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Get pleasure from at present’s movies!
This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gasoline, proper off the 3D-printer. It will also be printed in a single go, from one materials. Researchers from the College of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robotic in a sophisticated on-line publication within the journal Superior Intelligent Systems. They used the only know-how out there: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design strategy shouldn’t be solely strong, additionally it is low-cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.
And particulars!
[ Paper ] through [ University of California San Diego ]
Why would you like a humanoid robot to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I assume, but it surely’s laborious to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle mass that we do will transfer optimally by simply making an attempt to imitate us.
[ Figure ]
I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little tender robotic worm by some means strikes with an unimaginable quantity of character.
Soft actuators are vital for enabling soft robots, medical devices, and haptic techniques. Many tender actuators, nevertheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on laborious circuitry for management, limiting their potential functions. On this work, the primary tender electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.
[ Paper ] through [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Ellen!
A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this have been a human doing it.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
My colleagues have been impressed by this cooking robotic, however which may be as a result of journalists are at all times impressed by free meals.
[ Posha ]
That is our newest work a couple of hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robotic referred to as SPIDAR, which reveals distinctive and sophisticated locomotion kinds in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been offered within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2024.
[ Paper ] through [ Dragon Lab ]
Thanks, Moju!
This contemporary, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck pace of humanoid intelligence development. Each day brings one thing thrilling!
[ Unitree ]
There needs to be extra robots that you would be able to experience round on.
[ AgileX Robotics ]
There needs to be extra robots that put on hats at work.
[ Ugo ]
iRobot, who pioneered big docks for robot vacuums, is now shifting away from big docks for robotic vacuums.
[ iRobot ]
There’s a well-known experiment the place in case you put a useless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. In some way, you are able to do the identical factor with an unactuated quadruped robotic on a treadmill.
[ Delft University of Technology ]
Mush! Narrowly!
[ Hybrid Robotics ]
It’s freaking me out a bit of bit that this couple is outwardly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and nil different people.
[ MagicLab ]
I’m making an attempt, I actually am, however the yellow is simply not working for me.
[ Kepler ]
By having Stretch tackle the bodily demanding job of unloading trailers stacked flooring to ceiling with containers, Hole Inc has diminished accidents, lowered turnover, and watched workers get enthusiastic about automation meant to maintain them secure.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to raised perceive the previous and current habitability of the Pink Planet. Of specific curiosity to its search are organic molecules: the constructing blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone referred to as “Cumberland,” the biggest organics but found on Mars.
[ NASA ]
This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Foundation Models.
Normal-purpose pretrained fashions have remodeled natural language processing, computer vision, and different fields. In precept, such approaches needs to be best in robotics: since gathering giant quantities of information for any given robotic platform and software is prone to be tough, common pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current a great recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world functions.
From the angle of common AI analysis, such approaches additionally supply a promising and intriguing strategy to a few of the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present numerous bodily capabilities, this may shed gentle not solely on the sensible questions round designing broadly succesful robots, however the foundations of located problem-solving, bodily understanding, and resolution making. Nonetheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with a variety of difficult obstacles. What knowledge we could use to coach robotic basis fashions? What would be the coaching goal? How ought to alignment or post-training be achieved? On this discuss, I’ll talk about how we are able to strategy a few of these challenges.
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