Video Friday: Unitree Talks Robots

Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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

ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE

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

Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH

Get pleasure from right now’s movies!

At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman sat down with Unitree Founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and Tony Yang, VP of Enterprise Growth, to speak concerning the firm’s latest humanoid, the G1 mannequin.

[ Unitree ]

SACRIFICE YOUR BODY FOR THE ROBOT

[ WVUIRL ]

From navigating uneven terrain outdoors the lab to pure imaginative and prescient notion, GR-1 continues to push the boundaries of what’s doable.

[ Fourier ]

Aerial manipulation has gained curiosity for finishing high-altitude duties which are difficult for human employees, akin to contact inspection and defect detection. This letter addresses a extra common and dynamic job: concurrently monitoring time-varying contact power and movement trajectories on tangential surfaces. We display the method on an aerial calligraphy job utilizing a novel sponge pen design because the end-effector.

[ CMU ]

LimX Dynamics Biped Robotic P1 was kicked and hit: Confronted with random impacts in a crowd, P1 with its new design as soon as once more showcased distinctive stability as a mobility platform.

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Thanks, Ou Yan!

That is from ICRA 2018, but it surely holds up fairly nicely within the novelty division.

[ SNU INRoL ]

I feel somebody must crank the humor organising on this one.

[ Deep Robotics ]

The paper summarizes the work on the Micro Air Car Laboratory on end-to-end neural management of quadcopters. A significant problem in bringing these controllers to life is the “actuality hole” between the true platform and the coaching surroundings. To handle this, we mix on-line identification of the truth hole with pre-trained corrections via a deep neural controller, which is orders of magnitude extra environment friendly than conventional computation of the optimum resolution.

[ MAVLab ]

It is a devoted Monitor Actuator from HEBI Robotics. Why they didn’t simply name it a “tracktuator” is past me.

[ HEBI Robotics ]

Menteebot can navigate complicated environments by combining a 3D mannequin of the world with a dynamic impediment map. On the primary day in a brand new location, Menteebot generates the 3D mannequin by following an individual who exhibits the robotic round.

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Right here’s that drone with a 68kg payload and 70km vary you’ve all the time wished.

[ Malloy ]

AMBIDEX is a dual-armed robotic with an progressive mechanism developed for protected coexistence with people. Primarily based on an progressive cable construction, it’s designed to be each robust and secure.

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As quadrotors tackle an more and more various vary of roles, researchers usually must develop new {hardware} platforms tailor-made for particular duties, introducing vital engineering overhead. On this article, we introduce the UniQuad sequence, a unified and versatile quadrotor {hardware} platform sequence that gives excessive flexibility to adapt to a variety of frequent duties, wonderful customizability for superior calls for, and simple upkeep in case of crashes.

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The video demonstrates the sphere testing of a 43 kg (95 lb) amphibious cycloidal propeller unmanned underwater car (Cyclo-UUV) developed on the Superior Vertical Flight Laboratory, Texas A&M College. The car makes use of a mix of cycloidal propellers (or cyclo-propellers), screw propellers, and tank treads for operations on land and underwater.

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The “capsule” (the package deal hook) on Wing’s supply drones is a vital part to our plane! Do you know our package deal hook is designed to be aerodynamic and has secure flight traits, even at 65 mph?

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Glad fiftieth to robotics at ABB!

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This JHU Middle for Practical Anatomy & Evolution Seminar is by Chen Li, on Terradynamics of Animals & Robots in Complicated Terrain.

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