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IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN

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

Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Might 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE

Get pleasure from at this time’s movies!

Unitree B2: past the restrict. Most velocity of 6m/s, sustained load of 40kg and sustained strolling endurance of 5h. The great efficiency is 2 to 3 occasions that of present quadruped robots worldwide! Adaptable to all terrains, giant load, long-lasting endurance, and tremendous athletic efficiency! Evolve, evolve, and evolve once more!

[ Unitree ]

This shape-changing robotic simply received quite a bit smaller. In a brand new examine, engineers on the College of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robotic that may passively change its form to squeeze by means of slim gaps in a number of instructions. It weighs lower than a gram however can assist over 3 times its physique weight as an extra payload.

[ CU Boulder ]

Researchers at CMU used fossil proof to engineer a gentle robotic reproduction of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed practically 450 million years in the past and is believed to be one of many first echinoderms able to motion utilizing a muscular stem.

[ CMU ]

Stretch has moved over 1,000,000 buyer bins in underneath a 12 months, enhancing predictability and stopping accidents. However how did we get there? Uncover how we put our experience in robotics analysis to make use of designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robotic. Ranging from the technological constructing blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, energy, and intelligence to automate the business’s hardest challenges.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

What do the robots do on Halloween after everybody leaves? Be a part of the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating journey. Completely satisfied Halloween!

[ Queens University ]

Thanks Josh!

FreeLander is a flexible, modular legged-robot {hardware} platform with adaptive bio-inspired neural management. The robotic platform can be utilized to assemble completely different bio-inspired legged robots. Every module of the platform consists of two legs designed to operate as a two-legged robotic, which is ready to stroll on a metallic pipe utilizing electromagnetic ft. A number of modules might be mixed to acquire six-legged and eight-legged robots to stroll on troublesome terrains, reminiscent of tough terrain, slopes, random stepfield, gravel, grass, and even in-pipe.

[ VISTEC ]

Thanks Poramate!

Vitality Robotics hopes you had a Completely satisfied Halloween!

[ Energy Robotics ]

This work presents a digital camera mannequin for refractive media reminiscent of water and its utility in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The mannequin is self-calibrating in real-time and is freed from identified correspondences or calibration targets.

[ ARL ]

People naturally exploit haptic suggestions throughout contact-rich duties like loading a dishwasher or stocking a bookshelf. Present robotic techniques concentrate on avoiding sudden contact, usually counting on strategically positioned setting sensors. On this paper we prepare a contact-exploiting manipulation coverage in simulation for the contact-rich family activity of loading plates right into a slotted holder, which transfers with none fine-tuning to the true robotic.

[ Paper ]

Thanks Samarth!

Offered herewith is one other PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) add-on system engineered to reinforce the functionalities of the quadrupedal robotic, Boston Dynamics Spot. The system adeptly integrates two PAPRAS items onto the Spot, drawing inspiration from the mythological creature Orthrus—a two-headed canine in Greek mythology.

[ KIMLAB ]

Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD pupil and Early Levels Researcher (ESR) on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose present analysis focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing gentle supplies for industrial functions. Her Grasp’s thesis was ‘UAV anti-stealth know-how for secure operation’. She labored as a Analysis Engineer at Inria, Lille nord Europe, Analysis Scholar at Tartu Institute of Know-how and a lecturer with the Mechatronics and Industrial Robotics Programme at Minia College, Egypt. Eldiwiny hosts the IEEE RAS Comfortable Robotics Podcast the place researchers from each Academia and Trade talk about latest developments within the Comfortable Robotics analysis area.

[ SMART ITN ]

3 labs. Completely different robotic options of the longer term. Meet CSAIL’s machine mates.

[ MIT CSAIL ]

This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.

Numerous science fiction works have set our expectations for small, cell, autonomous robots to be used in a broad vary of functions. The flexibility to maneuver by means of extremely dynamic and complicated environments can broaden capabilities in search and rescue operations and security inspection duties. These robots may kind a various collective to supply extra flexibility than a multifunctional robotic. I’ll current my work on the evaluation of management and energy necessities for this automobile, in addition to outcomes on the combination of onboard sensors. I additionally will talk about latest outcomes that culminate practically twenty years of effort to create an influence autonomous insect-scale automobile. Lastly, I’ll define how this design technique might be readily utilized to different micro and bioinspired autonomous robots.

[ UPenn ]