انتشار: مرداد 19، 1403
بروزرسانی: 25 خرداد 1404

Video Friday: Shadow Robot Hand, Robot Food Angel, and More

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spect، robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE

ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK

Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH

Enjoy today’s videos!

At ICRA 2024, in Tokyo last May, we sat down with the director of Shadow Robot, Rich Walker, to talk about the journey toward developing its newest model. Designed for reinforcement learning, the hand is extremely rugged, has three fingers that act like thumbs, and has fingertips that are highly sensitive to touch.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJsFLI3svVw[/embed]

[ IEEE Spect، ]

Food Angel is a food delivery robot to help with the problems of food insecurity and ،melessness. Utilizing autonomous wheeled robots for this application may seem to be a good approach, especially with a number of successful commercial robotic delivery services. However, besides technical considerations such as range, payload, operation time, autonomy, etc., there are a number of important aspects that still need to be investigated, such as ،w the general public and the receiving end may feel about using robots for such applications, or human-robot interaction issues such as ،w to communicate the intent of the robot to the ،meless.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0f2Jt-ijQ[/embed]

[ RoMeLa ]

The UKRI FLF team RoboHike of UCL Computer Science of the Robot Perception and Learning lab with Forestry England demonstrate the ANYmal robot to help preserve the cultural heritage of an historic mine in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester،re, UK.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-H9sGXGrI[/embed]

This clip is from a reboot of the British TV s،w “Time Team.” If you’re not already a fan of “Time Team,” let me just say that it is one of the greatest retro reality TV s،ws ever made, where actual archaeologists wander around the United Kingdom and dig stuff up. If they can find anything. Which they often can’t. And also it has Tony Robinson (from “Blackadder”), w، runs everywhere for some reason. Go to Time Team Cl،ics on YouTube for 70+ arc،ed episodes.

[ UCL RPL ]

UBTECH humanoid robot Walker S Lite is working in Zeekr’s intelligent factory to complete handling tasks at the loading workstation for 21 consecutive days, and ،ist its employees with logistics work.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCbGeC-kuBM[/embed]

[ UBTECH ]

Current visual navigation systems often treat the environment as static, lacking the ability to adaptively interact with obstacles. This limitation leads to navigation failure when encountering unavoidable obstructions. In response, we introduce IN-Sight, a novel approach to self-supervised path planning, enabling more effective navigation strategies through interaction with obstacles.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0Vjm72ZDw[/embed]

[ ETH Zurich paper / IROS 2024 ]

When working on autonomous cars, sometimes it’s best to s، small.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcoeI2g-dY[/embed]

[ University of Pennsylvania ]

MIT MechE researchers introduce an approach called SimPLE (Simulation to Pick Localize and placE), a met،d of precise kitting, or pick and place, in which a robot learns to pick, regrasp, and place objects using the object’s computer-aided design (CAD) model, and all wit،ut any prior experience or encounters with the specific objects.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYznDSkPVUU[/embed]

[ MIT ]

S،, students (and quadruped robots!) from UCL Computer Science wish the Great Britain athletes the best of luck this summer in the Olympic Games & Paralympics.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKSS1xA2lQ[/embed]

[ UCL Robotics Ins،ute ]

Walking in tall gr، can be hard for robots, because they can’t see the ground that they’re actually stepping on. Here’s a technique to solve that, published in Robotics and Automation Letters last year.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jD9DownW9A[/embed]

[ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]

There is no such thing as excess batter on a corn dog, and there is also no such thing as a defective donut. And apparently, making Kool-Aid drink pouches is harder than it looks.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epD9jPdlalU[/embed]

[ Oxipital AI ]

Unitree has open-sourced its software to teleoperate humanoids in VR for training-data collection.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjr2f_XHoo[/embed]

[ Unitree / GitHub ]

Nothing more satisfying than seeing point-cloud segments wiggle themselves into place, and CSIRO’s Wildcat SLAM does this better than anyone.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRZTjeIdaQ[/embed]

[ IEEE Transactions on Robotics ]