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Fourier Intelligence has simply introduced the mass manufacturing of their GR-1 humanoid, and so they’ve bought at the very least a dozen of them.

[ Fourier Intelligence ]

Thanks, Ni Tao!

This collaborative work between researchers from the College of Southern Denmark and VISTEC introduces a biomorphic delicate robotic pores and skin for a hexapod robotic platform, that includes a central sample generator–based mostly neural controller for producing respiratory-like motions on the pores and skin. The design permits visuo-haptic nonverbal communication between people and robots and improves the robotic’s aesthetics by enhancing its biomorphic qualities.

[ Paper ]

Thanks, Mads!

In response to information from 2010, round 1.8 million folks in the USA can’t eat on their very own. But coaching a robotic to feed folks presents an array of challenges for researchers. A workforce led by researchers on the College of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm could make to choose up almost any meals attainable by fork. In assessments with this set of actions, the robotic picked up the meals greater than 80 p.c of the time, which is the user-specified benchmark for in-home use. The small set of actions permits the system to study to choose up new meals throughout one meal.

[ UW ]

Thanks, Stefan!

If you happen to watch sufficient robotic movies, you get to know when a robotic is being pushed in a approach that’s simple to recuperate from, and when it’s really being challenged. The top of this video reveals IHMC’s Nadia getting pushed sideways towards its planted foot, which necessitates a crossover step restoration.

[ Paper ] by way of [ IHMC ]

Thanks, Robert!

Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu College, desires to construct woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. And once you’re a professor, you’ll be able to simply try this.

Additionally, woodpeckers are bizarre.

[ Ayato Kanada ]

Thanks, Ayato!

Discover Tevel’s joint robotic fruit-harvesting pilot program with Kubota on this video, filmed in the course of the 2023 apple harvest season within the Mazzoni Group’s orchards in Ferrara, Italy. Watch as our autonomous fruit-picking programs function with precision, skillfully harvesting numerous apples within the idyllic Italian orchards.

[ Tevel ]

Understanding what’s an impediment and what’s solely obstacle-ish has at all times been difficult for robots, however Spot is making some progress right here.

[ EVORA ]

We tried to play Road Fighter 6 by teleoperating Reachy! Effectively, it didn’t go as deliberate, as Antoine gained. But it surely was a reasonably epic battle!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

The important thing belongings of an information middle are the servers. Whereas most of them are lively within the server room, idle and new belongings are saved within the IT warehouse. Focusing primarily on this IT warehouse, SeRo automates the inbound and outbound administration of the information middle’s belongings.

[ Naver Labs ]

People will be so imply.

[ Flexiv ]

Fascinating HRI with the flashing gentle on Spot right here.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Flying in circles with an enormous tank of gasoline actually looks like a greater job for a robotic pilot than for a human one.

[ Boeing ]

On 2 November 2023, at an occasion hosted by the Swiss Affiliation of Aeronautical Sciences at ETH, Professor Davide Scaramuzza introduced a complete overview of our newest developments in autonomous drone know-how geared toward reaching human-level efficiency.

[ UZH RPG ]