Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN

Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA

Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Might 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE

Get pleasure from as we speak’s movies!

Unitree B2: past the restrict. Most pace of 6m/s, sustained load of 40kg and sustained strolling endurance of 5h. The excellent efficiency is 2 to 3 occasions that of present quadruped robots worldwide! Adaptable to all terrains, giant load, long-lasting endurance, and tremendous athletic efficiency! Evolve, evolve, and evolve once more!

[ Unitree ]

This shape-changing robotic simply received loads smaller. In a brand new examine, engineers on the College of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robotic that may passively change its form to squeeze by slender gaps in a number of instructions. It weighs lower than a gram however can help over 3 times its physique weight as a further payload.

[ CU Boulder ]

Researchers at CMU used fossil proof to engineer a mushy robotic reproduction of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed practically 450 million years in the past and is believed to be one of many first echinoderms able to motion utilizing a muscular stem.

[ CMU ]

Stretch has moved over one million buyer bins in underneath a yr, enhancing predictability and stopping accidents. However how did we get there? Uncover how we put our experience in robotics analysis to make use of designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robotic. Ranging from the technological constructing blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, energy, and intelligence to automate the trade’s hardest challenges.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

What do the robots do on Halloween after everybody leaves? Be part of the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating journey. Pleased Halloween!

[ Queens University ]

Thanks Josh!

FreeLander is a flexible, modular legged-robot {hardware} platform with adaptive bio-inspired neural management. The robotic platform can be utilized to assemble completely different bio-inspired legged robots. Every module of the platform consists of two legs designed to operate as a two-legged robotic, which is ready to stroll on a metallic pipe utilizing electromagnetic ft. A number of modules could be mixed to acquire six-legged and eight-legged robots to stroll on troublesome terrains, equivalent to tough terrain, slopes, random stepfield, gravel, grass, and even in-pipe.

[ VISTEC ]

Thanks Poramate!

Power Robotics hopes you had a Pleased Halloween!

[ Energy Robotics ]

This work presents a digicam mannequin for refractive media equivalent to water and its utility in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The mannequin is self-calibrating in real-time and is freed from identified correspondences or calibration targets.

[ ARL ]

People naturally exploit haptic suggestions throughout contact-rich duties like loading a dishwasher or stocking a bookshelf. Present robotic programs deal with avoiding surprising contact, usually counting on strategically positioned setting sensors. On this paper we practice a contact-exploiting manipulation coverage in simulation for the contact-rich family job of loading plates right into a slotted holder, which transfers with none fine-tuning to the true robotic.

[ Paper ]

Thanks Samarth!

Offered herewith is one other PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) add-on system engineered to enhance the functionalities of the quadrupedal robotic, Boston Dynamics Spot. The system adeptly integrates two PAPRAS items onto the Spot, drawing inspiration from the mythological creature Orthrus—a two-headed canine in Greek mythology.

[ KIMLAB ]

Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD scholar and Early Levels Researcher (ESR) on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose present analysis focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing mushy supplies for industrial purposes. Her Grasp’s thesis was ‘UAV anti-stealth know-how for protected operation’. She labored as a Analysis Engineer at Inria, Lille nord Europe, Analysis Scholar at Tartu Institute of Expertise and a lecturer with the Mechatronics and Industrial Robotics Programme at Minia College, Egypt. Eldiwiny hosts the IEEE RAS Comfortable Robotics Podcast the place researchers from each Academia and Trade focus on current developments within the Comfortable Robotics analysis subject.

[ SMART ITN ]

3 labs. Totally different robotic options of the long run. Meet CSAIL’s machine mates.

[ MIT CSAIL ]

This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.

Numerous science fiction works have set our expectations for small, cellular, autonomous robots to be used in a broad vary of purposes. The flexibility to maneuver by extremely dynamic and complicated environments can increase capabilities in search and rescue operations and security inspection duties. These robots can even type a various collective to supply extra flexibility than a multifunctional robotic. I’ll current my work on the evaluation of management and energy necessities for this automobile, in addition to outcomes on the combination of onboard sensors. I additionally will focus on current outcomes that culminate practically 20 years of effort to create an influence autonomous insect-scale automobile. Lastly, I’ll define how this design technique could be readily utilized to different micro and bioinspired autonomous robots.

[ UPenn ]