Video Friday: Robotic Hippotherapy Horse-Riding Simulator

Video Clip Friday is your regular option of remarkable robotics video clips, gathered by your buddies at IEEE Range robotics. We likewise publish an once a week schedule of upcoming robotics occasions for the following couple of months. Please send us your events for addition.

ICUAS 2025: 14– 17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, N.C.

ICRA 2025: 19– 23 Might 2025, ATLANTA

London Humanoids Summit: 29– 30 Might 2025, LONDON

IEEE RCAR 2025: 1– 6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN

2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16– 18 June 2025, HOUSTON

RSS 2025: 21– 25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer School: 21– 27 June 2025, GENEVA

IAS 2025: 30 June– 4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY

ICRES 2025: 3– 4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL

IEEE World Haptics: 8– 11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA

IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15– 18 July 2025, PARIS

RoboCup 2025: 15– 21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL

RO-MAN 2025: 25– 29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS

CLAWAR 2025: 5– 7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA

CoRL 2025: 27– 30 September 2025, SEOUL

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September– 2 October 2025, SEOUL

World Robot Summit: 10– 12 October 2025, OSAKA

IROS 2025: 19– 25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA

Take pleasure in today’s video clips!

Today I found out that “hippotherapy” is not rather what I desired it to be.

The assimilation of KUKA robotics right into robot physical rehabilitation tools provides many benefits, such as accurate movement preparation and control of robot-assisted treatment, personalized training, decreased specialist work and patient-progress surveillance. Therefore, these robot treatments can be above several traditional physical treatments in restabilizing individuals’ arm or legs.

[ Kuka ]

MIT designers are participating the robot ping-pong video game with an effective, light-weight layout that returns shots with high-speed accuracy. The brand-new table-tennis crawler consists of a multijointed robot arm that is taken care of to one end of a ping-pong table and possesses a typical ping-pong paddle. Assisted by numerous high-speed electronic cameras and a high-bandwidth anticipating control system, the robotic swiftly approximates the rate and trajectory of an inbound round and implements among numerous swing kinds– loophole, drive, or slice– to specifically strike the round to a wanted area on the table with different kinds of spin.

[ MIT News ]

Frying pan turning includes dynamically turning different items, such as eggs, hamburger buns, and meat patties. This shows accuracy, dexterity, and the capacity to adjust to various obstacles moving control. Our structure allows robotics to find out very vibrant activities.

[ GitHub ] through [ Human Centered Autonomy Lab ]

Many Thanks, Haonan!

An edible robotic made by EPFL researchers leverages a mix of eco-friendly gas and surface area stress to zoom around the water’s surface area, developing a risk-free– and healthy– alternate to ecological surveillance tools made from fabricated polymers and electronic devices.

[ EPFL ]

Standard quadcopters master trip dexterity and ability to move however commonly deal with constraints in floating effectiveness and straight field of vision. Nature-inspired rotating wings, while providing a wider viewpoint and improved floating effectiveness, are interfered with by significant angular energy limitations. In this research study, we present QuadRotary, an unique lorry that incorporates the toughness of both trip attributes with a reconfigurable layout.

[ Paper ] through [ Singapore University of Technology and Design ]

I such as the concept of a humanoid that utilizes jumping as a primary locomotion mode not due to the fact that it needs to, however due to the fact that it’s enjoyable.

[ PAL Robotics ]

I had actually not understood just how much subtlety there is to excavating things up with a shovel.

[ Intelligent Motion Laboratory ]

A brand-new 10,000-gallon [38,000-liter] water storage tank at the College of Michigan will certainly aid scientists layout, construct, and examine a range of self-governing undersea systems that can aid robotics map lakes and seas and perform assessments of ships and bridges. The storage tank, moneyed by the Workplace of Naval Study, permits roboticists to more examination jobs on robotic control and actions, aquatic noticing and assumption, and multivehicle sychronisation.

” The tradition is that this aids to jump-start study, as each screening storage tank is a living storage tank for every one of the understanding got from within it,” claimed Jason Bundoff, lead designer in study at U-M’s Friedman Marine Hydrodynamics Research Laboratory. “You blend the waters from various other containers to imbue the freshly established storage tank with every one of that living understanding from the various other containers, which aids to maintain the understanding from being shed.”

[ Michigan Robotics ]

If you have a humanoid robotic and you’re asking yourself exactly how it needs to interact, right here’s the response.

[ Pollen ]

Whose side are you on, Dusty?

Also building robotics ought to be conscious concerning house siding with the Realm, though there can be repercussions!

– YouTube

[ Dusty Robotics ]

This Michigan Robotics Workshop is by Danfei Xu from Georgia Technology, on “Generative Job and Activity Preparation.”

Long-horizon preparation is basic to our capacity to address intricate physical troubles, from making use of devices to cooking suppers. In spite of current development in commonsense-rich structure designs, the capacity to do the very same is still doing not have in robotics, specifically with learning-based strategies. In this talk, I will certainly provide a body of job that intends to change Job and Activity Preparation– among one of the most effective computational structures in robotic preparation– right into a totally generative design structure, allowing compositional generalization in a mainly data-driven technique.

[ Michigan Robotics ]