Robot Videos: Clearpath Robotics, Unitree, and More

Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Take pleasure in at the moment’s movies!

Probably the most venerable (and recognizable) cell robots ever made, the Husky, has simply gotten a serious improve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjT-p7MInVQ

Transport early subsequent yr.

[ Clearpath Robotics ]

MAB Robotics is growing legged robots for the inspection and upkeep of business infrastructure. One of many preliminary areas for deploying this know-how is underground infrastructure, akin to water and sewer canals. In these environments, resistance to components like excessive humidity and dealing underwater is crucial. To deal with these challenges, the MAB staff has constructed a strolling robotic able to working totally submerged, primarily based on distinctive self-developed robotics actuators. This innovation overcomes the constraints of present applied sciences, providing MAB’s first purchasers a novel service for trenchless inspection and upkeep duties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p66uxwUgboY

[ MAB Robotics ]

Thanks, Jakub!

The G1 robotic can carry out a standing lengthy bounce of as much as 1.4 meters, probably the longest bounce ever achieved by a humanoid robot of its dimension on the earth, standing just one.32 meters tall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JE7mNYz2A

[ Unitree Robotics ]

Apparently, you may print out a useful four-fingered hand on an inkjet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQUTDwdECE

[ UC Berkeley ]

We current SDS (“See it. Do it. Sorted.’’), a novel pipeline for intuitive quadrupedal ability studying from a single demonstration video leveraging the Visible capabilities of GPT-4o. We validate our technique on the Unitree Go1 robotic, demonstrating its skill to execute variable abilities akin to trotting, bounding, pacing and hopping, reaching excessive imitation constancy and locomotion stability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=462oYHbuLCg

[ Robot Perception Lab, University College London ]

You had me at “3D desk octopus.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnTmdU3NJw

[ UIST 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ]

Prime notch swag from Dusty Robotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AVo4pIwa0

[ Dusty Robotics ]

I’m unsure how severe this footwear versus no-shoes check is, however it’s an fascinating end result nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw2y0kceAv0

[ Robot Era ]

Thanks, Ni Tao!

Introducing TRON 1, the primary multi-modal biped robotic! With its progressive “Three-In-One” modular design, TRON 1 can simply swap amongst Level-Foot, Sole, and Wheeled foot ends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lypkwll6tM

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Current works within the robotic studying neighborhood have efficiently launched generalist fashions able to controlling varied robotic embodiments throughout a variety of duties, akin to navigation and locomotion. Nevertheless, reaching agile management, which pushes the bounds of robotic efficiency, nonetheless depends on specialist fashions that require intensive parameter tuning. To leverage generalist-model adaptability and suppleness whereas reaching specialist-level agility, we suggest AnyCar, a transformer-based generalist dynamics mannequin designed for agile management of assorted wheeled robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiSYeNb0Y70

[ AnyCar ]

Uncover the way forward for aerial manipulation with our untethered mushy robotic platform with on-board notion stack! Introduced on the 2024 Convention on Robotic Studying in Munich, this platform introduces autonomous aerial manipulation that works in each indoor and outside environments—with out counting on expensive off-board monitoring techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUQI-Lzwb-4

[ Paper ] through [ ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Laboratory ]

Deploying notion modules for human-robot handovers is difficult as a result of they require a excessive diploma of reactivity, generalizability, and robustness to work reliably for numerous instances. Right here, we present {hardware} handover experiments utilizing our environment friendly and object-agnostic real-time monitoring framework, particularly designed for human-to-robot handover duties with legged manipulators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RANxVhYPXi8

[ Paper ] through [ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]

Azi and Ameca killing time however Azi struggles being the brand new child round. Engineered Arts desktop robots characteristic 32 actuators, 27 for facial management alone, and 5 for the neck. They embrace AI conversational skill together with GPT-4o help which makes them nice robotic companions, even to every others. The robots are following a script for this video, utilizing certainly one of their many voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8ivRLqqIs

[ Engineered Arts ]

Plato automates carrying and transporting, giving your workers extra time to concentrate on what actually issues, enhancing their high quality of life. With a simple setup that requires no markers or extra {hardware}, Plato is extremely intuitive to make use of—no programming abilities wanted.

[ Aldebaran ]

This UPenn GRASP Lab seminar is from Antonio Loquercio, on “Simulation: What made us clever will make our robots clever.”

Simulation-to-reality switch is an rising strategy that allows robots to develop abilities in simulated environments earlier than making use of them in the true world. This technique has catalyzed quite a few developments in robotic studying, from locomotion to agile flight. On this speak, I’ll discover simulation-to-reality switch by way of the lens of evolutionary biology, drawing intriguing parallels with the perform of the mammalian neocortex. By reframing this method within the context of organic evolution, we are able to uncover novel analysis questions and discover how simulation-to-reality switch can evolve from an empirically pushed course of to a scientific self-discipline.

[ University of Pennsylvania ]