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Legged robots have the potential to turn into important in upkeep, residence help, and exploration situations. With the intention to work together with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are outfitted with a devoted robotic arm, which suggests further mass and mechanical complexity in comparison with normal legged robots. On this work, we discover pedipulation—utilizing the legs of a legged robotic for manipulation.
This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETH Zurich’s Robotic Programs Lab, shall be offered on the IEEE Worldwide Convention on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in Could, in Japan (see occasions calendar above).
[ Pedipulate ]
I realized a brand new phrase right now: “stigmergy.” Stigmergy is a type of group coordination that’s based mostly on environmental modification. Like, when bugs go away pheromone trails, they’re circuitously sending messages to different people. However as a gaggle, ants are capable of manifest surprisingly complicated coordinated behaviors. Cool, proper? Researchers at IRIDIA are exploring the probabilities for robots utilizing stigmergy with a cool “synthetic pheromone” system utilizing a UV-sensitive floor.
“Automated Design of Stigmergy-Based mostly Behaviors for Robotic Swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is revealed within the journal Communications Engineering.
Thanks, David!
Filmed in July 2017, this video exhibits Atlas strolling by way of a “hatch” on a pitching floor. This ability makes use of autonomous behaviors, with the robotic not realizing concerning the rocking world. Robotic constructed by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Problem in 2013. Software program by IHMC Robotics.
[ IHMC ]
That IHMC video jogged my memory of the SAFFiR program for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robots, which is chargeable for a bunch of actually cool analysis in partnership with the U.S. Naval Analysis Laboratory. NRL did some fascinating stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their very own movies. That effort I feel didn’t get practically sufficient credit score for being very entertaining whereas speaking vital robotics analysis.
[ NRL ]
I would like extra robotic movies with this vitality.
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Massive industrial-asset operators more and more use robotics to automate hazardous work at their amenities. This has led to hovering demand for autonomous inspection options like ANYmal. Sequence manufacturing by our companion Zollner allows ANYbotics to provide our prospects with the required portions of robots.
[ ANYbotics ]
This week is Grain Bin Security Week, and Grain Weevil is right here to assist.
[ Grain Weevil ]
Oof, that is some heavy, heavy deep-time stuff.
[ Onkalo ]
And now, this.
[ RozenZebet ]
Hawkeye is a real-time multimodal conversation-and-interaction agent for the Boston Dynamics’ cell robotic Spot. Leveraging OpenAI’s experimental GPT-4 Turbo and Imaginative and prescient AI fashions, Hawkeye goals to empower everybody, from seniors to well being care professionals in forming new and distinctive interactions with the world round them.
That second at 1:07 is so relatable.
[ Hawkeye ]
[ Wing ]
The rover Artemis, developed on the DFKI Robotics Innovation Heart, has been outfitted with a penetrometer that measures the soil’s penetration resistance to acquire exact details about soil power. The video showcases an preliminary take a look at run with the system mounted on the robotic. Throughout this take a look at, the robotic was remotely managed, and the utmost penetration depth was restricted to fifteen millimeters.
[ DFKI ]
To effectively obtain complicated humanoid loco-manipulation duties in industrial contexts, we suggest a mixed vision-based tracker-localization interaction built-in as a part of a task-space whole-body-optimization management. Our method permits humanoid robots, focused for industrial manufacturing, to govern and assemble large-scale objects whereas strolling.
[ Paper ]
We developed a novel multibody robotic (known as the Two-Physique Bot) consisting of two small-footprint cell bases related by a four-bar linkage the place handlebars are mounted. Every base measures solely 29.2 centimeters broad, making the robotic doubtless the slimmest ever developed for cell postural help.
[ MIT ]
Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert.
[ Lex Fridman ]