in each cloud to be seen more easily.
[ JPL ]
Genesis Robotics is working on something, and that's all we know.
[ Genesis Robotics ]
To further improve the autonomous capabilities of future space robots and to advance European efforts in this field, the European Union funded the ADE project, which was completed recently in Wulsbüttel near Bremen. There, the rover “SherpaTT” of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) managed to autonomously cover a distance of 500 meters in less than three hours thanks to the successful collaboration of 14 European partners.
[ DFKI ]
For $6.50, a NEXTAGE robot will make an optimized coffee for you. In Japan, of course.
[ Impress ]
Things I’m glad a robot is doing so that I don’t have to: dross skimming.
[ Fanuc ]
Today, anyone can hail a ride to experience the Waymo Driver with our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One. Riders Ben and Ida share their experience on one of their recent multi-stop rides. Watch as they take us along for a ride.
[ Waymo ]
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Town Hall 2021 featured discussion around Diversity & Inclusion, RAS CARES committee & Code of Conduct, Gender Diversity, and the Developing Country Faculty Engagement Program.
[ IEEE RAS ] Continue reading
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#439551 Video Friday: Drone Refueling
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!):
RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event]
RSS 2021 – July 12-16, 2021 – [Online Event]
Humanoids 2020 – July 19-21, 2021 – [Online Event]
RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event]
DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA
WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USA
IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event]
ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA
Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.
The MQ-25 T1 test asset has flown into the history books as the first unmanned aircraft to ever refuel another aircraft—piloted or autonomous—during flight.
[ Boeing ]
WomBot is an exploratory robot for monitoring wombat burrows, and the press release for it included this rather disappointing video of WomBot discovering a wombat in its burrow.
Apparently that’s what the butt of a dirt-covered wombat looks like. Here is a much more exciting video of an entirely different wombat burrow exploring robot where you get the wombat payoff that you deserve:
[ Paper ]
During the dark of night, using LiDAR for eyes, Cassie Blue is operating fully autonomously on the University of Michigan Wave Field. The terrain is challenging and was not pre-mapped.
For more on what they've been up to over at the University of Michigan, here’s a talk from them at the ICRA 2021 Workshop on Legged Robots.
[ Michigan Robotics ]
Thanks, Jessy!
The new Genesis LiveDrive LDD 1800 Series is a new high-torque direct-drive actuator. No gearbox!
[ Genesis ]
This Counter-Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) from DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program may look like it shot out a net and missed, but it was actually firing a bunch of sticky streamers that tangle up motors and whatnot. Festive and crashy!
[ Genesis ]
Learn about this year’s Kuka Innovation Award from some of the teams and judges, some of whom need a haircut more badly than others.
[ KUKA ]
20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong” is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend out of the Box.”
For a robot unboxing, that’s actually pretty good. Like, it arrives with a charged battery!
[ EW ]
The robot will serve you now! And it will do so without making a huge mess, thanks to folks from the University of Naples Federico II in Italy.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Mario!
Over the past year ABB has committed to supporting diversity and inclusion amongst all of our team members, partners and suppliers. To kick off our celebration of Pride Month, Yumi put on the pride flag to show ABB’s commitment to the LGBTQ+ community.
[ ABB ]
How it’s made: surgical masks.
[ Genik ]
Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats—Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary—Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to planet Earth.
[ ESA ]
The goal of the EU-funded project ADIR was to demonstrate the feasibility of a key technology for next generation urban mining. Specifically, the project investigated the automated disassembly of electronic equipment to separate and recover valuable materials.
[ ADIR ]
NASA’s Resilient Autonomy activity is developing autonomous software for potential use in aircraft ranging from general aviation retrofit to future autonomous aircraft. This simulator footage shows iGCAS, or improved GCAS, save a small aircraft from diving into a canyon, into the side of a mountain, or into the ground.
[ NASA ]
Mess with the Cocobo security robot at your peril.
[ Impress ]
I thought the whole point of growing rice in flooded fields was that you avoided weed problems, but I guess there are enough semi-aquatic weeds that it can be handy to have a little robot boat that drives around stirring up mud to surpress weed growth.
[ Robotstart ]
We present experimental work on traversing steep, granular slopes with the dynamically walking quadrupedal robot SpaceBok. We validate static and dynamic locomotion with two different foot types (point foot and passive-adaptive planar foot) on Mars analog slopes of up to 25°(the maximum of the testbed).
[ Paper ]
You'll have to suffer through a little bit of German for this one, but you'll be rewarded with a pretty slick flying wing at the end.
[ BFW ]
Thanks, Fan!
Have you ever wondered whether the individual success metrics prevalent in robotics create perverse incentives that harm the long-term needs of the field? Or if the development of high-stakes autonomous systems warrants taking significant risks with real-world deployment to accelerate progress? Are the standards for experimental validation insufficient to ensure that published robotics methods work in the real world? We have all the answers!
[ Robotics Debates ] Continue reading
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