Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos<\/b>
\nVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We\u2019ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here\u2019s what we have so far ( send us your events!):
Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today\u2019s videos.
Maurice Fallon and Ioannis Havoutis from the Dynamic Robot Systems Group at the University of Oxford have a shiny new ANYmal that they\u2019ve been putting to work doing useful stuff:
I know Boston Dynamics gets all the attention, but in terms of practical quadrupeds, ANYmal is getting a lot of solid work done.
[ DRS]
Thanks Maurice!
Google\u2019s Cloud Robotics Platform: coming in 2019.
[ Google]
Most quadrupeds seem very dog-like, but on Indiegogo right now is an open source DIY robotic kitten:
IT\u2019S NAME IS NYBBLE! And it\u2019s only a US $200 pledge on Indiegogo. Might want to teach it not to impale itself through the neck with traffic cones, though.
[ Indiegogo] via [ Hackster]
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots has another video out about the dangers of autonomous weapons. It\u2019s more of what you\u2019d expect from them: heavy on trying to make you feel afraid, light on actual information.
[ CSKR]
Here is a probably way too long demo of Kaleido at the World Robot Summit, a robot from Kawasaki that\u2019s designed to survive falling:
We wrote about this when it was presented at IROS last year, so it\u2019s good to see that they\u2019ve kept working on it.
[ Kawasaki]
We haven\u2019t heard from Zenta in a while, but these videos show that he\u2019s still got the most lifelike gait code for his multi-legged robots.
[ Zenta]
The first edition of the Mobile Manipulation Hackathon was celebrated at IROS 2018. Here\u2019s a summary of the demonstrations that the six participant teams could achieve with a TIAGo robot in 24h.
[ PAL Robotics]
The ringing of the closing bell on October 17 at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was highly unusual as the prestigious task was performed not by a human, but by a robot arm. The bell ringer, Universal Robots\u2019 UR5e with a two-fingered gripper from Robotiq, is a collaborative robot \u2013 or cobot \u2013 able to work alongside people with no safety guarding, giving watchers worldwide the opportunity to see just how easily cobots interact with humans.
All it had to do was push a button? It\u2019s capable of so much more!
[ Universal Robots]
A team of engineers at MIT have developed a novel method to mass-produce tiny robots, no bigger than a cell, quickly, easily and accurately with little to no external stimulus.
The key to making such tiny devices in large quantities lies in a method the team developed for controlling the natural fracturing process of atomically-thin, brittle materials, directing the fracture lines so that they produce miniscule pockets of a predictable size and shape. Embedded inside these pockets are electronic circuits and materials that can collect, record, and output data.
The novel process, called \u201cautoperforation,\u201d is described in a paper published today in the journal Nature Materials, by MIT Professor Michael Strano, postdoc Pingwei Liu, graduate student Albert Liu, and eight others at MIT.
[ MIT]
MELTANT-\u03b1 is performing a demo to repair a rover on the moon in the JAXA\u2019s simulated-moon facility in Avatar X program.
[ Meltin]
I\u2019m not entirely sure what\u2019s going on here, but it has fake Superman, faker explosions, and Roboy speaking with a Scottish (I think?) accent.
[ Roboy]
Omron\u2019s table tennis robot is always fun to watch, although I never noticed that it seems to try to put the ball in the same place every time:
They\u2019ve had this version for a year now, so it needs some new tricks. Like, spin shots. Or maybe lasers.
[ Omron]
Robotic Materials makes kits so that you don\u2019t have to.
They categorized this YouTube video under \u00ab\u00a0comedy,\u00a0\u00bb for obvious reasons.
[ Robotic Materials]
Tim Gatautis suffered a spinal cord injury in a swimming accident nearly a decade ago, and he\u2019s had to use a wheelchair ever since. He\u2019d like to be able to do more for himself and that\u2019s what brings him here to the Wyss Institute and the Biodesign Lab in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Gatautis is testing out new wearable robotic devices designed for hand and arm rehabilitation, and the experience is making him feel much more hopeful about living more independently.
[ Harvard]
AEROARMS is an aerial robotics project with a budget of 5,7 million euros. In September 2018 some members from the European Commission came to Seville to see and test the results of the experiments inside this project. This is a summary of the amazing experience of work that we lived in these moments.
[ Aeroarms] via [ GRVC]
The UIST 2018 closing keynote from Selma \u0160abanovi\u0107 at Indiana University on \u201cRobots for us – Social Perspectives on the Collaborative Design of Ubiquitous Robots.\u201d
Robots are expected to become ubiquitous in the near future, working with people in various environments, including homes, schools, hospitals, and offices. Healthcare applications, particularly those relating to the support and care of older adults, are a main focus of development for ubiquitous robotic technologies. As physically and socially interactive technologies, robots present new opportunities for embodied interaction and active as well as passive sensing in these contexts. They have also been shown to psychologically impact individuals, affect group and organizational dynamics, and modify our concepts and experiences of work, care, and social relationships.
[ UIST 2018]<\/p>\n

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