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Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!
Do you’ve got bother multitasking? Cyborgize your self by muscle stimulation to automate repetitive bodily duties whilst you concentrate on one thing else.
[ SplitBody ]
By combining a 5,000 frame-per-second (FPS) occasion digicam with a 20-FPS RGB digicam, roboticists from the College of Zurich have developed a way more efficient imaginative and prescient system that retains autonomous vehicles from crashing into stuff, as described within the present challenge of Nature.
[ Nature ]
Mitsubishi Electrical has been awarded the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the quickest robotic to resolve a puzzle dice. The robotic’s time of 0.305 second beat the earlier report of 0.38 second, for which it acquired a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS certificates on 21 Could 2024.
[ Mitsubishi ]
Sony’s AIBO is celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary, which looks like a very long time, and it’s. However again then, the unique AIBO might verify your electronic mail for you. E mail! In 1999!
I miss Hotmail.
[ AIBO ]
SchniPoSa: schnitzel with french fries and a salad.
[ Dino Robotics ]
Fabric-folding remains to be a extremely exhausting downside for robots, however progress was made at ICRA!
Thanks, Francis!
MIT CSAIL researchers improve robotic precision with subtle tactile sensors within the palm and agile fingers, setting the stage for enhancements in human-robot interplay and prosthetic know-how.
[ MIT ]
We current a novel adversarial assault technique designed to determine failure instances in any kind of locomotion controller, together with state-of-the-art reinforcement-learning-based controllers. Our method reveals the vulnerabilities of black-box neural community controllers, offering beneficial insights that may be leveraged to reinforce robustness by retraining.
[ Fan Shi ]
On this work, we examine a novel built-in versatile OLED show know-how used as a robotic skin-interface to enhance robot-to-human communication in an actual industrial setting at Volkswagen or a collaborative human-robot interplay process in motor meeting. The interface was applied in a workcell and validated qualitatively with a small group of operators (n=9) and quantitatively with a big group (n=42). The validation outcomes confirmed that utilizing versatile OLED know-how might enhance the operators’ perspective towards the robotic; enhance their intention to make use of the robotic; improve their perceived enjoyment, social affect, and belief; and scale back their anxiousness.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Bram!
We introduce InflatableBots, shape-changing inflatable robots for large-scale encountered-type haptics in VR. In contrast to conventional inflatable form shows, that are motionless and restricted in interplay areas, our method combines cell robots with fan-based inflatable buildings. This allows secure, scalable, and deployable haptic interactions on a big scale.
[ InflatableBots ]
[ Paper ]
On this video, a 3-UPU exoskeleton robotic for a wrist joint is designed and managed to carry out wrist extension, flexion, radial-deviation, and ulnar-deviation motions in stroke-affected sufferers. That is the primary time a 3-UPU robotic has been used successfully for any form of process.
“UPU” stands for “universal-prismatic-universal” and refers back to the actuators—the prismatic joints between two common joints.
[ BAS ]
Thanks, Tony!
BRUCE Bought Spot-ted at ICRA2024.
Parachutes: perhaps not pretty much as good of an thought for drones as you may suppose.
[ Wing ]
On this paper, we suggest a system for the artist-directed authoring of stylized bipedal strolling gaits, tailor-made for execution on robotic characters. To exhibit the utility of our method, we animate gaits for a customized, free-walking robotic character, and present, with two further in-simulation examples, how our procedural animation approach generalizes to bipeds with totally different levels of freedom, proportions, and mass distributions.
[ Disney Research ]
The European drone mission Labyrinth goals to maintain new and standard air site visitors separate, particularly in busy airspaces reminiscent of these anticipated in city areas. The mission gives a brand new drone-traffic service and illustrates its potential to enhance the security and effectivity of civil land, air, and sea transport, in addition to emergency and rescue operations.
[ DLR ]
This Carnegie Mellon College Robotics Institute seminar, by Kim Baraka at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is on the subject “Why We Ought to Construct Robotic Apprentices and Why We Shouldn’t Do It Alone.”
For robots to have the ability to really combine human-populated, dynamic, and unpredictable environments, they should have robust adaptive capabilities. On this discuss, I argue that these adaptive capabilities ought to leverage interplay with finish customers, who understand how (they need) a robotic to behave in that atmosphere. I’ll current an outline of my previous and ongoing work on the subject of human-interactive robotic studying, a rising interdisciplinary subfield that embraces wealthy, bidirectional interplay to form robotic studying. I’ll talk about contributions on the algorithmic, interface, and interplay design fronts, showcasing a number of collaborations with animal behaviorists/trainers, dancers, puppeteers, and medical practitioners.
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