Video Friday is a weekly curation of cool robot videos collected by our friends. IEEE Spectrum Robotics. We also post a weekly schedule of upcoming robotics events over the next few months. Send us your events to be included.
RoboCup 2024: July 17-22, 2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands
ICRA@40: 23-26 September 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands
IROS 2024: October 14-18, 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
ICSR 2024: 23-26 October 2024, Odense, Denmark
Cybathlon 2024: 25-27 October 2024, Zurich
Enjoy today’s video!
At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman spoke with Unitree founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and VP of business development Tony Yang about the company’s latest humanoid, the G1 model.
Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pmDShvGOY
(Unitree)
Sacrifice your body for the robot
( WVUIRL )
From navigating uneven terrain outside the lab to pure visual perception, GR-1 continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
(Fourier)
Aerial manipulation has gained interest in completing high-altitude tasks that are difficult for human workers, such as contact inspection and defect detection. In this letter, we address a more general and dynamic task: simultaneous tracking of time-varying contact forces and motion trajectories on a tangent surface. We demonstrate an approach to the aerial calligraphy task using a novel sponge pen design as an end effector.
( CMU )
LimX Dynamics’ biped robot P1 has been kicked, hit and randomly shocked in the crowd, but the new design of the P1 has once again demonstrated its outstanding stability as a mobile platform.
( LimX Dynamics )
Thank you, Ouyan!
This is from ICRA 2018 and I think it’s pretty novel.
(Seoul National University Inroll)
I think someone needs to change the humor setting on this issue.
(Deep Robotics)
This paper summarizes the work of the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory on end-to-end neural control of quadcopters. The biggest challenge in making such controllers a reality is the “reality gap” between the real platform and the training environment. To address this, we combine online identification of the reality gap with pre-trained corrections via deep neural controllers, which is much more efficient than traditional computation of optimal solutions.
(MAV Lab)
This is a dedicated track actuator from HEBI Robotics. I really don’t understand why they don’t just call it a “tracker”.
(Heavy Robotics)
Menteebot can navigate complex environments by combining a 3D model of the world with a dynamic obstacle map. On its first day in a new location, Menteebot follows the person guiding the robot and generates a 3D model.
(Mentrobotics)
With a payload of 68 kg and a range of 70 km, this drone is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.
( Malloy )
AMBIDEX is a dual-arm robot with an innovative mechanism developed to coexist safely with humans. It is designed to be strong and stable based on an innovative cable structure.
Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhA-RWBBYU
(Naver Labs)
As quadrotors increasingly take on diverse roles, researchers often have to develop new hardware platforms tailored to specific tasks, resulting in significant engineering overhead. In this paper, we introduce the UniQuad series, an integrated and versatile quadrotor hardware platform series that offers high flexibility for adapting to a variety of common tasks, excellent customizability for advanced requirements, and easy maintenance in the event of a crash.
(HKUST)
(Visitor)
The “pill” (package hook) on Wing’s delivery drone is a critical component of our aircraft! Did you know that our package hook is aerodynamically designed and has stable flight characteristics even at 65 mph?
( wing )
Celebrating 50 years of robotics at ABB!
( abbreviation )
This JHU Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution seminar will be presented by Chen Li on the topic of geodynamics of animals and robots in complex terrain.
(after 18 weeks)
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