#437765 Video Friday: Massive Robot Joins ...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!): AWS Cloud Robotics Summit – August 18-19, 2020 – [Online Conference]CLAWAR 2020 – August 24-26, 2020 – [Virtual Conference]ICUAS 2020 – September 1-4, 2020 – Athens, GreeceICRES 2020 – September 28-29, 2020 – Taipei, TaiwanIROS 2020 – October 25-29, 2020 – Las Vegas, NevadaICSR 2020 – November 14-16, 2020 – Golden, ColoradoLet us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. Here are some professional circus artists messing around with an industrial robot for fun, like you do. The acrobats are part of Östgötateatern, a Swedish theatre group, and the chair bit got turned into its own act, called “The Last Fish.” But apparently the Swedish Work Environment Authority didn’t like that an industrial robot—a large ABB robotic arm—was being used in an artistic performance, arguing that the same safety measures that apply in a factory setting would apply on stage. In other words, the robot had to operate inside a protective cage and humans could not physically interact with it. When told that their robot had to be removed, the acrobats went to court. And won! At least that’s what we understand from this Swedish press release. The court in Linköping, in southern Sweden, ruled that the safety measures taken by the theater had been sufficient. The group had worked with a local robotics firm, Dyno Robotics, to program the manipulator and learn how to interact with it as safely as possible. The robot—which the acrobats say is the eighth member of their troupe—will now be allowed to return. [ Östgötateatern ] Houston Mechathronics’ Aquanaut continues to be awesome, even in the middle of a pandemic. It’s taken the big step (big swim?) out of NASA’s swimming pool and into open water. [ HMI ]
[ CMU ] Cassie manages 2.1 m/s, which is uncomfortably fast in a couple of different ways. Next, untethered. After that, running!
[ Caltech ] Fetch Robotics’ Freight robot is now hauling around pulsed xenon UV lamps to autonomously disinfect spaces with UV-A, UV-B, and UV-C, all at the same time. [ SmartGuard UV ] When you’re a vertically symmetrical quadruped robot, there is no upside-down. [ Ghost Robotics ]
[ EPFL ] Through the simple trick of reversing motors on impact, a quadrotor can land much more reliably on slopes. [ Sherbrooke ] Turtlebot delivers candy at Harvard. I <3 Turtlebot SO MUCH [ Harvard ] Traditional drone controllers are a little bit counterintuitive, because there’s one stick that’s forwards and backwards and another stick that’s up and down but they’re both moving on the same axis. How does that make sense?! Here’s a remote that gives you actual z-axis control instead. [ Fenics ] Thanks Ashley!
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Jeannette Bohg, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, gave one of the Early Career Award Keynotes at RSS 2020. [ RSS 2020 ] Adam Savage remembers Grant Imahara. [ Tested ]
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