Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll even be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months; right here’s what we have now up to now (ship us your occasions!):
ICRA 2022: 23–27 Might 2022, Philadelphia
ERF 2022: 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands
CLAWAR 2022: 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal
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GITAI has developed the superior lunar robotic rover “R1” that may carry out general-purpose duties on the moon corresponding to exploration, mining, inspection, upkeep, meeting, and so on. In December of 2021 on the mock lunar floor atmosphere in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 carried out quite a few duties and mobility operations, efficiently finishing all deliberate exams. Right here we launch a digest video of the demonstration.
That is cool wanting, however I’d must know extra about how this method can take care of an precise lunar atmosphere, proper? Mud, temperatures, horrible lighting, that type of factor.
[ Gitai ]
I’ve questions: The place did Spot put that beer? Why are some robots explicitly proven being distant managed a number of the time? Is that this really the primary we’ve seen BD placing manipulators on Atlas? And the way a lot of the footage is composited as a result of in any other case these guys are standing means too near some really harmful robots?
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Some very intelligent work from the College of, leveraging depth cameras to focus on 3D sensors on stuff you care about: the elements of the scene that transfer.
We present that, in pure scenes like autonomous driving and indoor environments, shifting edges correspond to lower than 10% of the scene on common. Thus our setup requires the sensor to scan solely 10% of the scene, which might result in virtually 90% much less energy consumption by the illumination supply.
[ Paper ]
This historic BLACK HAWK flight marks the primary time {that a} UH-60 has flown autonomously and builds on latest demonstrations on the U.S. Military’s Undertaking Convergence 2021. It illustrates how ALIAS-enabled plane may also help troopers efficiently execute complicated missions with selectable ranges of autonomy—and with elevated security and reliability.
[ Lockheed Martin ]
The Omnid cellular manipulators are an experimental platform for testing management architectures for (1) autonomous multi-robot cooperative manipulation, and (2) human-collaborative manipulation. This video demonstrates human-collaborative manipulation.
[ Northwestern ]
Based mostly on the conduct of precise cats.
[ Petoi ]
Thanks, Rongzhong!
ElectroVoxel is a cube-based reconfigurable robotic that makes use of an electromagnet-based actuation framework to reconfigure in three dimensions by way of pivoting. To exhibit this, we develop absolutely untethered, three-dimensional self-reconfigurable robots and exhibit 2D and 3D self-reconfiguration utilizing pivot and traversal maneuvers on an air-table and in microgravity on a parabolic flight.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
I’m undecided I’ve seen this explicit balancing conduct from Digit demonstrated fairly so explicitly.
[ Agility Robotics ] by way of [ Steve Jurvetson ]
We’ve seen some superimpressive terrain and stairs navigation from quadrupeds just lately, so let’s take a minute to recollect what cutting-edge appeared like only a few years in the past.
What’s regular now was 20x velocity again then, nearly.
[ RSL ]
The primary goal of the HAV challenge is to analysis and develop the primary Greek Autonomous Automobile (Degree 3+) for each analysis and industrial functions.
[ HAV ]
I’d pay actual cash for a 3D autonomous security geofence for all of my drones if it was capable of deal with excessive speeds, dynamic motions, and me screwing up.
[ Paper ]
I actually respect that iRobot has taken care to design its robots to be repairable by finish customers with a screwdriver and nothing else.
[ iRobot ]
Semblr might be essentially the most well-known canteen worker within the UK for the time being. That’s as a result of the centerpiece of Semblr is a robotic, or to be extra exact: a KR AGILUS. Two Karakuri workers help him and fill the substances into Semblr’s serving chambers. The KR AGILUS robotic arm is answerable for mixing and serving the substances.
[ Kuka ]
AutoX RoboTaxi fleet has exceeded 1,000 automobiles. This can be a monumental milestone for the corporate as AutoX’s RoboTaxi fleet is the biggest in China. Scaling past 1,000 RoboTaxis represents a major leap ahead for bigger scale commercialization.
[ AutoX ]
The right way to knockdown [a] heavy object as a bipedal robotic.
[ Vstone ]
Based mostly within the Netherlands, apo.com Group, a pacesetter in automated on-line pharma, has invested in a fleet of our RightPick piece-picking robots to combine with its dice storage automation from AutoStore.
It’s attention-grabbing what points of automation use precise robots, and what don’t.
[ Kuka ]
Trossen Robotics engineers go over their first impressions of AgileX Robotics ROS UGV Rovers and their improvement kits.
[ Trossen Robotics ]
This week’s CMU RI Seminar is from Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Director of the CMU Robotics Institute, on “Classes from the Subject.”
Cellular robots now ship huge quantities of sensor knowledge from massive unstructured environments. In making an attempt to course of and interpret this knowledge there are a lot of distinctive challenges in bridging the hole between prerecorded knowledge units and the sphere. This speak will current latest work addressing the appliance of machine studying strategies to cellular robotic notion. We are going to focus on options to the evaluation of danger in self-driving automobiles, thermal cameras for object detection and mapping and at last object detection and greedy and manipulation in underwater contexts. Actual area knowledge will information this course of and we’ll present outcomes on deployed area robotic automobiles.
[ CMU RI ]
