DEEP Robotics Quadruped, Agility Digit, and More

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Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!

Are wheeled quadrupeds going to expire of loopy new methods to maneuver anytime quickly? Appears like possibly not.

[ Deep Robotics ]

A large eye and tiny ft make this pipe inspection robotic exceptionally cute, I feel.

[ tmsuk ] through [ Robotstart ]

Agility appears to be one of many few humanoid firms speaking critically about security.

[ Agility Robotics ]

A brain-computer interface, surgically positioned in a analysis participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all 4 limbs, supplied an unprecedented stage of management over a digital quadcopter—simply by interested by transferring their unresponsive fingers. On this video, you’ll see simply how the participant of the research managed the digital quadcopter utilizing their mind’s thought indicators to maneuver a digital hand controller.

[ University of Michigan ]

Hair styling is an important facet of private grooming, considerably influenced by the looks of entrance hair. Whereas brushing is often used each to detangle hair and for styling functions, present analysis primarily focuses on robotic methods for detangling hair, with restricted exploration into robotic hair styling. This analysis presents a novel robotic system designed to mechanically regulate entrance hairstyles, with an emphasis on path planning for root-centric strand adjustment.

[ Paper ]

Thanks, Kento!

If I’m understanding this accurately, if you happen to’re cautious, it’s potential to introduce chaos right into a blind juggling robot to change synced juggling to alternate juggling.

[ ETH Zurich ]

Drones with beaks? Positive, why not.

[ GRVC ]

Try this superb demo preview video we shot in our workplaces right here at OLogic previous to CES 2025. OLogic constructed this demo robotic for MediaTek to indicate off all types of cool issues operating on a MediaTek Genio 700 processor. The robotic is a Create3 base with a customized tower (just like a TurtleBot) utilizing a Pumpkin Genio 700 EVK, plus a LIDAR and a Orbbec Gemini 335 digicam on it. The robotic is operating ROS2 NAV and finds coloured balls on the ground utilizing an NVIDIA TAO mannequin operating on the Genio 700 and provides them to the map so the robotic can discover them. You may direct the robotic by RVIZ to go decide up a ball and transfer it to wherever you need on the map.

[ OLogic ]

We discover the potential of multimodal large language models (LLMs) for enabling autonomous trash pickup robots to determine objects characterised as trash in advanced, context-dependent eventualities. By establishing analysis datasets with human settlement annotations, we reveal that LLMs excel in visually clear instances with excessive human consensus, whereas efficiency is decrease in ambiguous instances, reflecting human uncertainty. To validate real-world applicability, we combine GPT-4o with an open vocabulary object detector and deploy it on a quadruped with a manipulator arm with ROS 2, displaying that it’s potential to make use of this info for autonomous trash pickup in sensible settings.

[ University of Texas at Austin ]