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At ICRA 2024, in Tokyo final Might, we sat down with the director of Shadow Robotic, Wealthy Walker, to speak concerning the journey in direction of growing their latest mannequin. Designed for reinforcement studying, the hand is extraordinarily rugged, has three fingers that act like thumbs, and has fingertips which might be extremely delicate to the touch.
[ IEEE Spectrum ]
Meals Angel is a meals supply robotic to assist with the issues of meals insecurity and homelessness. Using autonomous wheeled robots for this utility might appear to be a great method, particularly with a lot of profitable business robotic supply providers. Nevertheless, moreover technical concerns corresponding to vary, payload, operation time, autonomy, and so on., there are a variety of essential features that also have to be investigated, corresponding to how most of the people and the receiving finish might really feel about utilizing robots for such functions, or human-robot interplay points corresponding to the way to talk the intent of the robotic to the homeless.
[ RoMeLa ]
The UKRI FLF workforce RoboHike of UCL Laptop Science of the Robotic Notion and Studying lab with Forestry England reveal the ANYmal robotic to assist protect the cultural heritage of an historic mine within the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.
This clip is from a reboot of the British TV present “Time Workforce.” For those who’re not already a fan of “Time Workforce,” let me simply say that it is among the best retro actuality TV reveals ever made, the place precise archaeologists wander across the U.Ok. and dig stuff up. If they will discover something. Which they typically can’t. And in addition it has Tony Robinson (from “Blackadder”), who runs all over the place for some motive. Go to Time Workforce Classics on YouTube for 70+ archived episodes.
[ UCL RPL ]
UBTECH humanoid robotic Walker S Lite is working in Zeekr’s clever manufacturing unit to finish dealing with duties on the loading workstation for 21 consecutive days, and help its workers with logistics work.
[ UBTECH ]
Present visible navigation programs typically deal with the surroundings as static, missing the power to adaptively work together with obstacles. This limitation results in navigation failure when encountering unavoidable obstructions. In response, we introduce IN-Sight, a novel method to self-supervised path planning, enabling simpler navigation methods by means of interplay with obstacles.
[ ETH Zurich paper / IROS 2024 ]
When engaged on autonomous vehicles, typically it’s greatest to begin small.
[ University of Pennsylvania ]
MIT MechE researchers introduce an method known as SimPLE (Simulation to Decide Localize and placE), a technique of exact kitting, or choose and place, through which a robotic learns to select, regrasp, and place objects utilizing the item’s computer-aided design (CAD) mannequin, and all with none prior expertise or encounters with the particular objects.
[ MIT ]
Employees, college students (and quadruped robots!) from UCL Laptop Science want the Nice Britain athletes one of the best of luck this summer season within the Olympic Video games & Paralympics.
Strolling in tall grass may be exhausting for robots, as a result of they will’t see the bottom that they’re truly stepping on. Right here’s a way to resolve that, revealed in Robotics and Automation Letters final 12 months.
[ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]
There is no such thing as a such factor as extra batter on a corn canine, and there may be additionally no such factor as a faulty donut. And apparently, making Kool-Help drink pouches is more durable than it appears to be like.
[ Oxipital AI ]
Unitree has open-sourced its software program to teleoperate humanoids in VR for training-data assortment.
[ Unitree / GitHub ]
Nothing extra satisfying than seeing point-cloud segments wiggle themselves into place, and CSIRO’s Wildcat SLAM does this higher than anybody.
[ IEEE Transactions on Robotics ]
A lecture by Mentee Robotics CEO Lior Wolf, on Mentee’s AI method.
[ Mentee Robotics ]
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