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There’s a Canadian legend a couple of flying canoe, due to course there’s. The legend entails drunkenness, a celebration with some women, swearing, and a pact with the satan, due to course it does. Thankfully for the drone on this video, it wants none of that to efficiently land on this (almost) flying canoe, just a few high-friction shock absorbing legs and even handed software of reverse thrust.
[ Createk ]
Thanks, Alexis!
This paper summarizes an autonomous driving undertaking by musculoskeletal humanoids. The musculoskeletal humanoid, which mimics the human physique intimately, has redundant sensors and a versatile physique construction. We rethink the developed {hardware} and software program of the musculoskeletal humanoid Musashi within the context of autonomous driving. The respective parts of autonomous driving are carried out utilizing the advantages of the {hardware} and software program. Lastly, Musashi succeeded within the pedal and steering wheel operations with recognition.
[ Paper ] by way of [ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Kento!
Strong AI has been kinda quiet for the final short while, however their Carter robotic continues to enhance.
[ Robust AI ]
One of many key arguments for constructing robots which have comparable kind elements to human beings is that we are able to leverage the large human knowledge for coaching. On this paper, we introduce a full-stack system for humanoids to study movement and autonomous abilities from human knowledge. We exhibit the system on our custom-made 33-degrees-of-freedom 180 centimeter humanoid, autonomously finishing duties reminiscent of carrying a shoe to face up and stroll, unloading objects from warehouse racks, folding a sweatshirt, rearranging objects, typing, and greeting one other robotic with 60-100% success charges utilizing as much as 40 demonstrations.
[ HumanPlus ]
We current OmniH2O (Omni Human-to-Humanoid), a learning-based system for whole-body humanoid teleoperation and autonomy. Utilizing kinematic pose as a common management interface, OmniH2O permits varied methods for a human to manage a full-sized humanoid with dexterous palms, together with utilizing real-time teleoperation by way of VR headset, verbal instruction, and RGB digicam. OmniH2O additionally permits full autonomy by studying from teleoperated demonstrations or integrating with frontier fashions reminiscent of GPT-4.
[ OmniH2O ]
A collaboration between Boxbot, Agility Robotics, and Strong.AI at Playground World. Make sure that and watch till the top to listen to the roboticists within the background react when the demo works in a really roboticist manner.
::clap clap clap:: yaaaaayyyyy….
[ Robust AI ]
Using drones and robotic gadgets threatens civilian and army actors in battle areas. We began trials with robots to see how we are able to adapt our HEAT (Hostile Atmosphere Consciousness Coaching) programs to this new actuality.
[ CSD ]
Thanks, Ebe!
How you can make humanoids do versatile parkour leaping, clapping dance, cliff traversal, and field pick-and-move with a unified RL framework? We introduce WoCoCo: Entire-body humanoid Management with sequential Contacts
[ WoCoCo ]
A choice of glorious demos from the Studying Techniques and Robotics Lab at TUM and the College of Toronto.
[ Learning Systems and Robotics Lab ]
Harvest Automation, one of many OG autonomous cell robotic corporations, hasn’t up to date their web site since like 2016, however some movies simply confirmed up on YouTube this week.
Northrop Grumman has been pioneering capabilities within the undersea area for greater than 50 years. Now, we’re creating a brand new class of uncrewed underwater autos (UUV) with Manta Ray. Taking its title from the large “winged” fish, Manta Ray will function long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments the place people can’t go.
[ Northrop Grumman ]
Akara Robotics’ autonomous robotic UV disinfection demo.
[ Akara Robotics ]
Scientists have computationally predicted a whole lot of hundreds of novel supplies that might be promising for brand spanking new applied sciences—however testing to see whether or not any of these supplies may be made in actuality is a sluggish course of. Enter A-Lab, which makes use of robots guided by synthetic intelligence to hurry up the method.
[ A-Lab ]
We wrote about this analysis from CMU some time again, however right here’s a fairly good video.
[ CMU RI ]
Aw yiss choose and place robots.
[ Fanuc ]
Axel Moore describes his lab’s work in orthopedic biomechanics to alleviate joint ache with robotic help.
[ CMU ]
The sphere of humanoid robots has grown in recent times with a number of corporations and analysis laboratories creating new humanoid techniques. Nonetheless, the variety of working robots didn’t noticeably rise. Regardless of the necessity for quick locomotion to shortly serve given duties, which require traversing advanced terrain by working and leaping over obstacles. To offer an summary of the design of humanoid robots with bioinspired mechanisms, this paper introduces the elemental capabilities of the human working gait.
[ Paper ]
