Taking inspiration from the animal kingdom, Flinders University researchers are developing affordable, flexible and highly responsive 'whiskers' to attach to robots.
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🌱What a fascinating read to start the day. Technology is often inspired by nature and this soft robot is a great example on how. An autonomous growing robot that draws inspiration from the behavioral adaptive strategies of climbing plants to navigate unstructured environments. It's a bit of a long read but worth it. Love it 💡 #softrobotics #robotics #inspiredbynature #innovation #science https://lnkd.in/ehCTEuyR
A growing soft robot with climbing plant–inspired adaptive behaviors for navigation in unstructured environments
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AI and Us: A New Era in Construction Hey everyone, have you heard about Okibo's robots? They're about to change the game in construction! But when I see this ad, my first thought isn't "another job bites the dust" but "isn't this a great opportunity for upskilling the workforce?" This isn't about robots taking over jobs. It's about changing how we work. It's a shift in skills, not a replacement of people. Picture a painter or plasterer with a controller, using their experience to oversee the robot's work. It's about blending the old with the new—experience meets tech. This is an exciting time in construction. We're talking about safer, more efficient sites (3x faster at half the cost if their pitch has anything to go by), and a whole new way of working. #AIinConstruction #FutureOfWork #Upskilling #Robotics #Innovation #ConstructionTech #RobotsAtWork #Innovation
Do you think robots equipped with AI will replace painters on the construction site? Okibo has developed a fully autonomous painting robot for construction sites. The robot is AI driven with no need for manual programming or prior information of the indoor structure required. The company says the robot can work up to 3x faster than traditional methods, and at 50% less cost. #robotics #autonomy #AI
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"Robotic systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decades, evolving from rudimental stiff robots to a wide range of soft, humanoid, animal-inspired robots. Legged robots, particularly quadrupeds, have been found to be particularly promising for tackling simple tasks at ground level, such as exploring environments and carrying objects. Despite their promise, most legged robots are still limited in terms of how they can interact with objects and humans in their surroundings. Moreover, those that exhibit more advanced object manipulation skills are generally equipped with additional and sometimes bulky components, such as dedicated robotic arms or grippers. A team of researchers at ETH Zurich recently introduced a new reinforcement learning–based model that could allow four-legged robots to interact with their surroundings in innovative ways, without requiring additional arms or manipulators. Their paper, published on the preprint server arXiv, shows that this model could allow quadruped robots to tackle more advanced tasks, such as opening a fridge and moving objects out of the way." #robotics #robots
A model that could broaden the manipulation skills of four-legged robots
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Researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Mechanical Engineering are teaming up with Google DeepMind and the University of Washington to create a robot that aims to help you around the house. Dive into the details in this Tech Xplore article https://bit.ly/3WTBx3v #innovation #robotics #robots
Manipulation technology makes home-helper robot possible
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"Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won't crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china. As part of its motion planning process, a robot typically runs "safety check" algorithms that verify its trajectory is collision-free. However, sometimes these algorithms generate false positives, claiming a trajectory is safe when the robot would actually collide with something. Other methods that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT researchers have developed a safety check technique that can prove with 100% accuracy that a robot's trajectory will remain collision-free (assuming the model of the robot and environment is itself accurate). Their method, which is so precise it can discriminate between trajectories that differ by only millimeters, provides proof in only a few seconds." #robotics #robots #collisionavoidance
Researchers develop rapid safety check method that ensures a robot will avoid collisions
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IN THE NEWS | A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can be easily verified by a human. Read more: #RobotSafety #CollisionPrevention #SafetyCheck #Robotics #MotionPlanning #CollisionDetection #SafetyVerification #TechnologyNews #Innovation #RoboticsResearch #Automation #SafetyFirst #RobotSafetyProof #AdvancedTechnology
Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
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Autonomous Mobile Manipulation Robot for Fruit Picking This video shows my Master's Thesis project in action, with the mobile robot and the #robotic arm manipulator working together to perform a pick-and-place task. The entire mobile manipulation system is completely #autonomous and is meant to demonstrate the capabilities of a robotic system in agricultural environments. This project was developed at Politecnico di Milano, in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLab POLIMI). The objective of this demo is to showcase the capabilities of the mobile manipulation system and the integration of the robotic arm manipulator with the mobile #robot platform. In this demo the AgileX Robotics Scout mobile robot navigates autonomously in the environment, avoiding obstacles and reaching the goal position. Once the robot reaches the plant, the robotic igus® Low Cost Automation Rebel arm manipulator searches for apples to pick up and place in the basket. Once the robot has found an apple, the robotic arm manipulator picks up the apple with its soft gripper, an end-effector designed for picking up delicate objects, such as fruits. The robot then navigates autonomously to the basket and places the apple inside the basket. The #robot is equipped with a LiDAR sensor for environment #perception, an RGB-D stereo camera sensor for object detection and recognition, and a soft gripper actuator for picking up objects. The entire system is powered by onboard batteries and is controlled by a #ROS2 software stack running on the robot's computer. Controlling and coordinating such a complex system requires the integration of multiple software packages, libraries and algorithms, on which I have worked during my Master's Thesis project. The video is sped up by 2x to show the entire process in a shorter time frame.
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📌 Robots in smaller & safer spaces. 🔍 Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers develop a technique for fast, 100% collision-free and safe movements. 💡 The method is based on algorithms and the hyperplane function. ⚙ With this work, the robot is more intelligent and adaptable for new applications that interact with humans, animals or objects. ✔ It does not matter if this universe surrounding the robot is static or dynamic. #KUKA #MIT #robotics
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Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots MIT engineers develop a long, curved touch sensor that could enable a robot to grasp and manipulate objects in multiple ways. Imagine grasping a heavy object, like a pipe wrench, with one hand. You would likely grab the wrench using your entire fingers, not just your fingertips. Sensory receptors in your skin, which run along the entire length of each finger, would send information to your brain about the tool you are grasping. In a robotic hand, tactile sensors that use cameras to obtain information about grasped objects are small and flat, so they are often located in the fingertips. These robots, in turn, use only their fingertips to grasp objects, typically with a pinching motion. This limits the manipulation tasks they can perform. MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that is long, curved, and shaped like a human finger. Their device provides high-resolution tactile sensing over a large area. The sensor, called the GelSight Svelte, uses two mirrors to reflect and refract light so that one camera, located in the base of the sensor, can see along the entire finger’s length. https://lnkd.in/dCt3JazJ By Adam Zewe
Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
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IN THE NEWS | A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can be easily verified by a human. Read more: #RobotSafety #CollisionPrevention #SafetyCheck #Robotics #MotionPlanning #CollisionDetection #SafetyVerification #TechnologyNews #Innovation #RoboticsResearch #Automation #SafetyFirst #RobotSafetyProof #AdvancedTechnology
Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
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