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Enjoy today’s videos!
One of the most venerable (and recognizable) mobile robots ever created, the Husky, just got a major upgrade.
Shipping early next year.
[ Clearpath Robotics ]
MAB Robotics develops leg robots for the inspection and maintenance of industrial infrastructure. One of the first areas for the deployment of this technology is underground infrastructure, such as water and sewer channels. In these environments, resistance to factors such as high humidity and working underwater is essential. To address these challenges, the MAB team built a walking robot that can work completely underwater, based on exceptional self-developed robotics actuators. This innovation overcomes the limitations of current technologies and offers MAB’s first customers a unique service for trenchless inspection and maintenance tasks.
[ MAB Robotics ]
Thanks, Jakub!
The G1 robot can make a standing long jump of up to 1.4 meters, possibly the longest jump ever made by a humanoid robot of its size in the world, standing just 1.32 meters tall.
[ Unitree Robotics ]
Apparently you can print a functional four-fingered hand on an inkjet printer.
[ UC Berkeley ]
We present SDS (“See it. Do it. Sorted.”), a novel pipeline for intuitively learning quadrupedal skills from a single demonstration video, taking advantage of the visual capabilities of GPT-4o. We validate our method on the Unitree Go1 robot and demonstrate its ability to perform variable skills such as trotting, bounding, pacing and jumping, achieving high imitation fidelity and locomotion stability.
[ Robot Perception Lab, University College London ]
You had me at ‘3D desk octopus’.
[ UIST 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ]
Top notch swag from Dusty Robotics
[ Dusty Robotics ]
I’m not sure how serious this shoes versus no-shoes test is, but it’s an interesting result nonetheless.
[ Robot Era ]
Thanks, Ni Tao!
Introducing TRON 1, the first multimodal bipedal robot! With its innovative “Three-In-One” modular design, TRON 1 can easily switch between Point-Foot, Sole and Wheeled foot ends.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
Recent work in the robot learning community has successfully introduced generalist models capable of controlling different robot executions for a wide range of tasks, such as navigation and locomotion. However, achieving agile control, which pushes the limits of robot performance, still relies on specialized models that require extensive parameter tuning. To leverage the adaptability and flexibility of the generalist model while achieving specialist-level agility, we propose AnyCar, a transformer-based generalist dynamic model designed for flexible control of various wheeled robots.
[ AnyCar ]
Discover the future of aerial manipulation with our untethered soft robotic platform with built-in perception stack! This platform, presented at the 2024 Conference on Robot Learning in Munich, introduces autonomous aerial manipulation that works both indoors and outdoors – without relying on expensive external tracking systems.
[ Paper ] via [ ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Laboratory ]
Deploying perception modules for human-to-robot transfer is challenging because they require a high degree of reactivity, generalizability, and robustness to work reliably in a variety of cases. Here we demonstrate hardware handoff experiments using our efficient and object-agnostic real-time tracking framework, specifically designed for human-to-robot handoff tasks with legged manipulators.
[ Paper ] via [ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]
Azi and Ameca kill time, but Azi struggles with being the new kid on the block. Engineered Arts desktop robots feature 32 actuators, 27 for facial control only and 5 for the neck. They include AI conversation capabilities, including GPT-4o support, making them great robotic companions, even for each other. The robots follow a script for this video and use one of their many voices.
[ Engineered Arts ]
Plato automates carrying and transport, giving your staff more time to focus on what really matters, improving quality of life. With a simple installation that requires no markups or additional hardware, Plato is incredibly intuitive to use: no programming skills are required.
[ Aldebaran ]
This UPenn GRASP Lab seminar is from Antonio Loquercio, on “Simulation: What Made Us Intelligent Will Make Our Robots Intelligent.”
Simulation-to-reality transfer is an emerging approach that allows robots to develop skills in simulated environments before applying them in the real world. This method has catalyzed countless improvements in robot learning, from locomotion to agile flight. In this talk, I explore the transfer from simulation to reality through the lens of evolutionary biology, drawing intriguing parallels with the function of the mammalian neocortex. By reframing this technique in the context of biological evolution, we can uncover new research questions and explore how the transfer from simulation to reality can evolve from an empirically driven process to a scientific discipline.
[ University of Pennsylvania ]
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