Video Friday: Googly Eye – IEEE Spectrum

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

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

ICRA 2023: 29 Could–2 June 2023, LONDON

RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE

RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA

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

CLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL

Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS

Get pleasure from right now’s movies!

THE EYE

[ Atonaton ]

Off-road terrain presents distinctive challenges for autonomous driving: steep slopes, ditches, rocks, vegetation, and ever-changing climate situations. To make sure that our software program stack is strong to something it might encounter, we’re continually within the discipline testing and studying. This video exhibits clips of our discipline actions in late 2022 and early 2023, together with our preliminary work with absolutely unoccupied autos.

Some actual DARPA Grand Problem vibes right here, besides the place these robots are going, they don’t want roads.

UW Off-road Autonomous Driving – Advanced Terrain to Quick Path | DARPA-funded Analysiswww.youtube.com

[ UW ]

On April 2, 2023, IHMC participated in Nationwide Robotics Week by opening its doorways to the general public. Previous the worldwide occasions of 2020, the IHMC Robotics Open Home was an annual occasion. This 12 months was the group’s first alternative to take part in Nationwide Robotics Week since then. Educational outreach is on the very basis of IHMC’s mission, and for sure…our complete group is extremely grateful to have the chance to repeatedly encourage future generations.

[ IHMC ]

Thanks, William!

Impressed by the adaptable nature of natural brains, researchers from MIT’s Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have launched a way for strong flight navigation brokers to grasp vision-based fly-to-target duties in intricate, unfamiliar environments. The liquid neural networks, which may constantly adapt to new knowledge inputs, confirmed prowess in making dependable choices in unknown domains like forests, city landscapes, and environments with added noise, rotation, and occlusion. These adaptable fashions, which outperformed many state-of-the-art counterparts in navigation duties, might allow potential real-world drone functions like search and rescue, supply, and wildlife monitoring.

[ MIT ]

Half a century for the reason that idea of a cyborg was launched, digital cyborgs, enabled by the unfold of wearable robotics, are the main focus of a lot analysis in latest occasions. We introduce JIZAI ARMS, a supernumerary robotic limb system consisting of a wearable base unit with six terminals and removable robotic arms controllable by the wearer.

[ CHI 2023 ]

This video captures a collection of experiments carried out at West Virginia College on the best way to rescue a caught planetary rover with one other rover. All experiments had been accomplished with human distant management by three operators: two rover drivers and a manipulator operator.

[ WVUIRL ]

It’s nonetheless type of wild to me that quadrupeds are adequate now that there are a number of viable use circumstances for them.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

What can robots truly do…right now? Can they assist the typical particular person beat a excessive jumper? “The Testing Lab” is a brand new collection from Michigan Robotics. They’ll put robots to the take a look at to see simply how far they’ve come, and the way far they nonetheless should go. The primary installment is concentrated on powered exoskeletons. These robotic exoskeletons have the potential of aiding a variety of customers, from those that do bodily labor to those that need assistance with mobility to the aged. Can it do one thing extra simply measurable, like bounce?

[ Neurobionics Lab ]

The CYBATHLON Challenges happened on 29 March 2023. There have been 15 groups collaborating in 5 completely different disciplines. The groups introduced unbelievable advances in assistive expertise to the competitors.

[ Cybathlon ]

It’s time to get rolling (or strolling, crawling…) once more. It’s been 29 years of Mobot (MObile Autonomous roBOTs) – with novel options, intelligent concepts, and nice contestants (throughout all disciplines). And never all Mobots should have wheels. The issue continues to be one and poses challenges to accommodate each novice and knowledgeable degree entries. There isn’t one method to construct a Mobot!

[ Mobot ]

This Carnegie Mellon College Robotics Institute (CMU RI) seminar is introduced by JPL’s Vandi Verma, on “Mars Robots and Robotics at NASA JPL.”

On this seminar I’ll focus on Mars robots, the unprecedented outcomes we’re seeing with the newest Mars mission, and the way we bought right here. Perseverance’s manipulation and sampling methods have collected samples from distinctive areas at twice the speed of any prior mission. 88% of all driving has been autonomous. This has enabled the mission to attain its prime goal to pick out, core, and deploy a high-value pattern assortment on the floor of Mars inside one Mars 12 months of touchdown. The Ingenuity helicopter has accomplished 49 flights on Mars. I’ll present an summary of robotics at JPL and focus on some open issues that if addressed might additional improve future house robotics.

[ CMU RI ]