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Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 Might 2023, BOSTON
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IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA
CLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it achieved the primary powered, managed flight on one other planet on April 19, 2021. Since then, it has exceeded expectations and most just lately executed its fiftieth flight on Mars. This video highlights Ingenuity’s flights, captured by the Perseverance Rover’s WATSON and Mastcam-Z cameras, in addition to Ingenuity’s coloration Return to Earth (RTE) digital camera and its black-and-white navigation digital camera.
50 flights is 45 flights greater than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. It has exceeded the anticipated cumulative flight time by 1,250%, and the anticipated distance flown by 2,214%. Wow.
[ JPL ]
Georgia Tech researchers have just lately created a gentle rotary motor utilizing liquid steel, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. The motor could be squished and squeezed in all instructions, which may sooner or later enhance the compatibility between people and robots and lengthen the potential of sentimental robots. This gentle motor is orders of magnitude sooner and stronger than beforehand developed gentle motors with a stall torque of three mN·m and a no-load pace of as much as 4000 rpm. This pace approaches the potential of conventional onerous motors! To showcase this new expertise, the gentle motor is utilized in quite a lot of functions from squeeze-based pace management to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy automotive. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the hole between the capabilities of conventional onerous motors and novel gentle actuator ideas.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ]
Thanks, Noah!
DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complicated Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program just lately carried out its third experiment to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned autos. These take a look at runs, carried out 12-27 March, included the primary with fully uninhabited RACER Fleet Autos (RFVs), with a security operator overseeing in a supporting chase car. The objective of the RACER program is to show autonomous motion of combat-scale autos in advanced, mission-relevant off-road environments which are considerably extra unpredictable than on-road situations.
The a number of programs have been within the difficult and unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert on the U.S. Military’s Nationwide Coaching Middle (NTC) in Ft. Irwin, California. As on the earlier occasions, groups from Carnegie Mellon College, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the College of Washington participated. Moreover, researchers from the Military Analysis Laboratory demonstrated the flexibleness of the performer group’s autonomy software program, vital to transitioning RACER capabilities to the providers. This accomplished the challenge’s first part.
[ DARPA ]
Pleased Easter from ANYbotics!
[ ANYbotics ]
Robots aren’t excellent, however neither are folks! And 99% uptime over the period of a 4 day commerce present remains to be spectacular.
[ Agility Robotics ]
Watching a robotic attempt to wipe up a spill actually hammers residence how a lot of a bonus people nonetheless have relating to manipulation.
[ Google AI ]
Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that can assist us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably. Our general-purpose robots could be operated in three modes: straight piloted by folks; operated by folks utilizing pilot-assist; and supervised by folks whereas utilizing the robotic’s built-in autonomous management system to look at, assess, and act on duties. This video explains the method and advantages of teleoperation mode when Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots are piloted by folks.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’ve constructed our robotaxi from the bottom up. To actually take a look at it, we’ve needed to break it aside. Within the remaining episode of Placing Zoox to the Take a look at, we clarify how our robotaxi is designed to move essentially the most rigorous crash checks and summarize the method from pre-crash simulations to component-level checks and post-crash testing.
[ Zoox ]
Extra tails for robots!
I assume luxurious leather-based luggage want fatigue testing too.
[ qb robotics ]
All the time cool to see completely different teleoperation interfaces.
[ Extend Robotics ]
There have been some checks of how X20 handled adversarial environments a number of years in the past; Afterward, these capabilities are come to comprehend in real-world functions just like the Hazard Rescue resolution. There are extra functions on their approach; Finally, assist people full unattainable missions with no threat.
[ Deep Robotics ]
NAVER LABS is conducting joint analysis on “Pure Robotic Movement Era” with Professor Choi Sung-joon and his group at Korea College Robotic Intelligence Lab. The analysis entails making numerous motions with ‘AMBIDEX’ that has human-like joint constructions and testing folks’s responses to the motions. It goals to seek out out when folks suppose a robotic’s motions look pure.
[ Naver Labs ]
This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore Faculty, on “Robotics training and analysis at a liberal arts faculty.”
On this speak, I’ll describe the transition from a research-intensive PhD to a place at a teaching-focused undergraduate establishment within the context of my very own profession trajectory. Key matters embrace connections between robotics and the liberal arts, and tips for graduate college students who’re inquisitive about pursuing teaching-focused college jobs.
[ UPenn ]
