Video Friday brings you weekly awesome robotics videos curated by your friends on . IEEE spectrum robotics. We also have a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.please Submit your event for inclusion.
Robotics Summit & Expo: May 10-11, 2023, Boston
ICRA 2023: 29 May – 2 June 2023, London
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
CLAWAR 2023: October 2-4, 2023, Florianopolis, Brazil
Humanoids 2023: December 12-14, 2023, Austin, TX, USA
Enjoy today’s video!
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history on April 19, 2021 when it achieved the first powered and controlled flight over another planet. The video highlights his Ingenuity flight captured by his WATSON camera on the Perseverance Rover and his Mastcam-Z camera, as well as Ingenuity’s color Return to Earth (RTE) camera and its black and white navigation his camera. It has been.
50 flights is 45 more than this little helicopter was designed for, which is absurd. oh.
[ JPL ]
Researchers at Georgia Tech recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, flexible magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. The motor can be crushed in any direction, and someday it can improve the compatibility between humans and robots and extend the capabilities of soft robots. rpm no-load speed, it is orders of magnitude faster and more powerful than previously developed soft motors. This speed approaches the capabilities of conventional hard motors. To showcase this new technology, soft motors are used in a variety of applications from squeeze-based speed control to fully soft underwater propulsion, hybrid water pumps, and hybrid toy car propulsion. It shows how a fully soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between traditional hard motor functionality and new soft actuator concepts.
[ Paper ] via [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ]
Thank you Noah!
DARPA’s Resilient Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to evaluate the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Conducted March 12-27, these test runs included the first tests using his fully unmanned RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs), with a safety operator supporting his chase vehicle. I was watching. The goal of the RACER program is to demonstrate autonomous movement of combat-scale vehicles in complex and mission-relevant off-road environments that are far more unpredictable than on-road conditions.
Multiple courses were on the challenging and unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert at the US Army National Training Center (NTC) in Fort. Irwin, California. As with previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Additionally, researchers at the Army Research Laboratory have demonstrated the flexibility of the performer team’s autonomous software, which is critical for moving RACER functionality into service. This completes the first phase of the project.
[ DARPA ]
Happy Easter from ANYbotics!
[ ANYbotics ]
Robots aren’t perfect, but people aren’t either! And the 99% uptime during the four-day show is still impressive.
[ Agility Robotics ]
Watching robots try to wipe up spills makes you realize just how much advantage humans still have when it comes to manipulation.
[ Google AI ]
Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. This allows us to work more safely, efficiently and sustainably. Our general-purpose robot can operate in three modes. It is operated by a person using Pilot Assist. It is supervised by a human while observing, evaluating, and performing tasks using an autonomous control system built into the robot. This video describes the process and benefits of remote control mode for human piloting the Sanctuary AI General Purpose Robot.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We built Robo-Taxi from scratch. I had to take it apart to really test it. The final episode of Putting Zoox to the Test explains how robotaxis are designed to pass the toughest crash tests, from pre-crash simulation to component-level testing to post-crash testing. Summarize the process.
[ Zoox ]
More robot tails!
[ Robomechanics Lab ]
I think that high-end leather bags also need a fatigue test.
[ qb robotics ]
It’s always cool to see different remote control interfaces.
[ Extend Robotics ]
A few years ago there were some tests of how the X20 handled an unfavorable environment. These capabilities are then realized in real-world applications such as hazard rescue solutions. More applications are in development. Ultimately help humans complete impossible missions without risk.
[ Deep Robotics ]
NAVER LABS is collaborating with Professor Sung Joon Choi and his team at the Institute of Robot Intelligence, Korea University on “Natural Robot Motion Generation”. Ambidex, which has a joint structure similar to that of humans, is used to create various movements and investigate human reactions to those movements. The purpose is to investigate when robot movements look natural.
[ Naver Labs ]
This seminar is about “Teaching and Researching Robotics in Liberal Arts Colleges” by Matt Zucker, Swarthmore College.
This talk will describe my transition from a research-intensive PhD to a teaching-focused undergraduate institution position in the light of my own career trajectory. Key topics include the relationship between robotics and the liberal arts, and guidelines for graduate students interested in teaching-focused faculty work.
[ UPenn ]
