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Discover how Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development uses robotics, artificial intelligence, and immersive technologies to bring stories to live! See how magic and innovation meet in the self-walking Olaf from World of Frozen, BDX Droids, and cutting-edge attractions such as Millennium Falcon: Smugglers’ Run.
Mentee has just released a demonstration of its V3 humanoid robotics working together to complete a real-world logistics task. Over an uninterrupted run of 18 minutes, the robots move 32 boxes autonomously from eight piles into storage racks at different heights. The video shows dexterous handling, reliable coordination, and steady locomotion throughout the entire task.
Thank you, Yovav!
This video contains graphic images of simulated injuries. Viewer discretion should be used.In an immersive overview led by retired Army Col. Jeremy C. Pamplin M.D. (DARPA Triage Challenge Program Manager), you’ll learn how teams of innovators and engineers are redefining combat casualty treatment. Look around! Check out the competition runs, what goes on behind-the scenes to put on a DARPA Challenge and glimpses into future lifesaving care.
The human medic and robot teaming at 6:50 was particularly cool.
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You don’t have to build a robot humanoid if you can make existing humanoids better.
I love 0:45, because… Humanoids should sit down more often, for many reasons. Thank you for getting up after falling, even if it was on some of the softest grass on earth.
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The best paper of the week is “Human-in the-Loop Gaussian Splatting”.
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Paper viaIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (19459112]
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Scratch that. “Extremum seeking controlled wiggling for tactile insertion” wins the best paper title of this week.
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The battery swapping is a pain. Unfortunate.
In order to push the boundaries of robotic capabilities, researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with The University of Washington, and Google Deepmind have developed a tactile sensing system which allows four-legged, cylindrical objects to be carried on their backs. LocoTouch is a system that uses a network of sensors to cover the entire robot’s back. The sensors give real-time feedback as an object moves, allowing the robots to adjust their posture and movements to keep the object in balance.
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This robot needs googly eyed more than any other robot that I’ve seen.
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DPR Construction deployed Field AI’s autonomous software on a quadrupled robot at its Santa Clara, CA job site to improve the daily data collection and surveying processes. Field AI automates a labor-intensive and time-consuming process that has been done by DPR for years. This helps the team to operate more efficiently, while improving project quality.
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In the second episode of AI in Motion with our host,
Waymo AI Researcher Vincent Vanhoucke, talks to a robotics startup Founder Sergey Levine who left a career as an academic researcher to build better robots at home and work.
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Discover how Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development uses robotics, artificial intelligence, and immersive technologies to bring stories to live! See how magic and innovation meet in the self-walking Olaf from World of Frozen, BDX Droids, and cutting-edge attractions such as Millennium Falcon: Smugglers’ Run.
Mentee has just released a demonstration of its V3 humanoid robotics working together to complete a real-world logistics task. Over an uninterrupted run of 18 minutes, the robots move 32 boxes autonomously from eight piles into storage racks at different heights. The video shows dexterous handling, reliable coordination, and steady locomotion throughout the entire task.
This video contains graphic images of simulated injuries. Viewer discretion should be used.In an immersive overview led by retired Army Col. Jeremy C. Pamplin M.D. (DARPA Triage Challenge Program Manager), you’ll learn how teams of innovators and engineers are redefining combat casualty treatment. Look around! Check out the competition runs, what goes on behind-the scenes to put on a DARPA Challenge and glimpses into future lifesaving care.
DARPA
Flexion
Paper viaIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (19459112]
IEEE Xplore ( ]]
University of Maryland PRG ( )
In order to push the boundaries of robotic capabilities, researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with The University of Washington, and Google Deepmind have developed a tactile sensing system which allows four-legged, cylindrical objects to be carried on their backs. LocoTouch is a system that uses a network of sensors to cover the entire robot’s back. The sensors give real-time feedback as an object moves, allowing the robots to adjust their posture and movements to keep the object in balance.
Carnegie Mellon University ( )
Zarrouk Lab ]
DPR Construction deployed Field AI’s autonomous software on a quadrupled robot at its Santa Clara, CA job site to improve the daily data collection and surveying processes. Field AI automates a labor-intensive and time-consuming process that has been done by DPR for years. This helps the team to operate more efficiently, while improving project quality.
FieldAI
In the second episode of AI in Motion with our host,
Waymo AI Researcher Vincent Vanhoucke, talks to a robotics startup Founder Sergey Levine who left a career as an academic researcher to build better robots at home and work.
