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You might not be conversant in Swiss-Mile, however you’d virtually actually acknowledge its robotic: it’s the ANYmal with wheels on its ft that may do all types of fantastic issues. Swiss-Mile has simply introduced a seed spherical to commercialize these capabilities throughout quadrupedal platforms, together with Unitree’s, which suggests it’s even affordable-ish!
It’s at all times so cool to see spectacular robotics analysis transfer towards commercialization, and I’ve already began saving up for considered one of these of my very own.
[ Swiss-Mile ]
Thanks Marko!
This video presents the capabilities of PAL Robotics’ TALOS robotic because it demonstrates agile and sturdy strolling utilizing Mannequin Predictive Management (MPC) references despatched to a Complete-Physique Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde. The footage exhibits TALOS navigating numerous difficult terrains, together with stairs and slopes, whereas dealing with sudden disturbances and extra weight.
[ PAL Robotics ]
Thanks Lorna!
Do you need to create a spectacular bimanual manipulation demo? All it takes is that this teleoperation system and a fastidiously cropped digital camera shot! That is primarily based on the Cellular ALOHA system from Stanford that we featured in Video Friday final week.
[ AgileX ]
Wing remains to be making an attempt to make the drone-delivery factor work, and it’s received a brand new, greater drone to ship much more stuff without delay.
[ Wing ]
A whole lot of robotics analysis claims to be about search and rescue and catastrophe reduction, however it actually appears to be like like RSL’s ANYmal can truly pull it off.
And right here’s much more spectacular video, together with some element about how the system works.
[ Paper ]
This may be probably the most acceptable soundtrack for a robotic video that I’ve ever heard.
Snakes have lengthy captivated robotics researchers resulting from their efficient locomotion, versatile physique construction, and skill to adapt their pores and skin friction to totally different terrains. Whereas intensive analysis has delved into serpentine locomotion, there stays a niche in exploring rectilinear locomotion as a robotic answer for navigating by means of slender areas. On this examine, we describe the basic rules of rectilinear locomotion and apply them to design a delicate crawling robotic utilizing origami modules constructed from laminated materials.
[ SDU ]
We wrote about Fotokite’s modern tethered drone seven or eight years in the past, and it’s good to see the corporate remains to be doing stable work.
I do miss the buyer model, although.
[ Fotokite ]
[ JDP ] by way of [ Petapixel ]
That is SHIVAA the strawberry choosing robotic of DFKI Robotics Innovation Middle. The system is being developed within the RoLand (Robotic Techniques in Agriculture) undertaking, coordinated by the #RoboticsInnovationCenter (RIC) of the DFKI Bremen. Inside the undertaking we design and develop a semi-autonomous, cell system that’s able to harvesting strawberries impartial of human interplay.
[ DFKI ]
On December 6, 2023, Demarcus Edwards talked to Robotics college students as a speaker within the Undergraduate Robotics Pathways & Careers Speaker Sequence, which goals to reply the query: “What can I do with a robotics diploma?”
This film, Lack of Sensation, was launched in Russia in 1935. It appears to be the film that basically, actually irritated Karel Čapek, as a result of they made his “robots” into mechanical beings as a substitute of organic ones.
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