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ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Could 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Could 2025, ATLANTA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Could 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Vitality Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
ETH Robotics Summer season Faculty: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
IAS 2025: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY
ICRES 2025: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS
CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN
CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL
IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL
World Robotic Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN
IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Take pleasure in in the present day’s movies!
All through the course of the previous yr, LEVA has been designed from the bottom up as a novel robotic to move payloads. Though the usage of robotics is widespread in logistics, few options provide the potential to effectively transport payloads each in managed and unstructured environments. 4-legged robots are perfect for navigating any atmosphere a human can, but few have the options to autonomously transfer payloads. That is the place LEVA shines. By combining each wheels (a way of locomotion ideally fitted to quick and exact movement on flat surfaces) and legs (that are good for traversing any terrain that people can), LEVA strikes a steadiness that makes it extremely versatile.
[ LEVA ]
You’ve most likely heard about this humanoid robotic half-marathon in China, as a result of it received lots of media consideration, which I presume was the objective. And for these of us who bear in mind when Asimo working was an enormous deal, marathon working continues to be spectacular in some sense. It’s simply laborious to attach that to those robots doing something sensible, you already know?
[ NBC ]
A robotic navigating an out of doors atmosphere with no prior information of the area should depend on its native sensing to understand its environment and plan. This will come within the type of an area metric map or native coverage with some mounted horizon. Past that, there’s a fog of unknown area marked with some mounted value. On this work, we make a key statement that long-range navigation solely necessitates figuring out good frontier instructions for planning as an alternative of full-map information. To this finish, we suggest the Lengthy Vary Navigator (LRN), which learns an intermediate affordance illustration mapping high-dimensional digital camera pictures to reasonably priced frontiers for planning, after which optimizing for optimum alignment with the specified objective. By in depth off-road experiments on Spot and a Huge Automobile, we discover that augmenting present navigation stacks with LRN reduces human interventions at take a look at time and results in quicker choice making indicating the relevance of LRN.
[ LRN ]
Goby is a compact, succesful, programmable, and low-cost robotic that permits you to uncover miniature worlds from its tiny perspective.
On Kickstarter now, for an absurdly low-cost US $80.
[ Kickstarter ]
Thanks, Wealthy!
HEBI robots demonstrated inchworm mobility in the course of the Innovation Faire of the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks, Andrew!
Glad Easter from Flexiv!
[ Flexiv ]
We’re excited to current our proprietary reinforcement studying algorithm, refined via in depth simulations and huge coaching information, enabling our full-scale humanoid robotic, Adam, to grasp humanlike locomotion. In contrast to model-based gait management, our RL-driven method grants Adam distinctive adaptability. On difficult terrains like uneven surfaces, Adam seamlessly adjusts stride, tempo, and steadiness in actual time, making certain steady, pure motion whereas boosting effectivity and security. The algorithm additionally delivers fluid, sleek movement with clean joint coordination, minimizing mechanical put on, extending operational life, and considerably decreasing vitality use for enhanced endurance.
[ PNDbotics ]
Contained in the GRASP Lab—Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab. Our analysis facilities on management, studying, planning, and evaluation of robots as they work together with the world. Whether or not a robotic is aiding inside the residence or working in a producing plant, the elemental promise of robotics requires touching and affecting a posh atmosphere in a secure and managed trend. We’re centered on growing computationally tractable and information environment friendly algorithms that allow robots to function each dynamically and safely as they shortly maneuver via and work together with their environments.
[ DAIR Lab ]
I’ll by no means perceive why robotics firms really feel the necessity to add the sounds of sick actuators when their robots transfer.
[ Kepler ]
Be part of Matt Trossen, founding father of Trossen Robotics, on a time-traveling teardown via the evolution of our robotic arms! On this deep dive, Matt unboxes the ghosts of robots previous—sharing behind-the-scenes tales, daring design selections, classes discovered, and the way the business itself has shifted gears.
[ Trossen ]
This week’s Carnegie Mellon College Robotics Institute (CMU RI) seminar is a retro version (2008!) from Charlie Kemp, beforehand of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech and now at Howdy Robotic.
[ CMU RI ]
This week’s precise CMU RI seminar is from a way more trendy model of Charlie Kemp.
After I began in robotics, my objective was to assist robots emulate people. But as my lab labored with individuals with mobility impairments, my notions of success modified. For assistive functions, emulation of people is much less necessary than ease of use and usefulness. Serving to with seemingly easy duties, resembling scratching an itch or choosing up a dropped object, could make a significant distinction in an individual’s life. Even full autonomy may be undesirable, since actively directing a robotic can present a way of independence and company. Total, many advantages of robotic help derive from nonhuman points of robots, resembling being tireless, instantly controllable, and freed from social traits that may inhibit use.
Whereas technical challenges abound for residence robots that try and emulate people, I’ll present proof that human-scale cell manipulators may gain advantage individuals with mobility impairments at residence within the close to future. I’ll describe work from my lab and Howdy Robotic that illustrates alternatives for valued help at residence, together with supporting actions of every day dwelling, main train video games, and strengthening social connections. I can even current latest progress by Howdy Robotic towards unsupervised, every day in-home use by an individual with extreme mobility impairments.
[ CMU RI ]
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