Video Friday: Robot Bees

Video Friday is your weekly selection of superior robotics movies, quiet by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the following couple of months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

ICRA 2024: 13–17 Also can 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN

RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS

ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK

Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH

Revel in this day’s movies!

Festo has robotic bees!

It’s a truly brilliant invent, however the scale makes me shrinking of in spite of the bees are that Festo appears to be acquainted with.

[[Festo ]

Boing, boing, boing!

[[USC ]

Why the heck would you seize the anguish to program a robotic to create candy potato chips after which no longer scarf them down yourself?

[[Dino Robotics ]

Mobile robots can transport payloads far better than their mass by procedure of vehicle traction. On the opposite hand, off-avenue terrain aspects noteworthy variation in high, grade, and friction, which would possibly perhaps per chance reason traction to degrade or fail catastrophically. This paper items a system that makes use of a vehicle-mounted, multipurpose manipulator to physically adapt the robotic with outlandish anchors impartial for a particular terrain for self reliant payload transport.

[[DART Lab ]

Looks that working on a collaborative task with a robotic can create humans much less atmosphere pleasant, on myth of we are inclined to overestimate the robotic’s capabilities.

[[CHI 2024 ]

Cruise posts a video with the title “What Function Cruise’s Drones Sound Admire” but most racy entails a fast snippet—though nothing with out background room noise—revealing to weird viewers and listeners exactly what Cruise’s drones sound like.

Because, search, a pair seconds of muted audio underneath a voiceover is now not any doubt no longer no doubt answering the count on.

[[Cruise ]

This first instance of ROB 450 in Winter 2024 challenged college students to synthesize the knowledge got by procedure of their Robotics undergraduate classes at the University of Michigan to make utilize of a scientific and iterative invent and diagnosis direction of and apply it to solving a true, originate-ended Robotics scenario.

[[Michigan Robotics ]

This Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI Seminar is from Catie Cuan at Stanford, on “Choreorobotics: Educating Robots The style to Dance With Folks.”

As robots transition from industrial and study settings into everyday environments, robots wants with a thought to (1) be taught from humans while cashing in on the elephantine vary of the humans’ info and (2) be taught to engage with humans in protected, intuitive, and social suggestions. I would possibly showcase a series of compelling robotic behaviors, where human belief and interaction are foregrounded in a unfold of duties.

[[UMD ]