#437749 Video Friday: NASA Launches Its Most ...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 – [Virtual Conference]CLAWAR 2020 – August 24-26, 2020 – [Virtual Conference]ICUAS 2020 – September 1-4, 2020 – Athens, GreeceICRES 2020 – September 28-29, 2020 – Taipei, TaiwanAUVSI EXPONENTIAL 2020 – October 5-8, 2020 – [Virtual Conference]IROS 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. Yesterday was a big day for what was quite possibly the most expensive robot on Earth up until it wasn’t on Earth anymore. Perseverance and the Ingenuity helicopter are expected to arrive on Mars early next year. [ JPL ] ICYMI, our most popular post this week featured Northeastern University roboticist John Peter Whitney literally putting his neck on the line for science! He was testing a remotely operated straight razor shaving robotic system powered by fluidic actuators. The cutting-edge (sorry!) device transmits forces from a primary stage, operated by a barber, to a secondary stage, with the razor attached.
Not shown in the video: “At times, Fluffy sits on its robotic haunches and rides on the back of a small, round Autonomous Mobile Robot, known informally as Scouter. Scouter glides smoothly up and down the aisles of the plant, allowing Fluffy to conserve battery power until it’s time to get to work. Scouter can autonomously navigate facilities while scanning and capturing 3-D point clouds to generate a CAD of the facility. If an area is too tight for Scouter, Fluffy comes to the rescue.” [ Ford ] There is a thing that happens at 0:28 in this video that I have questions about. [ Ghost Robotics ] Pepper is far more polite about touching than most humans. [ Paper ] We don’t usually post pure simulation videos unless they give us something to get really, really excited about. So here’s a pure simulation video. [ Hybrid Robotics ]
[ DRSL ] HMI is making beastly electric arms work underwater, even if they’re not stapled to a robotic submarine. [ HMI ] Here’s some interesting work in progress from MIT’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The limb is acting as a "virtual magnet" using a bimodal force and direction sensor. Thanks Peter! This is adorable but as a former rabbit custodian I can assure you that approximately 3 seconds after this video ended, all of the wires on that robot were chewed to bits. [ Lingkang Zhang ]
[ RSL ] When we talk about practical applications quadrupedal robots with foot wheels, we don’t usually think about them on this scale, although we should. [ RSL ] Juan wrote in to share a DIY quadruped that he’s been working on, named CHAMP. Juan says that the demo robot can be built in less than US $1000 with easily accessible parts. “I hope that my project can provide a more accessible platform for students, researchers, and enthusiasts who are interested to learn more about quadrupedal robot development and its underlying technology.” [ CHAMP ] Thanks Juan! Here’s a New Zealand TV report about a study on robot abuse from Christoph Bartneck at the University of Canterbury. [ Paper ]
[ Columbia ] A few videos from the Supernumerary Robotic Devices Workshop, held online earlier this month. “Handheld Robots: Bridging the Gap between Fully External and Wearable Robots,” presented by Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, University of Bristol. “Playing the Piano with 11 Fingers: The Neurobehavioural Constraints of Human Robot Augmentation,” presented by Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London. [ Workshop ]
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