#439299 Video Friday: Drone RefuelingVideo 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, 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.
[ 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 ]
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. 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 ]
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!
[ ABB ] How it’s made: surgical masks. [ Genik ]
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[ 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 ]
[ 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 ] |
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