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ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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At ICRA 2024, in Tokyo final Might, we sat down with the director of Shadow Robot, Wealthy Walker, to speak in regards to the journey in the direction of creating their latest mannequin. Designed for reinforcement studying, the hand is extraordinarily rugged, has three fingers that act like thumbs, and has fingertips which might be extremely delicate to the touch.
[ IEEE Spectrum ]
Meals Angel is a meals supply robotic to assist with the issues of meals insecurity and homelessness. Using autonomous wheeled robots for this utility might appear to be an excellent method, particularly with numerous profitable business robotic supply providers. Nonetheless, apart from technical issues equivalent to vary, payload, operation time, autonomy, and so on., there are a selection of necessary points that also should be investigated, equivalent to how most of the people and the receiving finish might really feel about utilizing robots for such purposes, or human-robot interplay points equivalent to methods to talk the intent of the robotic to the homeless.
[ RoMeLa ]
The UKRI FLF workforce RoboHike of UCL Pc Science of the Robotic Notion and Studying lab with Forestry England reveal the ANYmal robotic to assist protect the cultural heritage of an historic mine within the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.
This clip is from a reboot of the British TV present “Time Crew.” Should you’re not already a fan of “Time Crew,” let me simply say that it is without doubt one of the best retro actuality TV exhibits ever made, the place precise archaeologists wander across the U.Ok. and dig stuff up. If they will discover something. Which they typically can’t. And in addition it has Tony Robinson (from “Blackadder”), who runs in every single place for some cause. Go to Time Team Classics on YouTube for 70+ archived episodes.
[ UCL RPL ]
UBTECH humanoid robotic Walker S Lite is working in Zeekr’s clever manufacturing unit to finish dealing with duties on the loading workstation for 21 consecutive days, and help its staff with logistics work.
[ UBTECH ]
Present visible navigation techniques typically deal with the atmosphere as static, missing the power to adaptively work together with obstacles. This limitation results in navigation failure when encountering unavoidable obstructions. In response, we introduce IN-Sight, a novel method to self-supervised path planning, enabling simpler navigation methods by way of interplay with obstacles.
[ ETH Zurich paper / IROS 2024 ]
When engaged on autonomous vehicles, typically it’s greatest to begin small.
[ University of Pennsylvania ]
MIT MechE researchers introduce an method known as SimPLE (Simulation to Decide Localize and placE), a way of exact kitting, or decide and place, through which a robotic learns to choose, regrasp, and place objects utilizing the thing’s computer-aided design (CAD) mannequin, and all with none prior expertise or encounters with the particular objects.
[ MIT ]
Employees, college students (and quadruped robots!) from UCL Pc Science want the Nice Britain athletes one of the best of luck this summer season within the Olympic Video games & Paralympics.
Strolling in tall grass may be onerous for robots, as a result of they will’t see the bottom that they’re really stepping on. Right here’s a method to resolve that, printed in Robotics and Automation Letters final yr.
[ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]
There is no such thing as a such factor as extra batter on a corn canine, and there may be additionally no such factor as a faulty donut. And apparently, making Kool-Assist drink pouches is tougher than it seems to be.
[ Oxipital AI ]
Unitree has open-sourced its software program to teleoperate humanoids in VR for training-data assortment.
[ Unitree / GitHub ]
Nothing extra satisfying than seeing point-cloud segments wiggle themselves into place, and CSIRO’s Wildcat SLAM does this higher than anybody.
[ IEEE Transactions on Robotics ]
A lecture by Mentee Robotics CEO Lior Wolf, on Mentee’s AI method.
[ Mentee Robotics ]
