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Is “scamperiest” a phrase? If not, it needs to be, as a result of that is the scamperiest robotic I’ve ever seen.
[ ABS ]
GITAI is happy to announce that its 1.5-meter-long autonomous twin robotic arm system (S2) has efficiently arrived on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (NG-20) to conduct an exterior demonstration of in-space servicing, meeting, and manufacturing (ISAM) whereas onboard the ISS. The success of the S2 tech demo will probably be a serious milestone for GITAI, confirming the feasibility of this expertise as a totally operational system in house.
[ GITAI ]
And if you wish to get exhausted on behalf of a robotic, the total 400m sprint is beneath.
[ Hybrid Robotics ]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter pushed aerodynamic limits throughout the remaining months of its mission, setting new data for velocity, distance, and altitude. Hear from Ingenuity chief engineer Travis Brown on how the info the workforce collected might ultimately be utilized in future rotorcraft designs.
[ NASA ]
BigDog: 15 years of fixing mobility issues its personal method.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
[Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences] researchers are serving to develop resilient and autonomous deep house and extraterrestrial habitations by creating applied sciences to let autonomous robots restore or exchange broken parts in a habitat. The analysis is a part of the Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi) is led by Purdue College, in partnership with [Harvard] SEAS, the College of Connecticut and the College of Texas at San Antonio. Its aim is to “design and function resilient deep house habitats that may adapt, soak up and quickly get better from anticipated and sudden disruptions.”
[ Harvard SEAS ]
Researchers from Huazhong College of Science and Expertise (HUST) in a current T-RO paper describe and assemble a novel variable stiffness spherical joint motor that allows dexterous movement and joint compliance in omni-directions.
[ Paper ]
Thanks Ram!
We’re instructed that this new robotic from HEBI known as “Mark Suckerberg” and that they’ve acquired a fairly cool utility in thoughts for it, to be revealed later this 12 months.
[ HEBI Robotics ]
Thanks Dave!
Dive into the primary version of our new Actual-World-Robotics class at ETH Zürich! Our college students launched into an unimaginable journey, creating their human-like robotic fingers from scratch. In simply three months, the groups designed, constructed, and programmed their tendon-driven robotic fingers, mastering dexterous manipulation with reinforcement studying! The consequence? A spectacular show of innovation and talent throughout our grand remaining.
[ SRL ETHZ ]
Adaptive Cellular Manipulation undertaking from Carnegie Mellon College! Primarily based on AgileX Robotics’s RangerMini2.0 cell robotic, Combine sensors akin to robotic arm and depth digital camera to finish to be a accomplished answer, which may understand the capabilities of clever motion and processing.
[ AgileX ]
Picassnake is our custom-made robotic that paints photos from music. Picassnake consists of an arm and a head, embedded in an opulent snake doll. The robotic is related to a laptop computer for management and music processing, which could be fed via a microphone or an MP3 file. To open the media supply, an operator can use the graphical person interface or place a textual content QR code in entrance of a webcam. As soon as the media supply is opened, Picassnake generates distinctive strokes based mostly on the music and interprets the strokes to bodily motion to color them on canvas.
[ Picassnake ]
In April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter grew to become the primary spacecraft to attain powered, managed flight on one other world. With 72 profitable flights, Ingenuity has far surpassed its initially deliberate expertise demonstration of as much as 5 flights. On Jan. 18, Ingenuity flew for the ultimate time on the Crimson Planet. Be a part of Tiffany Morgan, NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Deputy Director, and Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Undertaking Supervisor, as they talk about these historic flights and what they may imply for future extraterrestrial aerial exploration.
[ NASA ]