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ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, N.C.
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Might 2025, ATLANTA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON
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ETH Robotics Summer School: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
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IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
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Get pleasure from in the present day’s movies!
At present I realized that “hippotherapy” just isn’t fairly what I wished it to be.
The mixing of KUKA robots into robotic physiotherapy tools provides quite a few benefits, reminiscent of exact motion planning and management of robot-assisted therapy, individualized coaching, diminished therapist workload and patient-progress monitoring. In consequence, these robotic therapies may be superior to many typical bodily therapies in restabilizing sufferers’ limbs.
[ Kuka ]
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping-pong recreation with a robust, light-weight design that returns pictures with high-speed precision. The brand new table-tennis bot contains a multijointed robotic arm that’s mounted to 1 finish of a ping-pong desk and wields a regular ping-pong paddle. Aided by a number of high-speed cameras and a high-bandwidth predictive management system, the robotic shortly estimates the pace and trajectory of an incoming ball and executes one in every of a number of swing varieties—loop, drive, or chop—to exactly hit the ball to a desired location on the desk with numerous kinds of spin.
[ MIT News ]
Pan flipping includes dynamically flipping numerous objects, reminiscent of eggs, burger buns, and meat patties. This demonstrates precision, agility, and the power to adapt to totally different challenges in motion control. Our framework allows robots to be taught extremely dynamic actions.
[ GitHub ] through [ Human Centered Autonomy Lab ]
Thanks, Haonan!
An edible robotic made by EPFL scientists leverages a mix of biodegradable gas and floor stress to zip across the water’s floor, making a protected—and nutritious—different to environmental monitoring units created from synthetic polymers and electronics.
[ EPFL ]
Conventional quadcopters excel in flight agility and maneuverability however typically face limitations in hovering effectivity and horizontal area of view. Nature-inspired rotary wings, whereas providing a broader perspective and enhanced hovering effectivity, are hampered by substantial angular momentum restrictions. On this examine, we introduce QuadRotary, a novel automobile that integrates the strengths of each flight traits by way of a reconfigurable design.
[ Paper ] through [ Singapore University of Technology and Design ]
I like the concept of a humanoid that makes use of jumping as a primary locomotion mode not as a result of it has to, however as a result of it’s enjoyable.
[ PAL Robotics ]
I had not realized how a lot nuance there’s to digging stuff up with a shovel.
[ Intelligent Motion Laboratory ]
A brand new 10,000-gallon [38,000-liter] water tank on the College of Michigan will assist researchers design, construct, and take a look at a wide range of autonomous underwater programs that would assist robots map lakes and oceans and conduct inspections of ships and bridges. The tank, funded by the Office of Naval Research, permits roboticists to additional take a look at tasks on robot control and conduct, marine sensing and notion, and multivehicle coordination.
“The lore is that this helps to jump-start analysis, as every testing tank is a dwelling reservoir for the entire data gained from inside it,” mentioned Jason Bundoff, lead engineer in analysis at U-M’s Friedman Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory. “You combine the waters from different tanks to imbue the newly based tank with all of that dwelling data from the opposite tanks, which helps to maintain the data from being misplaced.”
If in case you have a humanoid robotic and also you’re questioning the way it ought to talk, right here’s the reply.
[ Pollen ]
Whose facet are you on, Dusty?
Even construction robots must be conscious about siding with the Empire, although there may be penalties!
– YouTube
[ Dusty Robotics ]
This Michigan Robotics Seminar is by Danfei Xu from Georgia Tech, on “Generative Process and Movement Planning.”
Lengthy-horizon planning is prime to our capability to resolve complicated bodily issues, from utilizing instruments to cooking dinners. Regardless of current progress in commonsense-rich foundation models, the power to do the identical continues to be missing in robots, significantly with learning-based approaches. On this discuss, I’ll current a physique of labor that goals to rework Process and Movement Planning—one of the highly effective computational frameworks in robotic planning—into a completely generative mannequin framework, enabling compositional generalization in a largely data-driven strategy.
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