Video Friday is a weekly selection of great robotics videos from our friends. IEEE spectrum Robotics. We’ll also post a weekly calendar of robot events happening over the next few months. please Please send an event to include.
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Enjoy today’s video!
Introducing GENE-26.5, the first AI brain that gives robots human-level physical manipulation capabilities. Cook a fulfilling meal. Crack an egg with one hand. Conduct lab experiments. wire harness. Even playing the piano. A job impossible for robots. Until now.
[ Genesis AI ] via [ TechCrunch ]
This is a lovebot, one of the most unusual monsters on the planet. Twelve Labub heads reassembled into a single spherical shape, the Frankenstein monster of pop culture iconography. Labububot is a playful critique of social robots and a physical inquiry into what the monsters we create reveal about us.
[ MIT Media Lab ]
Watch Spot crouch, jump, climb boxes, and leap over gaps, controlled by a neural network trained with reinforcement learning (RL) and multi-expert distillation.
[ Robotics and AI Institute ]
Okay, now I have a robot that does the exercise for me.
[ Kepler ]
Although additive manufacturing has become a viable technology, existing technologies cannot directly 3D print high-current electromagnetic actuators due to material and design limitations. In this study, a novel 3D printable multilayer wave-wound topology is created for high-efficiency electric motors.
[ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ]
NASA is pushing the limits of flight on Mars by spinning helicopter rotor blades so fast that they break the sound barrier. During a recent test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers accelerated the tips of next-generation rotor blades to over Mach 1 in a special chamber that simulated Martian atmospheric conditions.
[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ]
Balancing commercial goals and robotics research can be difficult, but Atlas does it well.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Open Duck Mini is an open source version of Disney’s BDX droid that you can play in your browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsXXSuiXB4
[ Open Duck Mini Viewer ]
Thank you, Masato!
Automated inspection of steel structures using magnetic climbing robots can reduce costs and improve safety, but many such structures have interior corners that are difficult for wheeled or tracked robots to traverse. We introduce Sally, the first magnetic wheeled robot to use X-ray fluorescence to inspect steel structures. This robot can overcome all inside corner transition types, cross small obstacles and maneuver in tight spaces.
[ Robomechanics Lab ]
We don’t know what this is, but it’s coming soon from SwitchBot.
[ SwitchBot ]
You probably already know the answers to these questions, but this ELI5 by Aaron Ames is still fun.
[ Wired ]
Jim Huang, head of Nvidia’s Embodied Autonomy Research Group, returns to AI Ascent and argues that robotics is in its final moments and the strategy is already written.
[ Sequoia ]
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