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
Humanoid 2023: December 12-14, 2023, Austin, TX
Enjoy today’s video!
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[ Soft Robotics ]
Appropriate facial expressions for Ameka in this video were selected by GPT-3. I also tried GPT-4. 4 took longer to process and slowed down Ameca’s response.
[ Engineered Arts ]
Kitten: The ubiquitous lazy robot enemy.
I’m really curious as to what the “<3 Fluffy Pants" are all about.
[ Agility Robotics ]
Summary video of KIMLAB Robot Demos at UIUC Engineering Open House 2023.
[ KIMLAB ]
SRI International’s latest robotic application focuses on the integration of active surfaces and compliant robotic graspers to provide high dexterity and robustness for robotic hand manipulation. Graspers can grab different sizes and shapes with a power grip and move them on different axes without lifting a finger. The ability to turn objects with the power grip offers unique value for both industrial and domestic applications.
Haha, I wish my fingers could do that.
[ Yilin Cai ]
The new Walk is based on the 2022 Walk. Use regulation to change the allowable rotational speed of the support foot joints to ensure stability. Therefore, the various leg parts perform their intended behavior, but some leg parts are slowed down as needed based on the measured rotational error of the center of mass and the supporting foot. Additionally, to handle more extreme cases at higher walking speeds, we use a neural network to predict future joint position measurements and calculate future position errors. Robots can now handle more difficult situations. Also, as an unintended effect, the robot lifts with the tip of the supporting leg, just like a human.
[ B-Human ]
The motion platform is an upside-down quadrupedal robot.
[ GitHub ]
This is getting out of hand—now there are two!
[ Sanctuary AI ]
The little dog house in this video is so cute.
[ Unitree ]
ORNL researchers study the impact of energy use on waterways and develop solutions to limit water pollution. This segment shows how scientists use drones to assess biodiversity and ecosystem health.
[ ORNL ]
The number of new vehicles equipped with self-driving functions is increasing. By 2030, an estimated 4 million fully self-driving cars will be on the roads of the United States. A key challenge is ensuring that these vehicles are safe enough to drive on public roads.
[ NSF ]
This GRASP seminar is on “Autonomous Mobility in Mars Exploration: Recent Achievements and Future Perspectives” by Larry Matthies of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This talk summarizes the major recent advances in autonomous surface and airborne locomotion for Mars exploration and discusses potential future missions and technology needs for Mars and other planetary bodies. A recently proposed rover mission concept for the Moon would travel about 1,500 to 2,000 kilometers within four years, which would require significant advances in autonomy. A successor to the Ingenuity helicopter is currently in development for use in this decade’s planned mission to return the Martian samples Perseverance is collecting to Earth. A larger helicopter concept is being researched so that it can carry a larger payload of scientific instruments for potential future Mars missions. Ground and air robots, as well as drilling systems for underground access, could play a role in NASA’s goal of manned missions to Mars about 20 years from now.
[ GRASP ]
