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Constructed from superbly fabricated metal and eight cellular arms, medusai can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and transfer in time to a number of human observers. It makes use of AI-driven pc imaginative and prescient to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly via snake gestures, music, and light-weight.
If this appears somewhat bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The venture was designed to discover the ideas of belief and threat within the context of robots, and of utilizing expertise to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] through [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Gil!
On 19 April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it accomplished the primary powered, managed flight on the Crimson Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital position in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of revolutionary methods for enhancing teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel strategy that makes use of blended actuality and assistive autonomy to reinforce the effectivity and precision of humanoid robot teleoperation.
Typically all it takes is one good punch, after which you possibly can simply collapse.
Thanks, Robert!
The brand new Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter 2 enhances on-site efficiency and productiveness via its compact design and prolonged capabilities. Constructing upon the success of the first-generation FieldPrinter, which has printed over 91 million sq. ft of structure, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes discovered from years of expertise within the subject to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on web site.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for aiding people, discovering functions in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. However, their floating base construction renders them vulnerable to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator could not all the time be possible. On this examine, we suggest a strong all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate fast and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Hiya Robotic and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the College of Washington) will probably be introduced at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I prefer to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
Boxing, drumming, stacking containers, and numerous different practices…these are the each day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots acquire real-world information from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR venture goals to develop a flexible and open device equipment for basic robotic features, utilizing deep studying to reinforce their understanding and decision-making talents. The first goal is to make robots extra clever, significantly in important areas like well being care, agriculture, and manufacturing. Within the well being care setting, the TIAGo robotic is deployed to supply help and assist inside a well being care facility.
[ OpenDR ] through [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck provides a chat entitled “Social robots: The tip of the start or the start of the tip?”
Professor Michael Jordan affords his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a wonderful and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]
