Video Friday: Guitar Bot – IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll even be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months; this is what we’ve got to date (ship us your occasions!):

ICRA 2022: 23–27 Could 2022, Philadelphia

ERF 2022: 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Germany

CLAWAR 2022: 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal

Tell us when you’ve got recommendations for subsequent week, and revel in right now’s movies.

Robotics. It is a depraved sport.

[ GA Tech ]

This experiment demonstrated the newest progress of flying humanoid robotic Jet-HR2. The brand new management technique permits the robotic to hover with place suggestions from the movement seize system. Video demonstrates the robotic’s capability to stay secure hovering in mid-air for greater than 20 seconds.

[ YouTube ]

Thanks, Zhifeng!

This tremendous cool tender robotic finger from TU Berlin is ready to learn braille with astonishing accuracy through the use of sound as a sensor.

[ TU Berlin ]

Cassie Blue navigates round furnishings handled as obstacles within the Ford Robotics Constructing on the College of Michigan. All of the clips on this video are 1x on goal to indicate Cassie’s movement.

[ Michigan Robotics ]

Thanks, Bruce!

Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee obtained a Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) Nationwide Robotics Initiative (NBI) collaborative grant for a challenge that goals to deal with—and ameliorate—the best way folks with mobility points are given an opportunity for improved management and independence over their environments, particularly how they’re fed—or higher, how they’ll feed themselves with robotic help.

[ Cornell ]

A novel quadcopter able to altering form mid-flight is introduced, permitting for operation in 4 configurations with the potential of sustained hover in three.

[ HiPeR Lab ]

Two EPFL analysis teams teamed as much as develop a machine-learning program that may be linked to a human mind and used to command a robotic. This system adjusts the robotic’s actions primarily based on electrical indicators from the mind. The hope is that with this invention, tetraplegic sufferers will be capable to perform extra day-to-day actions on their very own.

[ EPFL ]

The MRV is SpaceLogistics’ next-generation on-orbit servicing car incorporating a robotic arm payload developed and built-in by the U.S. Naval Analysis Laboratory and offered by the U.S. Protection Superior Analysis Initiatives Company. On this check of Flight Robotic Arm System 1, the robotic arm is executing an train known as the Gauntlet which strikes the arm by way of a collection of poses that train the complete movement of all seven levels of freedom.

[ Northrop Grumman ]

You virtually actually cannot afford it, however The Shadow Robotic Firm wish to remind you that the Shadow Hand is on the market.

[ Shadow ]

Be part of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer inside Kibo, the Japanese laboratory module of the Worldwide House Station in 360°, organising Astrobee robotic free-flyers for the ReSWARM experiment. Brief for RElative Satellite tv for pc sWArming and Robotic Maneuvering, this robotics demonstration assessments autonomous microgravity movement planning and management for on-orbit meeting and coordinated movement.

[ NASA ]

Boeing’s MQ-25 autonomous aerial tanker continues its provider testing.

[ Boeing ]

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[ Sphero ]

ADIBOT-A is UBTECH Robotics’ fully-loaded autonomous disinfection answer that may be programmed and mapped to independently navigate one or a number of flooring plans.

[ UBTECH ]

SURVICE was proud to assist the profitable completion of the Unmanned Logistics System – Air (ULS-A) Joint Functionality Know-how Demonstration (JCTD) program because the lead system integrator. We labored with the U.S. authorities, leaders in autonomous unmanned methods, and our Warfighters to develop, check, and consider the newest multirotor VTOL platforms and applied sciences for assured logistics resupply on the ahead fringe of the battlefield.

[ SURVICE ] by way of [ Malloy Aeronautics ]

Thanks Chris!

Yaqing Wang from JHU’s Terradynamics Lab provides a chat on attempting to make a robotic that’s anyplace close to as gifted as a cockroach.

[ Terradynamics Lab ]

In Episode One among Season Two of The Robotic Brains podcast, host Pieter Abbeel is joined by visitor (and shut collaborator) Sergey Levine, professor at UC Berkeley, EECS. Sergey discusses the early years of his profession, how Andrew Ng influenced him to turn into concerned with machine studying, his present tasks, and his lab’s latest accomplishments.

[ The Robot Brains ]

Thanks, Alice!