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Cybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024, ZURICH
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Might 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
ICRA 2024: 13–17 Might 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
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Created from fantastically fabricated metal and eight cell 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 a bit bit unsettling, that’s intentional! The challenge was designed to discover the ideas of belief and danger within the context of robots, and of utilizing know-how to affect emotion.
[ medusai ] by way of [ 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 Purple Planet. It flew for the final time on 18 January 2024.
[ NASA JPL ]
Teleoperation performs a vital function in enabling robotic operations in difficult environments, but present limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the event of progressive methods for enhancing teleoperated duties. The work illustrated on this video introduces a novel strategy that makes use of combined actuality and assistive autonomy to reinforce the effectivity and precision of humanoid robotic teleoperation.
Generally all it takes is one good punch, after which you may simply collapse.
[ Paper ] by way of [ IHMC ]
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. toes of structure, the FieldPrint Platform incorporates classes realized from years of expertise within the discipline to ship an optimized expertise for all trades on web site.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as a cutting-edge platform for helping people, discovering purposes in duties associated to inspection and exploration in distant areas. However, their floating base construction renders them inclined to failure in cluttered environments, the place guide restoration by a human operator might not at all times be possible. On this examine, we suggest a strong all-terrain restoration coverage to facilitate speedy and safe restoration in cluttered environments.
[ DreamRiser ]
The work that Henry Evans is doing with Stretch (together with Good day Robotic and Maya Cakmak’s lab on the College of Washington) can be offered at Humanoids this spring.
[ UW HCRL ]
Thanks, Stefan!
I wish to think about that these are simply excerpts from one very lengthy stroll that Digit took round San Francisco.
[ Hybrid Robotics Lab ]
Boxing, drumming, stacking packing containers, and varied different practices…these are the every day teleoperation testing of our humanoid robotic. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots gather real-world knowledge from teleoperation for studying to iterate management algorithms.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The OpenDR challenge goals to develop a flexible and open instrument package for basic robotic capabilities, 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 ] by way of [ PAL Robotics ]
[ ARCHES ]
Christoph Bartneck offers a chat entitled “Social robots: The tip of the start or the start of the tip?”
[ Christoph Bartneck ]
Professor Michael Jordan gives his provocative ideas on the mixing of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, an attractive and grand metropolis in northern Italy.
[ Berkeley ]
