Robotic Movies: Leaping Robotic Legs, 3D Printing, and Extra

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Researchers on the Max Planck Institute for Clever Techniques and ETH Zurich have developed a robotic leg with synthetic muscle tissues. Impressed by residing creatures, it jumps throughout totally different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient method.

[ Nature ] through [ MPI ]

Thanks, Toshi!

ETH Zurich researchers have now developed a quick robotic printing course of for earth-based supplies that doesn’t require cement. In what is called “impression printing,” a robotic shoots materials from above, regularly constructing a wall. On impression, the components bond collectively, and really minimal components are required.

[ ETH Zurich ]

How might you not be excited to see this occur for actual?

[ arXiv paper ]

Can all of us agree that sanding, grinding, deburring, and sprucing duties are actually greatest completed by robots, for probably the most half?

[ Cohesive Robotics ]

Thanks, David!

Utilizing doorways is a longstanding problem in robotics and is of serious sensible curiosity in giving robots larger entry to human-centric areas. The duty is difficult as a result of want for on-line adaptation to various door properties and exact management in manipulating the door panel and navigating by means of the confined doorway. To deal with this, we suggest a learning-based controller for a legged manipulator to open and traverse by means of doorways.

[ arXiv paper ]

Isaac is the primary robotic assistant that’s constructed for the house. And we’re transport it in fall of 2025.

Fall of 2025 is an extended sufficient time from now that I’m not even going to invest about it.

[ Weave Robotics ]

By patterning liquid steel paste onto a mushy sheet of silicone or acrylic foam tape, we developed stretchable variations of standard inflexible circuits (like Arduinos). Our mushy circuits may be stretched to over 300% pressure (over 4x their size) and are built-in into energetic mushy robots.

[ Science Robotics ] through [ Yale ]

NASA’s Curiosity rover is exploring a scientifically thrilling space on Mars, however speaking with the mission group on Earth has just lately been a problem attributable to each the present season and the encompassing terrain. On this Mars Report, Curiosity engineer Reidar Larsen takes you contained in the uplink room the place the group talks to the rover.

[ NASA ]

I like this and need to burn it with hearth.

[ Carpentopod ]

Fairly often, folks ask us what Reachy 2 is able to, which is why we’re displaying you the manipulation potentialities (by means of teleoperation) of our expertise. The robotic proven on this video is the Beta model of Reachy 2, our new robotic coming very quickly!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

The Scalable Autonomous Robots (ScalAR) Lab is an interdisciplinary lab targeted on basic analysis issues in robotics that lie on the intersection of robotics, nonlinear dynamical programs principle, and uncertainty.

[ ScalAR Lab ]

Astorino is a 6-axis instructional robotic created for sensible and reasonably priced instructing of robotics in faculties and past. It has been created with 3D printing, so it permits for experimentation and the doable addition of components. With its design and programming, it replicates the actions of #KawasakiRobotics industrial robots, giving college students the required abilities for future work.

[ Astorino ]

I suppose fish-fillet-shaping robots must exist as a result of in any other case clients will freak out if all their fish fillets are usually not an identical, or one thing?

[ Flexiv ]

Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission—Europe’s bold exploration journey to seek for previous and current indicators of life on Mars. The rover will dig, accumulate, and examine the chemical composition of fabric collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin would be the first rover to achieve a depth of as much as two meters under the floor, buying samples which have been protected against floor radiation and excessive temperatures.

[ ESA ]