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Take pleasure in as we speak’s movies!
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made historical past when it achieved the primary powered, managed flight on one other planet on April 19, 2021. Since then, it has exceeded expectations and most just lately executed its fiftieth flight on Mars. This video highlights Ingenuity’s flights, captured by the Perseverance Rover’s WATSON and Mastcam-Z cameras, in addition to Ingenuity’s coloration Return to Earth (RTE) digicam and its black-and-white navigation digicam.
50 flights is 45 flights greater than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. It has exceeded the anticipated cumulative flight time by 1,250%, and the anticipated distance flown by 2,214%. Wow.
[ JPL ]
Georgia Tech researchers have just lately created a comfortable rotary motor utilizing liquid steel, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. The motor could be squished and squeezed in all instructions, which might sooner or later enhance the compatibility between people and robots and prolong the aptitude of soppy robots. This comfortable motor is orders of magnitude sooner and stronger than beforehand developed comfortable motors with a stall torque of three mN·m and a no-load pace of as much as 4000 rpm. This pace approaches the aptitude of conventional exhausting motors! To showcase this new know-how, the comfortable motor is utilized in a wide range of functions from squeeze-based pace management to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy automotive. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the hole between the capabilities of conventional exhausting motors and novel comfortable actuator ideas.
[ Paper ] by way of [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ]
Thanks, Noah!
DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complicated Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program just lately carried out its third experiment to evaluate the efficiency of off-road unmanned automobiles. These take a look at runs, carried out 12-27 March, included the primary with utterly uninhabited RACER Fleet Automobiles (RFVs), with a security operator overseeing in a supporting chase car. The purpose of the RACER program is to display autonomous motion of combat-scale automobiles in complicated, mission-relevant off-road environments which are considerably extra unpredictable than on-road situations.
The a number of programs have been within the difficult and unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert on the U.S. Military’s Nationwide Coaching Heart (NTC) in Ft. Irwin, California. As on the earlier occasions, groups from Carnegie Mellon College, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the College of Washington participated. Moreover, researchers from the Military Analysis Laboratory demonstrated the flexibleness of the performer workforce’s autonomy software program, crucial to transitioning RACER capabilities to the companies. This accomplished the challenge’s first part.
[ DARPA ]
Comfortable Easter from ANYbotics!
[ ANYbotics ]
Robots aren’t excellent, however neither are individuals! And 99% uptime over the period of a 4 day commerce present continues to be spectacular.
[ Agility Robotics ]
Watching a robotic attempt to wipe up a spill actually hammers dwelling how a lot of a bonus people nonetheless have with regards to manipulation.
[ Google AI ]
Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that may assist us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably. Our general-purpose robots could be operated in three modes: straight piloted by individuals; operated by individuals utilizing pilot-assist; and supervised by individuals whereas utilizing the robotic’s built-in autonomous management system to look at, assess, and act on duties. This video explains the method and advantages of teleoperation mode when Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots are piloted by individuals.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
We’ve constructed our robotaxi from the bottom up. To really take a look at it, we’ve needed to break it aside. Within the ultimate episode of Placing Zoox to the Take a look at, we clarify how our robotaxi is designed to move probably the most rigorous crash exams and summarize the method from pre-crash simulations to component-level exams and post-crash testing.
[ Zoox ]
Extra tails for robots!
I suppose luxurious leather-based baggage want fatigue testing too.
[ qb robotics ]
At all times cool to see completely different teleoperation interfaces.
[ Extend Robotics ]
There have been some exams of how X20 handled antagonistic environments a number of years in the past; In a while, these capabilities are come to appreciate in real-world functions just like the Hazard Rescue answer. There are extra functions on their manner; Finally, assist people full not possible missions with no threat.
[ Deep Robotics ]
NAVER LABS is conducting joint analysis on “Pure Robotic Movement Era” with Professor Choi Sung-joon and his workforce at Korea College Robotic Intelligence Lab. The analysis entails making varied motions with ‘AMBIDEX’ that has human-like joint constructions and testing individuals’s responses to the motions. It goals to seek out out when individuals suppose a robotic’s motions look pure.
[ Naver Labs ]
This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore Faculty, on “Robotics schooling and analysis at a liberal arts school.”
On this discuss, I’ll describe the transition from a research-intensive PhD to a place at a teaching-focused undergraduate establishment within the context of my very own profession trajectory. Key matters embrace connections between robotics and the liberal arts, and tips for graduate college students who’re interested in pursuing teaching-focused school jobs.
[ UPenn ]
