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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Advanced Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program not too long ago performed its fourth experiment (E4) to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned automobiles. These assessments, performed in Texas in late 2023, have been the primary time this system examined its new car, the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP). The video exhibits autonomous route following for mobility testing and demonstration, together with sensor level cloud visualizations.
The 12-ton RHP is considerably bigger than the 2-ton RACER Fleet Autos (RFVs) already in use in this system. Utilizing the algorithms on a really completely different platform helps RACER towards its purpose of platform agnostic autonomy of combat-scale automobiles in complicated, mission-relevant off-road environments which can be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road circumstances.
[ DARPA ]
In our new Science Roboticspaper, we introduce an autonomous navigation system developed for our wheeled-legged quadrupeds, designed for quick and environment friendly navigation inside giant city environments. Pushed by neural community insurance policies, our easy, unified management system allows clean gait transitions, sensible navigation planning, and extremely responsive impediment avoidance in populated city environments.
[ Github ]
Era 7 of ‘Phoenix’ robots embody improved human-like vary of movement. Enhancements in uptime, visible notion, and tactile sensing enhance the aptitude of the system to carry out complicated duties over longer durations. Design iteration considerably decreases construct time. The velocity at which new duties might be automated has elevated 50x, marking a significant inflection level in process automation velocity.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’re proud to have a good time our one millionth industrial supply—that’s 1,000,000 deliveries of lifesaving blood, vital vaccines, last-minute groceries, and a lot extra. However the perfect half? That is only the start.
[ Zipline ]
Work these hips!
[ RoMeLa ]
This factor is sort of terrifying, and I’m fascinated by it.
[ AVFL ]
We suggest a novel humanoid TWIMP, which mixes a human mimetic musculoskeletal higher limb with a two-wheel inverted pendulum. By combining the advantage of a musculoskeletal humanoid, which may obtain mushy contact with the exterior setting, and the advantage of a two-wheel inverted pendulum with a small footprint and excessive mobility, we will simply examine studying management programs in environments with contact and sudden affect.
From Humanoids 2018.
[ Paper ] by way of [ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Kento!
Ballbots are uniquely able to pushing wheelchairs—arguably higher than legged platforms, as a result of they will transfer in any path with out having to reposition themselves.
[ Paper ]
Cost Robotics is constructing robots that automate probably the most labor-intensive elements of photo voltaic building. Photo voltaic has quickly change into the most cost effective type of energy era in lots of areas. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the first barrier to getting it put in is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots take away the labor bottleneck, permitting building corporations to fulfill the rising demand for photo voltaic, and enabling the world to modify to renewables quicker.
[ Charge Robotics ]
Robots doing precision meeting is cool and all, however these vibratory bowl sorters appear to be magic.
[ FANUC ]
The QUT CGRAS challenge’s robotic prototype captures pictures of child corals, destined for the Nice Barrier Reef, monitoring and counting them in develop tanks. The crew makes use of state-of-the-art AI algorithms to mechanically detect and rely these coral infants and observe their development over time – saving human counting money and time.
[ QUT ]
We’re conducting analysis to develop Unmanned Aerial Programs to help in wildfire monitoring. The hazardous, dynamic, and visually degraded setting of wildfire provides rise to many unsolved basic analysis challenges.
[ CMU ]
Right here’s somewhat extra video of that robotic elevator, however I’m questioning why it’s so sluggish—clamp these bots in there and rocket that elevator up and down!
[ NAVER ]
In March 2024, Northwestern College’s Heart for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated the Omnid cell collaborative robots (mocobots) at MARS, a convention in Ojai, California on Machine studying, Automation, Robotics, and House, hosted by Jeff Bezos. The “swarm” of mocobots is designed to collaborate with people, permitting a human to simply manipulate giant, heavy, or awkward payloads. On this case, the mocobots cancel the impact of gravity, so the human can simply manipulate the mock airplane wing in six levels of freedom. Basically, human-cobot programs mix the perfect of human capabilities with the perfect of robotic capabilities.
[ Northwestern ]
There’s one thing so soothing about watching a lithium battery get wrecked and burn for 8 minutes.
EELS, or Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, is a flexible, snake-like robotic designed for exploration of beforehand inaccessible terrain. This speak on EELS was introduced on the 2024 Amazon MARS convention.
[ JPL ]
The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock an exquisite new world of potentialities in on a regular basis life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the best way machines suppose, she reveals how “liquid networks”—a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of straightforward organisms—might assist clever machines course of data extra effectively and provides rise to “bodily intelligence” that can allow AI to function past digital confines and interact dynamically in the true world.
[ TED ]
