#439471 Video Friday: Android Printing
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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 ( 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. Designing an actuated android face is complicated and time consuming, but Hiroshi Ishiguro's lab has come up with a system to use a multi-material 3D printer to produce an android head (including skin and mechanical components) all at once. Just shove an actuator pack in the back, and you're good to go.
With 31 degrees of freedom, the idea is that you'd be able to quickly iterate on designs without having to do a bunch of actuator adjustments at the same time.
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In preparation for the previous video, Cassie ran a 5k on a turf field, clocking in a (world record?) time of 43:59.
[ GITAI's prototype lunar rover testing regimen is amazing and ridiculous—and definitely watch until the end.
Please do all of this stuff on the moon. Please?
[ My advice: mute this video and use the following video as a soundtrack starting at about 50 seconds in.
[ We all know that in theory, a repetitive motion from a fixed position is not all that hard for robots. But there's a lot of air to cover between the half line and the hoop, right?
[ Thanks, Harry! Here's some super cool research presented at RSS, showing some highly dexterous fingertips made of tiny delta robots.
[ If you missed the drone show at the Olympics opening ceremony, it was sufficiently impressive, with 1824 drones in attendance.
I'm pretty sure I saw at least one drone falling out of the sky, though.
[ The question with UBTECH's Walker X is whether it's going to be another ASIMO (cool to watch but doesn't do much), or something that's, you know, useful.
[ We usually think of telepresence as one operator and one robot, but the efficient thing to do is have a human who can be sometimes in the loop for a bunch of different robots. Here's a good start.
[ Thanks, Fan! This is a little weird, but I like it!
[ Thanks, Fan! When you've got too many drones on your drone.
[ Good to see Relay out there Relaying.
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[ I will once again point out that if a kitchen robot can't do prep or cleanup, I don't consider it to be all that useful.
[ Pro tip: You can always tell when someone is trying to sell something to the military when it has generic hard rock as its soundtrack.
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[ I'd suggest skipping through the vast majority of this domino robot video, but the bits where they actually talk about the mechanical stuff are interesting.
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