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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complicated Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program not too long ago carried out its fourth experiment (E4) to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned autos. These exams, carried out in Texas in late 2023, had been the primary time this system examined its new automobile, the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP). The video reveals autonomous route following for mobility testing and demonstration, together with sensor level cloud visualizations.
The 12-ton RHP is considerably bigger than the 2-ton RACER Fleet Autos (RFVs) already in use in this system. Utilizing the algorithms on a really totally different platform helps RACER towards its purpose of platform agnostic autonomy of combat-scale autos in advanced, mission-relevant off-road environments which can be considerably extra unpredictable than on-road circumstances.
[ DARPA ]
In our new Science Roboticspaper, we introduce an autonomous navigation system developed for our wheeled-legged quadrupeds, designed for quick and environment friendly navigation inside massive city environments. Pushed by neural community insurance policies, our easy, unified management system allows clean gait transitions, sensible navigation planning, and extremely responsive impediment avoidance in populated city environments.
[ Github ]
Era 7 of “Phoenix” robots embody improved human-like vary of movement. Enhancements in uptime, visible notion, and tactile sensing enhance the potential of the system to carry out advanced duties over longer intervals. Design iteration considerably decreases construct time. The pace at which new duties will be automated has elevated 50x, marking a significant inflection level in job automation pace.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’re proud to have a good time our one millionth industrial supply—that’s one million deliveries of lifesaving blood, important vaccines, last-minute groceries, and a lot extra. However the very best half? That is only the start.
[ Zipline ]
Work these hips!
[ RoMeLa ]
This factor is sort of terrifying, and I’m fascinated by it.
[ AVFL ]
We suggest a novel humanoid TWIMP, which mixes a human mimetic musculoskeletal higher limb with a two-wheel inverted pendulum. By combining the good thing about a musculoskeletal humanoid, which may obtain smooth contact with the exterior setting, and the good thing about a two-wheel inverted pendulum with a small footprint and excessive mobility, we will simply examine studying management methods in environments with contact and sudden affect.
From Humanoids 2018.
Thanks, Kento!
Ballbots are uniquely able to pushing wheelchairs—arguably higher than legged platforms, as a result of they will transfer in any path with out having to reposition themselves.
[ Paper ]
Cost Robotics is constructing robots that automate essentially the most labor-intensive components of photo voltaic building. Photo voltaic has quickly change into the most affordable type of energy technology in lots of areas. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the first barrier to getting it put in is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots take away the labor bottleneck, permitting building corporations to satisfy the rising demand for photo voltaic, and enabling the world to change to renewables quicker.
[ Charge Robotics ]
Robots doing precision meeting is cool and all, however these vibratory bowl sorters seem to be magic.
[ FANUC ]
The QUT CGRAS undertaking’s robotic prototype captures photos of child corals, destined for the Nice Barrier Reef, monitoring and counting them in develop tanks. The crew makes use of state-of-the-art AI algorithms to robotically detect and depend these coral infants and observe their development over time – saving human counting money and time.
[ QUT ]
We’re conducting analysis to develop Unmanned Aerial Programs to help in wildfire monitoring. The hazardous, dynamic, and visually degraded setting of wildfire offers rise to many unsolved basic analysis challenges.
[ CMU ]
Right here’s somewhat extra video of that robotic elevator, however I’m questioning why it’s so gradual—clamp these bots in there and rocket that elevator up and down!
[ NAVER ]
In March 2024, Northwestern College’s Heart for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated the Omnid cell collaborative robots (mocobots) at MARS, a convention in Ojai, California on Machine studying, Automation, Robotics, and Area, hosted by Jeff Bezos. The “swarm” of mocobots is designed to collaborate with people, permitting a human to simply manipulate massive, heavy, or awkward payloads. On this case, the mocobots cancel the impact of gravity, so the human can simply manipulate the mock airplane wing in six levels of freedom. Basically, human-cobot methods mix the very best of human capabilities with the very best of robotic capabilities.
[ Northwestern ]
There’s one thing so soothing about watching a lithium battery get wrecked and burn for 8 minutes.
EELS, or Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, is a flexible, snake-like robotic designed for exploration of beforehand inaccessible terrain. This speak on EELS was introduced on the 2024 Amazon MARS convention.
[ JPL ]
The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock an exquisite new world of potentialities in on a regular basis life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the way in which machines assume, she reveals how “liquid networks”—a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of straightforward organisms—might assist clever machines course of info extra effectively and provides rise to “bodily intelligence” that may allow AI to function past digital confines and interact dynamically in the true world.
[ TED ]
