Video Friday: ChatSpot – IEEE Spectrum

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Get pleasure from at this time’s movies!

The method of getting Spot to speak with a persona may be very cool, however that is additionally one thing that needs to be finished very fastidiously: Spot is a software, and though it could sound prefer it thinks and feels, it completely doesn’t. Simply one thing to remember as extra Spots (and different robots) make it out into the wild.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet.

[ Paper ]

This video presents the exceptional capabilities of the TALOS robotic because it demonstrates agile and sturdy strolling utilizing Mannequin Predictive Management (MPC) references despatched to a Entire-Physique Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde.

[ PAL Robotics ]

Dr. Hooman Samani from the Inventive Robotics Lab on the College of the Arts London writes, “the concept is to point out how robots may be past conventional use and contain extra folks in robotics akin to artists as we do at our college. So we made this video to point out how a co-bot can be utilized as a DJ and other people and robots dance collectively to the robotic DJ in a robotic dance social gathering!”

[ London CCI ]

Future robots ought to carry out a number of and numerous duties, as an alternative of straightforward pick-and-place operations. On this video, Dino Robotics demonstrates the functionalities of their software program resolution: it cooks a steak! Bon Appétit!

[ Dino Robotics ]

This video presents a novel perching and tilting aerial robotic for exact and versatile energy software work on vertical partitions. The system was developed as a part of the AITHON ETH Zürich Bachelor scholar focus venture and offered at IEEE IROS 2023. It combines a compact built-in perching drone design with a concrete drill’s heavy payload and response forces.

[ Paper ]

That is what very excessive precision, very helpful robotics seems like.

[ Dusty ]

I by no means thought I’d write this sentence, however right here is a few video of a failing robotic mudskipper intercourse doll.

[ Nature ]

Good purpose on this drone contemplating that its touchdown pad is rushing alongside at 20 knots.

[ AeroVironment ]

From the folks accountable for the large gundam in Japan comes this very huge and really gradual rideable quadruped factor.

[ Robotstart ]

RoboCup 2024 will likely be in Eindhoven in July!

[ RoboCup ]

A short look into the 2023 IEEE RAS Summer season Faculty on Multi-Robotic Techniques, which befell in July 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.

[ CTU ]

Lava caves on Mars and notably on the moon aren’t solely attention-grabbing for exo-geologists and different house scientists, however in addition they may very well be used as storage rooms and even habitats for future human settlements. The query is how you can entry and discover these large cavities underneath the lunar floor with out risking the lives of astronauts. That is the place robots, or reasonably groups of robots, come into play.

[ DFKI ]

The rise of latest Basis fashions (and purposes e.g. ChatGPT) provide an thrilling glimpse into the capabilities of huge deep networks educated on Web-scale knowledge. On this speak, I’ll briefly focus on a number of the classes we’ve realized whereas scaling actual robotic knowledge assortment, how we’ve been desirous about Basis fashions, and the way we’d bootstrap off of them (and modularity) to make our robots helpful sooner.

[ UPenn ]