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We current Morphy, a novel compliant and morphologically conscious flying robotic that integrates sensorized versatile joints in its arms, thus enabling resilient collisions at excessive speeds and the flexibility to squeeze via openings narrower than its nominal dimensions.
Morphy represents a brand new class of sentimental flying robots that may facilitate unprecedented resilience via improvements each within the “physique” and “mind.” The novel delicate physique can, in flip, allow new avenues for autonomy. Collisions that beforehand needed to be averted have now turn into acceptable dangers, whereas areas which are untraversable for a sure robotic dimension can now be negotiated via self-squeezing. These novel bodily interactions with the surroundings may give rise to new kinds of embodied intelligence.
[ ARL ]
Thanks, Kostas!
Segments of every day coaching for robots pushed by reinforcement studying. A number of exams executed upfront for pleasant service people. The coaching consists of some excessive exams. Please don’t imitate!
[ Unitree ]
Sphero is just not solely nonetheless round, it’s making new STEM robots!
[ Sphero ]
Googly eyes mitigate all robotic failures.
[ WVUIRL ]
Right here I’m, with out the flexibility or gear (or need) required to iron something that I personal, and Flexiv’s received robots on the market ironing fancy leather-based automotive seats.
[ Flexiv ]
Thanks, Noah!
We unveiled a major leap ahead in notion know-how for our humanoid robotic GR-1. The newly tailored pure-vision answer integrates chook’s-eye view, transformer fashions, and an occupancy community for exact and environment friendly environmental notion.
[ Fourier ]
Thanks, Serin!
LimX Dynamics’ humanoid robotic CL-1 was launched in December 2023. It climbed stairs based mostly on real-time terrain notion, two steps per stair. 4 months later, in April 2024, the second demo video showcased CL-1 in the identical state of affairs. It had superior to climb the identical stair, one step per stair.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
Thanks, Ou Yan!
New analysis from the College of Massachusetts Amherst exhibits that programming robots to create their very own groups and voluntarily wait for his or her teammates leads to sooner activity completion, with the potential to enhance manufacturing, agriculture, and warehouse automation.
[ HCRL ] through [ UMass Amherst ]
Thanks, Julia!
LASDRA (Giant-size Aerial Skeleton with Distributed Rotor Actuation system (ICRA18) is a scalable and modular aerial robotic. It might assume a really slender, lengthy, and dexterous type issue and may be very light-weight.
[ SNU INRoL ]
We suggest augmenting initially passive constructions constructed from easy repeated cells, with novel lively models to allow dynamic, shape-changing, and robotic functions. Impressed by metamaterials that may make use of mechanisms, we construct a framework that enables customers to configure cells of this passive construction to permit it to carry out advanced duties.
[ CMU ]
Testing autonomous exploration on the Exyn Workplace utilizing Spot from Boston Dynamics. On this demo, Spot autonomously explores our flight house whereas on the hunt for one in all our engineers.
[ Exyn ]
Meet Heavy Picker, the strongest robotic in bulky-waste sorting and an absolute professional at lifting and sorting waste. With expertise that will make a live performance pianist jealous and a piece ethic that by no means wants espresso breaks, Heavy Picker was looking out for brand new challenges.
[ Zen Robotics ]
AI is the most important and most consequential enterprise, monetary, authorized, technological, and cultural story of our time. On this panel, you’ll hear from the underrepresented neighborhood of girls scientists who’ve been main the AI revolution—from the start to now.
[ Stanford HAI ]