#437918 Video Friday: These Robots Wish You ...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!): ICCR 2020 – December 26-29, 2020 – [Online]HRI 2021 – March 8-11, 2021 – [Online]RoboSoft 2021 – April 12-16, 2021 – [Online]Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Look who’s baaaack: Jibo! After being sold (twice?), this pioneering social home robot (it was first announced back in 2014!) now belongs to NTT Disruption, which was described to us as the “disruptive company of NTT Group.” We are all for disruption, so this looks like a great new home for Jibo. [ NTT Disruption ] Thanks Ana! FZI's Christmas Party was a bit of a challenge this year; good thing robots are totally competent to have a part on their own. [ FZI ] Thanks Arne! Do you have a lonely dog that just wants a friend to watch cat videos on YouTube with? The Danish Technological Institute has a gift idea for you. [ DTI ] Thanks Samuel!
Of course, these elves are not now unemployed, they've instead moved over to toy design full time! [ Robotiq ] An elegant Christmas video from the Dynamics System Lab, make sure and watch through the very end for a little extra cheer. Thanks Angela! Usually I complain when robotics companies make holiday videos without any real robots in them, but this is pretty darn cute from Yaskawa this year. [ Yaskawa ]
[ TUM ] Happy Holidays from Fanuc! Okay but why does there have to be an assembly line elf just to put in those little cranks? [ Fanuc ] Astrobotic's cute little CubeRover is at NASA busy not getting stuck in places. [ Astrobotic ] Team CoSTAR is sharing more of their work on subterranean robotic exploration. [ CoSTAR ]
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[ GITAI ] It's no Atlas, but this is some impressive dynamic balancing from iCub. [ IIT ] The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and I don't agree on a lot of things, and I don't agree with a lot of the assumptions made in this video, either. But, here you go! [ CSKR ] I don't know much about this robot, but I love it. [ Columbia ] Most cable-suspended robots have a very well defined workspace, but you can increase that workspace by swinging them around. Wheee! [ Laval ] How you know your robot's got some skill: "to evaluate the performance in climbing over the step, we compared the R.L. result to the results of 12 students who attempted to find the best planning. The RL outperformed all the group, in terms of effort and time, both in continuous (joystick) and partition planning." [ Zarrouk Lab ]
[ MIT ] Well, this thing is still around! [ Moley Robotics ] Manuel Ahumada wrote in to share this robotic Baby Yoda that he put together with a little bit of help from Intel's OpenBot software. [ YouTube ] Thanks Manuel! Here's what Zoox has been working on for the past half-decade. [ Zoox ]
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