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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos We have a relatively brief Video Friday for you this week, because we’ve spent all week at ICRA in Montreal. Next week, look for lots of ICRA content, along with a special ICRA edition Video Friday. URC 2019 – May 30-1, 2019 – Hanksville, Utah Dynamic Walking 2019 – June 3-6,
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To bring more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicle navigation, MIT researchers have created a system that enables driverless cars to check a simple map and use visual data to follow routes in new, complex environments.Image: Chelsea Turner By Rob Matheson With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT researchers have created a
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The HyQReal quadruped robot is big, powerful, rugged, and capable of walking off with your Piaggio Avanti The Dynamic Legged Systems Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been working with hydraulic quadrupedal robots since about 2010— we first met their HyQ research platform at IROS 2011, and they’ve been using it for
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A 49-core chip by Georgia Tech uses a 1980s-era algorithm to solve some of today’s toughest optimization problems faster than a GPU Engineers at Georgia Tech say they’ve come up with a programmable prototype chip that efficiently solves a huge class of optimization problems, including those needed for neural network training, 5G network routing, and
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Agility Robotics’ Digit will bring packages from a delivery vehicle to your front door Ford is adding legs to its robocars—sort of. The automaker is announcing today that its fleet of autonomous delivery vans will carry more than just packages: Riding along with the boxes in the back there will be a two-legged robot. Digit,
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Salto gets an upgrade and now it can go for a bounce outside the lab UC Berkeley’s Salto has been one of our favorite robots since 2016, which makes it old-ish in robot years. While it’s kept the same “hyper-aggressive pogo-stick” concept, a series of upgrades has endowed Salto with with the ability to do
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The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is being held this week in Montreal, Canada. It’s one of the top venues for roboticists and attracts over 4000 conference goers. Andra, Audrow, Lauren, and Lilly are on the ground so expect lots of great podcasts, videos with best-paper nominees, and coverage in the weeks
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Learning in simulation no longer takes human expertise to make it useful in the real world We all know how annoying real robots are. They’re expensive, they’re finicky, and teaching them to do anything useful takes an enormous amount of time and effort. One way of making robot learning slightly more bearable is to program
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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): Nîmes Robotics Festival – May 17-19, 2019 – Nîmes,
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NASA’s robots will help each other with useful tasks on the International Space Station NASA has two robots that will, hopefully, be operating on the International Space Station (ISS) this year. There’s Robonaut, a humanoid (complete with legs) that will be on its way up there later this year, as well as Astrobee, a family of
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