Video Friday: Drones in Bushes

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Take pleasure in at present’s movies!

With the historic Kunming-Montreal Settlement of 18 December 2022, greater than 200 international locations agreed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. However changing into nature-positive is an formidable objective, additionally held-back by the shortage of environment friendly and correct instruments to seize snapshots of world biodiversity. This can be a job the place robots, together with environmental DNA (eDNA) applied sciences, could make a distinction.

Our current findings present a brand new approach to pattern floor eDNA with a drone, which could possibly be useful in monitoring biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems. The eDrone can land on branches and acquire eDNA from the bark utilizing a sticky floor. The eDrone collected floor eDNA from the bark of seven totally different timber, and by sequencing the collected eDNA we had been capable of determine 21 taxa, together with bugs, mammals, and birds.

[ ETH Zurich ]

Thanks, Stefano!

How can we convey limbed robots into actual world environments to finish difficult duties. Dr Dimitrios Kanoulas and the crew at UCL Laptop Science’s Robotic Notion and Studying Lab are exploring how we will use autonomous and semi autonomous robots to work in environments that people can’t.

[ RPL UCL ]

Thanks, Dimitrios!

Bidirectional design, four-wheel steering, and a compact size give our robotaxi distinctive agility and freedom of motion in dense city environments. Or in video games of tic-tac-toe. Might the perfect robotic win.

Okay, however how did they not finish this video with one of many automobiles drawing a “Z” off to the left aspect of the center row?

[ Zoox ]

Thanks, Whitney!

DEEP Robotics needs y’all comfortable, good well being within the 12 months of the rabbit!

Binkies!

[ Deep Robotics ]

This work presents a safety-critical locomotion management framework for quadrupedal robots. Our objective is to allow quadrupedal robots to soundly navigate in cluttered environments.

[ Hybrid Robotics ]

At 360.50 kph, that is the world pace document for a quadrotor.

[ Quad Star Drones ] through [ Gizmodo ]

When it rains, it pours—and we’re designing the Waymo Driver to deal with it. See how bathe checks, thermal chambers and rugged tracks at our closed-course amenities guarantee our system can navigate safely, irrespective of the forecast.

[ Waymo ]

You realize what’s simpler than selecting blueberries? Selecting greenberries, that are a lot much less squishy.

[ Sanctuary AI ]

The Official Wrap-Up of ABU ROBOCON 2022 New Delhi, India.

[ ROBOCON ]

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