Your weekly choice of superior robot videos
Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally submit a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
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This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed fuel, proper off the 3D-printer. It may also be printed in a single go, from one materials. Researchers from the College of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robotic in a complicated on-line publication within the journal Superior Intelligent Systems. They used the only know-how accessible: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design strategy just isn’t solely strong, it is usually low cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.
And particulars!
[ Paper ] by way of [ University of California San Diego ]
Why would you like a humanoid robot to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I suppose, nevertheless it’s laborious to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle groups that we do will transfer optimally by simply attempting to imitate us.
[ Figure ]
I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little comfortable robotic worm someway strikes with an unimaginable quantity of character.
Soft actuators are vital for enabling soft robots, medical devices, and haptic programs. Many comfortable actuators, nevertheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on laborious circuitry for management, limiting their potential purposes. On this work, the primary comfortable electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Georgia Tech ]
Thanks, Ellen!
A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this had been a human doing it.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
My colleagues had been impressed by this cooking robotic, however that could be as a result of journalists are all the time impressed by free meals.
[ Posha ]
That is our newest work a few hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robotic known as SPIDAR, which exhibits distinctive and sophisticated locomotion types in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been introduced within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2024.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Dragon Lab ]
Thanks, Moju!
This recent, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck velocity of humanoid intelligence development. Day by day brings one thing thrilling!
[ Unitree ]
There ought to be extra robots that you could journey round on.
[ AgileX Robotics ]
There ought to be extra robots that put on hats at work.
[ Ugo ]
iRobot, who pioneered big docks for robot vacuums, is now shifting away from big docks for robotic vacuums.
[ iRobot ]
There’s a well-known experiment the place if you happen to put a useless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. By some means, you are able to do the identical factor with an unactuated quadruped robotic on a treadmill.
[ Delft University of Technology ]
Mush! Narrowly!
[ Hybrid Robotics ]
It’s freaking me out a bit bit that this couple is seemingly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and nil different people.
[ MagicLab ]
I’m attempting, I actually am, however the yellow is simply not working for me.
[ Kepler ]
By having Stretch tackle the bodily demanding process of unloading trailers stacked flooring to ceiling with packing containers, Hole Inc has diminished accidents, lowered turnover, and watched staff get enthusiastic about automation meant to maintain them secure.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to raised perceive the previous and current habitability of the Crimson Planet. Of specific curiosity to its search are organic molecules: the constructing blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone known as “Cumberland,” the biggest organics but found on Mars.
[ NASA ]
This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Foundation Models.
Basic-purpose pretrained fashions have reworked natural language processing, computer vision, and different fields. In precept, such approaches ought to be very best in robotics: since gathering massive quantities of information for any given robotic platform and software is more likely to be troublesome, common pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current a really perfect recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world purposes.
From the angle of common AI analysis, such approaches additionally provide a promising and intriguing strategy to a number of the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present various bodily capabilities, this is able to shed gentle not solely on the sensible questions round designing broadly succesful robots, however the foundations of located problem-solving, bodily understanding, and choice making. Nevertheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with quite a few difficult obstacles. What information lets use to coach robotic basis fashions? What would be the coaching goal? How ought to alignment or post-training be finished? On this speak, I’ll talk about how we are able to strategy a few of these challenges.
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