Your weekly collection of superior robotic movies
Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Might 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Vitality Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
ETH Robotics Summer season College: 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, NETHERLANDS
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This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed fuel, 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 complicated on-line publication within the journal Superior Clever Programs. They used the only expertise obtainable: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design strategy just isn’t solely sturdy, it is usually low cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.
And particulars!
[ Paper ] by way of [ University of California San Diego ]
Why would you like a humanoid robotic to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I suppose, but it surely’s onerous to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle tissue that we do will transfer optimally by simply attempting to imitate us.
[ Figure ]
I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little comfortable robotic worm in some way strikes with an unbelievable quantity of character.
Delicate actuators are important for enabling comfortable robots, medical units, and haptic programs. Many comfortable actuators, nonetheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on onerous circuitry for management, limiting their potential purposes. On this work, the primary comfortable electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Ellen!
A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this had been a human doing it.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
My colleagues had been impressed by this cooking robotic, however which may be as a result of journalists are all the time 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 complicated locomotion types in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been offered within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Analysis (ISRR) 2024.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Dragon Lab ]
Thanks, Moju!
This recent, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck pace of humanoid intelligence development. Each day brings one thing thrilling!
[ Unitree ]
There must be extra robots that you would be able to experience round on.
[ AgileX Robotics ]
There must be extra robots that put on hats at work.
[ Ugo ]
iRobot, who pioneered big docks for robotic vacuums, is now shifting away from big docks for robotic vacuums.
[ iRobot ]
There’s a well-known experiment the place should you put a lifeless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. By some means, 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 somewhat bit that this couple is seemingly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and nil different people.
[ MagicLab ]
I’m attempting, 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 bins, Hole Inc has diminished accidents, lowered turnover, and watched workers get enthusiastic about automation supposed 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 higher perceive the previous and current habitability of the Crimson Planet. Of explicit curiosity to its search are natural 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 most important organics but found on Mars.
[ NASA ]
This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Basis Fashions.
Normal-purpose pretrained fashions have remodeled pure language processing, laptop imaginative and prescient, and different fields. In precept, such approaches must be ideally suited in robotics: since gathering massive quantities of information for any given robotic platform and software is prone to be tough, basic pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current an excellent recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world purposes.
From the angle of basic AI analysis, such approaches additionally supply a promising and intriguing strategy to among the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present various bodily capabilities, this could 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. Nevertheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with quite a lot 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 finished? On this speak, I’ll focus on how we will strategy a few of these challenges.
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