#437857 Video Friday: Robotic Third Hand Helps ...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!): ICRA 2020 – June 1-15, 2020 – [Virtual Conference]RSS 2020 – July 12-16, 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, TaiwanICSR 2020 – November 14-16, 2020 – Golden, ColoradoLet us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. We are seeing some exciting advances in the development of supernumerary robotic limbs. But one thing about this technology remains a major challenge: How do you control the extra limb if your own hands are busy—say, if you’re carrying a package? MIT researchers at Professor Harry Asada’s lab have an idea. They are using subtle finger movements in sensorized gloves to control the supernumerary limb. The results are promising, and they’ve demonstrated a waist-mounted arm with a qb SoftHand that can help you with doors, elevators, and even handshakes. [ Paper ] ROBOPANDA
[ Paper ] And now: “Magnetic cilia carpets.” [ ETH Zurich ]
They should have programmed it to nod if your temperature was normal, and smacked you upside the head while yelling “GO HOME” if it wasn’t. [ Yaskawa ] Driving slowly on pre-defined routes, ZMP’s RakuRo autonomous vehicle helps people with mobility challenges enjoy cherry blossoms in Japan. RakuRo costs about US $1,000 per month to rent, but ZMP suggests that facilities or groups of ~10 people could get together and share one, which makes the cost much more reasonable. [ ZMP ] Jessy Grizzle from the Dynamic Legged Locomotion Lab at the University of Michigan writes:
Thanks Jesse and Bruce! You can tell that this video of how Pepper has been useful during COVID-19 is not focused on the United States, since it refers to the pandemic in past tense.
[ NASA ] This could be the most impressive robotic gripper demo I have ever seen. [ Soft Robotics ]
About 40 seconds into this video, a robot briefly chases a goose. [ Ghost Robotics ]
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From the ICRA 2020, a debate on the “Future of Robotics Research,” addressing such issues as “robotics research is over-reliant on benchmark datasets and simulation” and “robots designed for personal or household use have failed because of fundamental misunderstandings of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).” [ Robotics Debates ] MassRobotics has a series of interviews where robotics celebrities are interviewed by high school students.The students are perhaps a little awkward (remember being in high school?), but it’s honest and the questions are interesting. The first two interviews are with Laurie Leshin, who worked on space robots at NASA and is now President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Colin Angle, founder and CEO of iRobot. [ MassRobotics ] Thanks Andrew!
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