#435750 Video Friday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ...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): RSS 2019 – June 22-26, 2019 – Freiburg, GermanyHamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics – June 23-26, 2019 – London, U.K.ETH Robotics Summer School – June 27-1, 2019 – Zurich, SwitzerlandMARSS 2019 – July 1-5, 2019 – Helsinki, FinlandICRES 2019 – July 29-30, 2019 – London, U.K.Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. Last week at the re:MARS conference, Amazon CEO and aspiring supervillain Jeff Bezos tried out this pair of dexterous robotic hands, which he described as “weirdly natural” to operate. The system combines Shadow Robot’s anthropomorphic robot hands with SynTouch’s biomimetic tactile sensors and HaptX’s haptic feedback gloves. After playing with the robot, Bezos let out his trademark evil laugh. [ Shadow Robot ]
[ DJI ] It’s very impressive to see DLR’s humanoid robot Toro dynamically balancing, even while being handed heavy objects, pushing things, and using multi-contact techniques to kick a fire extinguisher for some reason. The paper is in RA-L, and you can find it at the link below. Thanks Maximo! Is it just me, or does the Suzumori Endo Robotics Laboratory’s Super Dragon arm somehow just keep getting longer?
From what I can make out thanks to Google Translate, this cute little robot duck (developed by Nissan) helps minimize weeds in rice fields by stirring up the water. [ Nippon.com ] Confidence in your robot is when you can just casually throw it off of a balcony 15 meters up. [ SUTD ] You had me at “we’re going to completely submerge this apple in chocolate syrup.” In the mid 2020s, the European Space Agency is planning on sending a robotic sample return mission to the Moon. It’s called Heracles, after the noted snake-strangler of Greek mythology. [ ESA ] Rethink Robotics is still around, they’re just much more German than before. And Sawyer is still hard at work stealing jobs from humans. [ Rethink Robotics ] The reason to watch this new video of the Ghost Robotics Vision 60 quadruped is for the 3 seconds worth of barrel roll about 40 seconds in. [ Ghost Robotics ] This is a relatively low-altitude drop for Squishy Robotics’ tensegrity scout, but it still cool to watch a robot that’s resilient enough to be able to fall and just not worry about it. [ Squishy Robotics ]
I think all robot videos should be required to start with two “oops” clips followed by a “for real now” clip. [ Apptronik ] SAKE’s EZGripper manages to pick up a wrench, and also pick up a raspberry without turning it into instajam. [ SAKE Robotics ] And now: the robotic long-tongued piggy, courtesy Sony Toio. [ Toio ]
A flapping-wing system with manipulation and human interaction capabilities, you say? I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. [ GRVC ] KITECH’s robotic hands and arms can manipulate, among other things, five boxes of Elmos. I’m not sure about the conversion of Elmos to Snuffleupaguses, although it turns out that one Snuffleupagus is exactly 1,000 pounds. [ Ji-Hun Bae ] The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) has been working on agricultural robots for almost a decade, and this video sums up a bunch of the stuff that they’ve been doing, even if it’s more amusing than practical at times. [ ACFR ] ROS 2 is great for multi-robot coordination, like when you need your bubble level to stay really, really level. We don’t hear iRobot CEO Colin Angle give a lot of talks, so this recent one (from Amazon’s re:MARS conference) is definitely worth a listen, especially considering how much innovation we’ve seen from iRobot recently.
[ iRobot ] In the latest episode of Robots in Depth, Per speaks with Federico Pecora from the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University in Sweden.
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