Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll even be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months; this is what we now have to this point (ship us your occasions!):
ICRA 2022: 23–27 Could 2022, Philadelphia
ERF 2022: 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Germany
CLAWAR 2022: 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal
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Within the title of security, the Toyota Analysis Institute has been instructing automobiles to autonomously drift, the concept being that it may very well be a great way to take care of management of a car in an emergency.
This jogs my memory of some autonomous-driving analysis from again in 2009 (!) when Audi teamed up with Stanford to discover autonomy on the limits of car dealing with, together with autonomous drifting. This is a video from again then:
[ TRI ]
InfraredTags is a system for fabricating objects with embedded codes which can be seen solely to infrared cameras. These codes can be utilized for functions resembling metadata or interplay with units by way of augmented actuality.
That is cool, as a result of it is like a cheat code for robots, doubtlessly permitting laptop imaginative and prescient and vision-related duties by offering further data on demand.
[ MIT ]
On this video we exhibit totally autonomous multicontact locomotion for our humanoid robotic LOLA. In distinction to our earlier multicontact movies, the place contact factors for the ft and fingers needed to be specified manually by the consumer, this time all contacts are autonomously deliberate by the robotic itself based mostly on the perceived atmosphere.
[ TUM ]
The CMU ballbot is controlling its total physique to take care of steadiness on high of its ball whereas carrying a heavy payload. The ballbot is actively compensating for the extra payload weight.
Does not this look precisely just like the stereotype of a robotic butler?
[ CMU ]
Of all of the analysis I’ve seen with people and drones in shut proximity, that is the primary the place a protect has been used. I feel it is a completely affordable factor. I am simply questioning what occurred for the researchers to determine it was essential, you recognize?
[ Paper ]
Jimmy Fallon interacts with Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter’s robotic, which reveals off a dance in collaboration with BTS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hvWhE8nKwA
[ Boston Dynamics ]
I really like watching autonomous automobiles drive by way of city areas in Asia, as a result of it is such a completely totally different problem than we see in the US.
[ AutoX ]
Multirobot methods resembling swarms of aerial robots are naturally suited to supply further flexibility, resilience, and robustness in a number of duties in contrast with that of a single robotic by enabling cooperation among the many brokers. On this paper, we suggest a general-purpose Graph Neural Community (GNN) with the primary objective to extend, in multirobot notion duties, single robots’ inference notion accuracy in addition to resilience to sensor failures and disturbances.
[ Paper ]
The ExynAeo autonomously explores a waterlogged stope in Alaska as a survey workforce displays the robotic’s real-time progress whereas they keep heat and dry of their car.
Stope: a mixture of the phrases “subterranean” and “nope,” referring to underground areas the place you actually do not need to go.
[ Exyn ]
The world’s largest quadruped robotic cluster efficiency!
I might see the noise of 200 of these issues working abruptly turning into a little bit bit scary. Particularly in the event that they had been chasing you.
[ Unitree ]
SWIFTI works alongside an IRB1300 and a human employee on this demonstration assembling clocks. Designed to assist intermittent collaboration between human and cobot, the security laser scanner on SWIFTI creates secure zones for human employees to strategy.
These are among the least helpful clocks I’ve ever seen.
[ ABB ]
Comfortable, versatile fingers are precisely what you need in a meat-handling robotic.
[ Soft Robotics ]
Northrop Grumman is getting severe about ensuring the navy can deal with drones. And evil floor robots too, I suppose?
[ Northrop Grumman ]
Chen Li from Johns Hopkins provides a chat on “Dynamic multilegged locomotion in advanced terrain.”
Research of dynamic multilegged locomotion that started late final century have considerably superior our understanding of how animals stroll and run on comparatively easy, flat, inflexible surfaces and have led to the burgeoning of multilegged robots that accomplish that dynamically, stably, and effectively. Right here I’ll overview analysis during the last twenty years constructing on these early insights to additional perceive dynamic multilegged locomotion in advanced terrain.
[ JHU ]
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs from the College of Toronto provides an ICRA 2021 keynote: “I, Continuum Robotic.”
[ CRL ]