Video Friday is a weekly selection of awesome robotics videos curated by friends. IEEE spectrum robotics. We’ll also post a weekly calendar of robotics events for the next few months.please Send us your event for inclusion.
RoboCup 2023: July 4-10, 2023, Bordeaux, France
RSS 2023: July 10-14, 2023, Daegu, South Korea
IEEE RO-MAN 2023: August 28-31, 2023, Busan, South Korea
IROS 2023: October 1-5, 2023, Detroit
CLAWAR 2023: October 2-4, 2023, Florianopolis, Brazil
Humanoids 2023: December 12-14, 2023, Austin, TX
Enjoy today’s video!
There are arguably the best grippers in biology. Even if it’s not your hands.
And look at this cutie!
[Paper]
RoboCat is a self-improving AI agent for robotics that learns how to perform different tasks with different arms and self-generates new training data to improve its technique.
[Deep Mind]
uMobileLab is a mobile and versatile collaborative lab automation solution that integrates seamlessly into your existing lab workflow. This increases efficiency when workloads fluctuate, allowing you to safely move between different lab settings and environments while completing tasks efficiently.
You can tell it’s a robot that does science because it wears glasses.
[United Robotics]
The most interesting video is the last part, where the crash-resistant quartet starts pushing a big box.
[ASU]
New research from Carnegie Mellon University has allowed robots to learn household chores by watching videos of people performing routine tasks at home. The research could improve the utility of robots in the home, helping people with tasks like cooking and cleaning. The two robots successfully learned 12 tasks such as opening drawers, oven doors and lids. Remove the pot from the stove. Then pick up a phone, vegetables, or a can of soup.
[CMU]
The HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation (OVMM) Challenge aims to enable researchers to develop agents that can navigate unfamiliar environments, manipulate new objects, and transition from closed object classes to open vocabulary natural language. to create a platform. This challenge aims to leverage recent advances in machine learning, computer vision, natural language, and robotics to facilitate cross-cutting research in embodied AI.
The winner will receive their own stretching robot!
[HomeRobot]
Thank you Aaron!
Aerial deployment and retrieval of a human-like dual-arm manipulator has been successfully demonstrated to install a specialized avian flight diverter on a real power transmission line.
[GRVC]
Intentional or not, this is pretty funny.
[Engineered Arts]
Sanctuary robots are ready for preschool. It sounds like disrespect to robots, but it really isn’t.
[Sanctuary]
This wheelchair tennis robot from Georgia Tech was named ESTHER, which stands for (Experimental Sport Tennis wHEelchair Robot). It might be unreasonable, but it’s named after Esther Felgear, perhaps the greatest wheelchair tennis player of all time, so it’s a passing grade.
[Georgia Tech]
This video isn’t all that impressive, but I still love the concept behind this fluffy robot.
[Squishy Robotics]
