Your weekly collection of superior robotic movies
Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Might 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Power Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
ETH Robotics Summer time Faculty: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
IAS 2025: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY
ICRES 2025: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!
This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gasoline, proper off the 3D-printer. It may also be printed in a single go, from one materials. Researchers from the College of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robotic in a sophisticated on-line publication within the journal Superior Clever Techniques. They used the best expertise obtainable: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design strategy will not be solely sturdy, it is usually low-cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.
And particulars!
[ Paper ] by way of [ University of California San Diego ]
Why would you like a humanoid robotic to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I assume, nevertheless it’s arduous to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle tissues that we do will transfer optimally by simply attempting to imitate us.
[ Figure ]
I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little delicate robotic worm by some means strikes with an unimaginable quantity of persona.
Delicate actuators are essential for enabling delicate robots, medical gadgets, and haptic programs. Many delicate actuators, nevertheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on arduous circuitry for management, limiting their potential purposes. On this work, the primary delicate electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Ellen!
A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this have been a human doing it.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
My colleagues have been impressed by this cooking robotic, however which may be as a result of journalists are at all times impressed by free meals.
[ Posha ]
That is our newest work a few hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robotic known as SPIDAR, which reveals distinctive and complicated locomotion kinds in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been offered within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Analysis (ISRR) 2024.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Dragon Lab ]
Thanks, Moju!
This recent, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck velocity of humanoid intelligence development. Every single day brings one thing thrilling!
[ Unitree ]
There must be extra robots that you may experience round on.
[ AgileX Robotics ]
There must be extra robots that put on hats at work.
[ Ugo ]
iRobot, who pioneered big docks for robotic vacuums, is now transferring away from big docks for robotic vacuums.
[ iRobot ]
There’s a well-known experiment the place in the event you put a lifeless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. One way or the other, you are able to do the identical factor with an unactuated quadruped robotic on a treadmill.
[ Delft University of Technology ]
Mush! Narrowly!
[ Hybrid Robotics ]
It’s freaking me out slightly bit that this couple is seemingly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and 0 different people.
[ MagicLab ]
I’m attempting, I actually am, however the yellow is simply not working for me.
[ Kepler ]
By having Stretch tackle the bodily demanding process of unloading trailers stacked ground to ceiling with bins, Hole Inc has decreased accidents, lowered turnover, and watched workers get enthusiastic about automation meant to maintain them protected.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to higher perceive the previous and current habitability of the Pink Planet. Of specific curiosity to its search are natural molecules: the constructing blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone known as “Cumberland,” the biggest organics but found on Mars.
[ NASA ]
This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Basis Fashions.
Common-purpose pretrained fashions have reworked pure language processing, laptop imaginative and prescient, and different fields. In precept, such approaches must be excellent in robotics: since gathering massive quantities of knowledge for any given robotic platform and utility is more likely to be tough, common pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current a super recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world purposes.
From the angle of common AI analysis, such approaches additionally provide a promising and intriguing strategy to among the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present numerous bodily capabilities, this is able to shed mild not solely on the sensible questions round designing broadly succesful robots, however the foundations of located problem-solving, bodily understanding, and determination making. Nonetheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with a variety of difficult obstacles. What information lets use to coach robotic basis fashions? What would be the coaching goal? How ought to alignment or post-training be executed? On this discuss, I’ll focus on how we will strategy a few of these challenges.
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