Video Friday: Grain Weevil – IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 Might 2023, BOSTON

ICRA 2023: 29 Might–2 June 2023, LONDON

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IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA

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Get pleasure from at present’s movies!

That is the Grain Weevil, and it’s designed to maintain people out of grain bins. I really like this as a result of it’s a wonderful instance of how you can remedy an actual, worthwhile downside uniquely with a comparatively easy, targeted robotic.

[ Grain Weevil ]

As town of Paris sleeps, Spot is tough at work inspecting a few of RATP Group’s 35,000 civil works parts. The RATP Group (Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration), is a French state-owned public transport operator and maintainer for the Better Paris space. With hundreds of civil works to examine annually, the corporate has turned to cell robotics to examine hard-to-reach and unsafe areas with the intention to preserve workers out of hurt’s manner.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Thanks, Renee!

Seems like Agility Robotics and the brand new Digit had a productive (and standard!) time at ProMat.

[ Agility Robotics ]

I nonetheless can’t consider that this is smart. But it surely does?

[ Tevel ]

Unitree sells a lidar now, and it’s $330.

[ Unitree ]

We lately had the privilege to host Madeline Gannon (robotic whisperer and head of ATONATON) at our HQ in Portland. It’s no shock {that a} week in our store resulted in a sport of business basketball with our ABB IRB 8700-turned basketball hoop.

[ Loupe ]

Thanks, Madeline!

We demonstrated Stretch, our autonomous case dealing with robotic, automating trailer unloading at Promat 2023. From effectivity to ease of use, hear from our workforce to learn the way Stretch works, what’s new, and what’s coming subsequent for warehouse automation!

[ Boston Dynamics ]

KAIST has developed a quadrupedal robotic locomotion know-how that strikes up and down stairs with out the help of visible or tactile sensors in a catastrophe state of affairs the place it’s not possible to see as a consequence of smoke and strikes with out falling over bumpy environments equivalent to tree roots.

[ KAIST ]

Right here’s how Pickle’s box-unloading robotic has been doing.

[ Pickle Robot ]

Fairly probably probably the most damaging fight robotic ever designed has been revamped and is heading to RoboGames 2023.

Use the code “HardCore” for a reduction in your RoboGames tickets!

[ RoboGames ]

Is AI smarter than infants? Relies upon what you imply by smarter, after all.

[ NSF ]

Somebody can do that via a telepresence robotic and I can’t even do it in actual life, sigh.

[ Sanctuary AI ]

Chen Li, from the Terradynamics Lab at JHU, provides a chat on “The Want for & Feasibility of Different Robots to Traverse Sandy & Rocky Extraterrestrial Terrain.”

[ JHU ]