Robot Videos: Jumping Robotic Legs, 3D Printing, and More

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Researchers on the Max Planck Institute for Clever Methods and ETH Zurich have developed a robotic leg with synthetic muscle tissue. Impressed by residing creatures, it jumps throughout completely different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient method.

[ Nature ] by way of [ MPI ]

Thanks, Toshi!

ETH Zurich researchers have now developed a quick robotic printing course of for earth-based supplies that doesn’t require cement. In what is called “impression printing,” a robotic shoots materials from above, progressively constructing a wall. On impression, the components bond collectively, and really minimal components are required.

[ ETH Zurich ]

How may you not be excited to see this happen for real?

[ arXiv paper ]

Can all of us agree that sanding, grinding, deburring, and sprucing duties are actually greatest performed by robots, for essentially the most half?

[ Cohesive Robotics ]

Thanks, David!

Using doors is a longstanding problem in robotics and is of serious sensible curiosity in giving robots better entry to human-centric areas. The duty is difficult because of the want for on-line adaptation to various door properties and exact management in manipulating the door panel and navigating by means of the confined doorway. To handle this, we suggest a learning-based controller for a legged manipulator to open and traverse by means of doorways.

[ arXiv paper ]

Isaac is the primary robotic assistant that’s constructed for the house. And we’re transport it in fall of 2025.

Fall of 2025 is a protracted sufficient time from now that I’m not even going to take a position about it.

[ Weave Robotics ]

By patterning liquid metallic paste onto a smooth sheet of silicone or acrylic foam tape, we developed stretchable versions of conventional rigid circuits (like Arduinos). Our smooth circuits may be stretched to over 300% pressure (over 4x their size) and are built-in into lively smooth robots.

[ Science Robotics ] by way of [ Yale ]

NASA’s Curiosity rover is exploring a scientifically thrilling space on Mars, however speaking with the mission staff on Earth has lately been a problem because of each the present season and the encircling terrain. On this Mars Report, Curiosity engineer Reidar Larsen takes you contained in the uplink room the place the staff talks to the rover.

[ NASA ]

I like this and need to burn it with hearth.

[ Carpentopod ]

Fairly often, folks ask us what Reachy 2 is able to, which is why we’re displaying you the manipulation prospects (by means of teleoperation) of our know-how. The robotic proven on this video is the Beta model of Reachy 2, our new robotic coming very quickly!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

The Scalable Autonomous Robots (ScalAR) Lab is an interdisciplinary lab centered on basic analysis issues in robotics that lie on the intersection of robotics, nonlinear dynamical methods concept, and uncertainty.

[ ScalAR Lab ]

Astorino is a 6-axis instructional robotic created for sensible and reasonably priced educating of robotics in faculties and past. It has been created with 3D printing, so it permits for experimentation and the doable addition of components. With its design and programming, it replicates the actions of #KawasakiRobotics industrial robots, giving college students the mandatory expertise for future work.

[ Astorino ]

I suppose fish-fillet-shaping robots have to exist as a result of in any other case clients will freak out if all their fish fillets should not equivalent, or one thing?

[ Flexiv ]

Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission—Europe’s formidable exploration journey to seek for previous and current indicators of life on Mars. The rover will dig, accumulate, and examine the chemical composition of fabric collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin would be the first rover to succeed in a depth of as much as two meters beneath the floor, buying samples which were protected against floor radiation and excessive temperatures.

[ ESA ]