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Brachiation is a dynamic, coordinated swinging maneuver of physique and arms utilized by monkeys and apes to maneuver between branches. As a novel underactuated mode of locomotion, it’s fascinating to review from a robotics perspective since it may broaden the deployment situations for humanoids and animaloids. Whereas a number of brachiating robots of various complexity have been proposed prior to now, this paper presents the only doable prototype of a brachiation robotic, utilizing solely a single actuator and unactuated grippers.
[ AcroMonk ]
A staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robotic known as EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). Impressed by a need to descend vents on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and enter the subsurface ocean, this versatile robotic is being developed to autonomously map, traverse, and discover beforehand inaccessible locations on Earth, the Moon, and different worlds in our photo voltaic system.
[ JPL ]
Elythor, an EPFL spin-off, has developed a brand new drone whose wing form can adapt to wind circumstances and flight place in actual time, lowering the drone’s vitality consumption. What’s extra, the place of the wings can change, permitting the drone to fly vertically or horizontally. These options make it an ideal candidate for inspecting energy vegetation.
[ Elythor ] by way of [ EPFL ]
Can robots maintain bodily contact whereas shifting quick? Certain they’ll!
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Maged!
Maciej Stępień writes, “Roomac is a cell manipulation platform that I used to be in a position to construct for $550. It consists of a differential drive cell base and a 5-DoF manipulator with a gripper. Software program is predicated on ROS, as a proof-of-concept utility I applied fetching bottle to the consumer.”
[ Roomac ]
Thanks, Maciej!
Personally, I feel the remake is means higher than the unique on this one.
[ Box Shop ] by way of [ Engadget ]
Watch and hearken to this video from Agility Robotics on notion.
[ Agility ]
From radiotherapy to joint surgical procedure and hair transplants—our KUKA robotic know-how is already being utilized in quite a few medical units.
[ Kuka ]
By combining Gecko’s superior robotics, AI-powered software program platform, and digital twin modeling, ADNOC created a Good Upkeep Program to remodel their security and reliability requirements.
[ Gecko Robotics ]
This video presents outcomes on autonomous exploration of a number of ballast water tank compartments inside an FPSO vessel. To execute the mission, the robotic performs simultaneous localization and mapping, represents the world utilizing voxels thus permitting it to conduct volumetric calculations, plans exploratory paths inside every compartment, and detects and localizes the manholes inside them.
[ ARL ]
Robots nonetheless have so much to be taught from people on the subject of manipulation.
[ Extend Robotics ]
Serving to develop the subsequent era of engineers and technicians, volunteers from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Analysis Middle in Edwards, California, assisted college students competing within the Aerospace Valley Regional Robotics Competitors.
If the competitors is not sensible to you, that’s regular for FIRST.
[ NASA ]
This video is about Group ORIon’s participation within the 2022 RoboCup held in Bangkok, Thailand. RoboCup is a global robotics competitors that promotes analysis in robotics and AI. Group ORIon, supported by the ORI, the Division of Engineering Science, and personal donors, despatched 9 members to compete within the “@House” home normal platform league.
[ ORI ]
I’d love a robotic mountaineering buddy, particularly one which’s higher at mountaineering than I’m.
[ RaiLab ]
On this episode of the Robotic Brains podcast, Pieter Abbeel interviews Geoff Hinton, the “Godfather of AI”.
[ Robot Brains ]
