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Video Friday is your weekly collection of wonderful robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE spectrum robotics We additionally publish a weekly schedule of upcoming robotics occasions for the approaching months. Ship us your occasions to incorporate them.

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Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!

Drawing inspiration from bumblebee stamina, MIT researchers have developed restore strategies that permit an insect-sized aerial robotic to maintain extreme injury to the actuators, or synthetic muscular tissues, that drive its wings, but nonetheless fly safely. efficient.

[ MIT ]

This robotic claw is named DragonClaw, and do you actually need to know the rest?

“Ouch, DragonClaw wins once more!”

[ AMTL ]

This is argument for having legs on a robotic:

And this is a much less good argument for having legs on a robotic, however nonetheless, superior!

[ ANYbotics ]

It is all the time good to see drones doing actual work! Additionally, if you provide your drone for energy line inspections and promise it will not hit something, that is belief.

[ Skydio ]

Voxel robots have been extensively simulated as a result of they’re simple to simulate, however not exhaustively constructed as a result of they’re troublesome to construct. However listed here are some that actually work.

[ Paper ]

Thanks Bram!

Reinforcement studying (RL) has change into a promising strategy to develop controllers for quadruped robots. We discover a substitute for the position-based RL paradigm by introducing a torque-based RL framework, the place an RL coverage instantly predicts high-frequency joint torques, thus bypassing using a PD controller. The proposed studying torque management framework is validated with intensive experiments, wherein a quadruped is able to traversing numerous terrains and withstanding exterior disturbances whereas following user-specified instructions.

[ Berkeley ]

On this paper, we present how bio-inspired 3D-printed snake skins enhance the frictional anisotropy and thus the gliding locomotion of a snake robotic. Experiments with a tender pneumatic snake robotic have been performed in numerous indoor and out of doors environments.

[ Paper ]

For bipedal humanoid robots to function efficiently in the actual world, they should be proficient in concurrently executing a number of motion duties whereas reacting to unexpected exterior disturbances in actual time. We suggest Kinodynamic Materials as an strategy for the specification, resolution, and simultaneous execution of a number of movement duties in actual time whereas reacting to the dynamism of the surroundings.

[ Michigan Robotics ]

Constructed Robotics’ RPD 35 is the world’s first autonomous piloting system. It combines 4 steps (design, pile format, pile driving and development) in a single package deal. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can drive piles with extra productiveness than conventional strategies.

[ Built Robotics ]

This work contributes a novel and modularized methodology based mostly on studying for aerial robots navigating cluttered environments containing skinny and difficult-to-perceive obstacles with out assuming entry to a map or full estimation of the robotic’s pose.

[ ARL ]

Thanks Costas!

The video reveals a use case that was developed by FZI with help from KIT: multi-robot hazmat restoration utilizing two FZI robots and a KIT VR surroundings.

[ FZI ]

Satisfying.

[ Soft Robtics ]

It has been a 12 months because the launch of ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission was suspended, however work hasn’t stopped for the ExoMars groups in Europe. On this programme, the ESA Net TV crew travels again to Turin, Italy, to talk with the groups and watch additional checks being carried out on Amalia, the rover’s Earth twin, whereas the actual rover stays fastidiously saved in a room extremely clear.

[ ESA ]

Camilo Buscaron, Chief Technologist, AWS Robotics sits down with Ramón Roche on this episode of Behind the Tech to share his storied profession within the robotics trade. Camilo explains how AWS offers a number of providers for robotics builders, from simulation and streaming to fundamental real-time cloud storage.

[ Behind the Tech ]