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 put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.
Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Could 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE
ICRA 2024: 13–17 Could 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
Get pleasure from at present’s movies!
This magnetically actuated delicate robotic is maybe barely a robotic by most definitions, however I can’t cease watching it flop round.
On this work, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Ahmet F. Demirörs, and co‐employees from SDU (DK) and ETH (CH) introduce kirigami right into a delicate magnetic sheet to attain bidirectional crawling beneath rotating magnetic fields. Experimentally characterised crawling and deformation profiles, mixed with numerical simulations, reveal programmable movement by means of adjustments in lower form, magnet orientation, and translational movement. This work gives a easy method towards untethered delicate robots.
Thanks, Ahmad!
Winner of the earliest vacation video is the LARSEN crew at Inria!
[ Inria ]
Thanks, Serena!
Regardless that that is only a rendering, I actually recognize Apptronik being like, “we’re into the humanoid factor, however generally you simply don’t want legs.”
[ Apptronik ]
We’re not allowed to debate unmentionables right here at IEEE Spectrum, so I can solely let you know that Digit has began working in a warehouse dealing with, uh, issues.
[ Agility ]
Unitree’s sub-$90k H1 Humanoid struggling some abuse in a non-PR video.
[ Impress ]
In contrast to me, ANYmal can carry out 24/7 in all climate.
[ ANYbotics ]
A lot of the world might want to activate subtitles for this, nevertheless it’s cool to see how industrial robots can be utilized to make artwork.
[ Kuka ]
I used to be solely 12 when this episode of Scientific American Frontiers aired, however I completely keep in mind Alan Alda assembly Flakey!
And right here’s the section, it’s fairly nice.
[ SRI ]
Agility CEO Damion Shelton talks in regards to the hierarchy of robotic management and attracts similarities to the method of using a horse.
[ Agility ]
In search of to instill college students with real-life workforce expertise by means of hands-on studying, academics at Central Excessive College in Louisville, Ky., included Spot into their curriculum. For college kids at CHS, a magnet faculty for Jefferson County Public Faculties district, getting expertise with an industrial robotic has sparked a ardour for engineering and robotics, kickstarted development into college engineering packages, and constructed lifelong profession expertise. See how college students study to function Spot, program new behaviors for the robotic, and encourage their friends with the varsity’s “emotional help robotic” and unofficial mascot.
[ Boston Dynamics ]