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Gemini Robotics 1.5 is our most capable vision-language-action (VLA) model that converts visual information and instructions for a robot to a task to motor command. This model thinks before taking action and shows its process, helps to assess robots and complete complex functions more transparently. It also learns in avatar, accelerates skills learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uobzwjpb6xm
, Google Deepmind ,
A simple “force bridge” gesture brings Carter directly into his hand. This is a great example of how an intuitive interaction can turn complex technology into the expansion of our intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB73RRL3HDK
, Roost.ai ,
I can’t help it, I feel bad for this poor small robot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owbnt87cmki
, Urban Robotics Laboratory, Qist ,
Hey look, no leg!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydlz54unyy
, QINI Robotics ,
Researchers at Michigan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a soft robot that can crawl with a flat path and climb vertical surfaces using their unique original structure. The robot can go with an accuracy that is usually seen only in rigid robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wszmj6knw
, University of Michigan Robotics ,
Unitree G1 has learned “Anti-Gravity” mode: stability under any action sequence has improved greatly, and even if it falls, it may return quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpslmx_v38e
, Unilateral ,
Capler robotics has introduced mass production of the world’s first commercially available Humanoid robot’s K2 bumblers operated by Tesla’s hybrid architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iadq_1ulirq
, Capler robotics ,
Strengthening Learning (RL)-Locomosotion controllers with undisclosed legs often require careful reward tuning to track velocity or target positions while preserving smooth speeds on different areas. Motion copying methods via RL using display data reduce reward engineering but fail to normalize novels. We address it by proposing a hierarchical RL structure in which a low-level policy is pre-educated earlier, which is pre-educated to mimic animal movements on the flat ground, which leads to speed priests. The real-world experiments with any-D-D quadient robot confirmed our policy ability that we reflect smooth and efficient locomotion and local navigation performance, to normalize animal-like locomosotion skills in complex areas, which is between challenging areas with obstacles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G20GEADN6GM
, Ethz RSL ,
I think we have entered the ‘discrimination-novel’ phase of the robot vacuum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmuw_mn2odg
, Roborock ,
In this work, we present kinethreads: A new full-edged heptic exosit design built around string-based motor-pulse mechanisms, which lighter (<5kg), soft and flexible, quick-to-wier (<30 seconds), comparatively low cost (~ 400), and now rendering, and now Able to render foreforful (up).
, ACM seminar on user interface and software technology ,
In this episode of IBM AI in Action Podcast, Aaron Saunders, CTOs of Boston Dynamics, in the transforming capacity of AI-operated robotics, are getting safe and widely accessible through robotics as a service (RAAS).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtfw4v9a_c
, IBM ,
This CMU Ri Seminar Michael T. Talli is from UCSD, on ‘biologically inspired soft robotics’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rounxcn3RC
Robotics have the ability to address many pressures in areas ranging from healthcare to disaster relief. However, the traditional approaches used on the factory floor do not perform well in an unnecessary environment. The key to solving many of these challenges is to detect new, non-conventional designs. Fortunately, nature surrounds us with examples of novel methods of navigating and interacting with the real world. Dr. Tole’s bioenesspied robotics and design labs try to borrow major principles of operating from biological systems and apply them to robotic design.
, Carnegie Melon University Robotics Institute ,
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