Video Friday: Agilicious – IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

HRI 2023: 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM

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, KOREA

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

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

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

Take pleasure in right now’s movies!

Agilicious is a co-designed {hardware} and software program framework tailor-made to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 on the Robotics and Notion Group of the College of Zurich. Agilicious is totally open-source and open {hardware} and helps each model-based and neural-network-based controllers!

[ Agilicious ]

Flexiv’s adaptive robotic masseur fuses pressure management, laptop imaginative and prescient, and synthetic intelligence to emulate the talent and dexterity of a human therapeutic massage therapist.

[ Flexiv ]

Freely impressed by Jean de la Fontaine’s “The Wolf and the Lamb”, Coperni’s vogue present in Paris. options the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. Not like the unique fable written within the seventeenth century, which raises questions regarding the steadiness of energy between the human teams that make up society, Coperni reinterprets the story and transposes it to the 12 months of 2023 with a constructive imaginative and prescient of the long run. The determine of the wolf is changed by Spot robots, whereas the lambs by human beings. The style present tells the story of their assembly, their mutual taming and their cohabitation. The present presents Coperni’s imaginative and prescient which is that there’s neither a dominant nor a dominated, however that the mankind and machine stay in concord.

[ Coperni ]

Meet the third-generation prototype Honda Autonomous Work Car (AWV), a brand new class of succesful work car that may function autonomously in quite a lot of dynamic work environments. The Honda AWV has the potential to convey better efficiencies, enhanced workforce productiveness, and higher environmental efficiency to the development trade, and to different industries searching for an autonomous off-road answer.

[ Honda ]

Skydio’s partnership with WeRobotics supplies microgrant scholarships to Flying Labs throughout the globe, with Nepal Flying Labs being chosen as a recipient for his or her mission to create a digital twin of Changu Narayan Temple, the oldest temple in Kathmandu Valley, courting again to the fifth Century.

[ Skydio ]

That is maybe the jauntiest gait I’ve ever seen in a humanoid robotic.

[ GitHub ]

Fascinating “autoloader” for Wing supply drones.

[ Wing ]

On this video, we showcase how robots can be taught from human consultants to grasp complicated job sequencing in varied manufacturing processes, resembling floor ending and composite layup. We display how robots can be taught the knowledgeable’s job sequencing insurance policies for composite layup job and carry out execution on a model new take a look at half.

[ USC Viterbi ]

We current a sim-to-real learning-based strategy for real-world humanoid locomotion. We don’t use state estimation, dynamics fashions, trajectory optimization, reference trajectories, or pre-computed gait libraries. Our controller is skilled with large-scale model-free reinforcement studying on an ensemble of randomized environments in simulation and deployed to the actual world in a zero-shot vogue. To one of the best of our data, that is the primary demonstration of a totally learning-based methodology for real-world full-sized humanoid locomotion.

[ Paper ]

Roboball? Roboball.

[ Texas A&M ]

This work addresses the issue of energetic collaborative localization of robotic groups with unknown information affiliation. Specifically, it includes positioning a small variety of equivalent unmanned floor autos (UGVs) at desired positions in order that an unmanned aerial car (UAV) can, by way of unlabelled measurements of UGVs, uniquely decide its world pose. This work allows sturdy localization in perceptually challenged GPS-denied environments, thus paving the highway for large-scale multi-robot navigation and mapping.

[ UPenn ]

This work presents a multi-segment vine robotic that may navigate complicated paths with out interacting with its surroundings. That is achieved by a brand new steering methodology that selectively actuates every single pouch on the tip, offering excessive levels of freedom with few management inputs.

[ Paper ]

TBNET and DEEP Robotics deployed Jueying X20 quadruped robotic with two high-precision surveying and mapping tools. It has accomplished on-site information assortment within the complicated terrain of actual scenes resembling indoor and out of doors building websites, electrical tower teams, railways, underground garages, and historic buildings.

[ DeepRobotics ]

Right here’s a fast take a look at RoMeLa’s novel robotic limb EEMMMa (Elastic Extending Mechanism for Mobility and Manipulation), a long-reach metal tentacle that may each lengthen and bend. It may be used to deploy grappling hooks for climbing, and morph its form to bend round obstacles. This may enable it to put cameras and retrieve samples from hard-to-reach locations. The limb’s distinctive tape spring building ends in a flexible, light-weight, and compact system. This may allow future cell robots to maneuver simply and safely by way of extremely unstructured terrain resembling forests or cave techniques.

[ RoMeLa ]

Micro Robots are a revolutionary new know-how that would change how we work together with the world round us. For the primary time, a collaborative analysis staff {of electrical} and laptop engineers, with assist from NSF, has put in digital brains on solar-powered microbots the dimensions of a human hair. One of many largest challenges is their small size-requiring exterior management, resembling a pc or smartphone, limiting their vary and making the bots troublesome to govern remotely till now.

[ NSF ]

A staff of scientists, engineers, and designers embark on an Arctic expedition to check house know-how. The MIT House Exploration Initiative expedition in Svalbard was not merely an area analog mission, however an expertise to learn to assist allow higher entry to distant areas from the far corners of planet Earth, to the Moon, and Mars.

[ MIT ]

The Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, has essentially the most superior autonomous driving functionality ever flown to Mars. Having such a sophisticated functionality contributes to the rover’s difficult mission to find indicators of life that will have existed on Mars in a distant previous. This discuss supplies an summary on the present analysis and improvement efforts on robotics autonomy at JPL, with an emphasis on enhancing the protection, effectivity, and efficiency of robotic mobility by way of the purposes of risk-aware resolution making and machine studying.

[ JPL ]

An interactive webinar discussing the potential and the trail towards general-purpose robotic manipulation. This would be the first in a sequence, hosted by Northwestern’s Heart for Robotics and Biosystems, dedicated to this grand problem of robotics.

[ Northwestern ]