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Enjoy today's videos!
This probably counts as hard mode for Ikea chair assembly.
[ Naver Lab ]
As anyone working with robotics knows, it’s mandatory to spend at least 10 percent of your time just mucking about with them because it’s fun, as GITAI illustrates with its new 10-meter robotic arm.
[ GITAI ]
Well, this is probably the weirdest example of domain randomization in simulation for quadrupeds that I’ve ever seen.
[ RSL ]
The RoboCup 2022 was held in Bangkok, Thailand. The final match was between B-Human from Bremen (jerseys in black) and HTWK Robots from Leipzig (jerseys in blue). The video starts with one of our defending robots starting a duel with the opponent. After a short time a pass is made to another robot, which tries to score a goal, but the opponent goalie is able to catch the ball. Afterwards another attacker robot is already waiting at the center circle, to take its chance to score a goal, through all four opponent robots.
[ Team B-Human ]
The mission to return Martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5-meter-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for a historic interplanetary delivery.
[ ESA ]
I still cannot believe that this is an approach to robotic fruit-picking that actually works.
[ Tevel Aerobotics ]
This video shows the basic performance of the humanoid robot Torobo, which is used as a research platform for JST’s Moonshot R&D program.
[ Tokyo Robotics ]
Volocopter illustrates why I always carry two violins with me everywhere. You know, just in case.
[ Volocopter ]
We address the problem of enabling quadrupedal robots to perform precise shooting skills in the real world using reinforcement learning. Developing algorithms to enable a legged robot to shoot a soccer ball to a given target is a challenging problem that combines robot motion control and planning into one task.
[ Hybrid Robotics ]
I will always love watching Cassie try very, very hard to not fall over, and then fall over. <3
I don’t think this paper is about teaching bipeds to walk with attitude, but it should be.
[ DLG ]
Modboats are capable of collective swimming in arbitrary configurations! In this video you can see three different configurations of the Modboats swim across our test space and demonstrate their capabilities.
[ ModLab ]
How have we built our autonomous driving technology to navigate the world safely? It comes down to three easy steps: Sense, Solve, and Go. Using a combination of lidar, camera, radar, and compute, the Waymo Driver can visualize the world, calculate what others may do, and proceed smoothly and safely, day and night.
[ Waymo ]
Alan Alda discusses evolutionary robotics with Hod Lipson and Jordan Pollack on Scientific American Frontiers in 1999.
Brady Watkins gives us insight into how a big company like Softbank Robotics looks into the robotics market.
[ Robohub ]
Evan Ackerman is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.
