#435828 Video Friday: Boston Dynamics’ ...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!): RoboBusiness 2019 – October 1-3, 2019 – Santa Clara, Calif., USAISRR 2019 – October 6-10, 2019 – Hanoi, VietnamRo-Man 2019 – October 14-18, 2019 – New Delhi, IndiaHumanoids 2019 – October 15-17, 2019 – Toronto, CanadaARSO 2019 – October 31-1, 2019 – Beijing, ChinaROSCon 2019 – October 31-1, 2019 – MacauIROS 2019 – November 4-8, 2019 – MacauLet us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. You’ve almost certainly seen the new Spot and Atlas videos from Boston Dynamics, if for no other reason than we posted about Spot’s commercial availability earlier this week. But what, are we supposed to NOT include them in Video Friday anyway? Psh! Here you go: [ Boston Dynamics ] Eight deadly-looking robots. One Giant Nut trophy. Tonight is the BattleBots season finale, airing on Discovery, 8 p.m. ET, or check your local channels. [ BattleBots ] Thanks Trey! Speaking of battling robots… Having giant robots fight each other is one of those things that sounds really great in theory, but doesn’t work out so well in reality. And sadly, MegaBots is having to deal with reality, which means putting their giant fighting robot up on eBay. As of Friday afternoon, the current bid is just over $100,000 with a week to go. [ MegaBots ] Michigan Engineering has figured out the secret formula to getting 150,000 views on YouTube: drone plus nail gun. Michael Burke from the University of Edinburgh writes:
[ Paper ] via [ Robust Autonomy and Decisions Group ] Thanks Michael! Hey look, it’s Jan with eight EMYS robot heads. Hi, Jan! Hi, EMYSes! [ EMYS ]
[ UBTECH ] Some impressive work here from Anusha Nagabandi, Kurt Konoglie, Sergey Levine, Vikash Kumar at Google Brain, training a dexterous multi-fingered hand to do that thing with two balls that I’m really bad at.
[ PDDM ] Thanks Vikash! CMU’s Ballbot has a deceptively light touch that’s ideal for leading people around. A paper on this has been submitted to IROS 2019. [ CMU ] The Autonomous Robots Lab at the University of Nevada is sharing some of the work they’ve done on path planning and exploration for aerial robots during the DARPA SubT Challenge. More proof that anything can be a drone if you staple some motors to it. Even 32 feet of styrofoam insulation. [ YouTube ] Whatever you think of military drones, we can all agree that they look cool. [ Boeing ] I appreciate the fact that iCub has eyelids, I really do, but sometimes, it ends up looking kinda sleepy in research videos. [ EPFL LASA ]
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[ Misty Robotics ] This week’s CMU RI Seminar comes from Aaron Parness at Caltech and NASA JPL, on “Robotic Grippers for Planetary Applications.”
[ CMU ] Rod Brooks gives some of the best robotics talks ever. He gave this one earlier this week at UC Berkeley, on “Steps Toward Super Intelligence and the Search for a New Path.” [ UC Berkeley ]
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