Video Friday: Morphing Adaptive Robots

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Pulling inspiration from the pure world, we’ve developed a trio of robots that may morph their our bodies and legs as wanted to raised crawl, shimmy, or swim over troublesome terrain. These new robotic techniques are designed to imitate the best way organic organisms adapt their form relying on their life cycle or surroundings and have been developed by a group from the Division of Mechanical Engineering. The work is described in a brand new paper printed in Nature Communications, which outlines the three robotic varieties and their completely different talents, together with gripping, climbing, and amphibious journey.

[ Nature ] by way of [ Adaptive Robotics Lab ]

Thanks, Jianguo!

LimX Dynamics has launched its first wheeled quadruped robotic: W1. W1 is provided with notion and motion-control algorithms, and a number of proprietary high-performing actuators. It combines the benefits of legged and wheeled constructions multi function, enabling it with highly effective real-time terrain notion and all-terrain mobility.

Pre-orders ought to open earlier than the top of this yr.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Robots constructed by engineers on the College of California, San Diego helped obtain a serious breakthrough in understanding how insect flight developed, described within the 4 October 2023 subject of the journal Nature.

[ UCSD ]

Dino Robotics’ cobot demonstrates machine tending, that includes 3D surroundings scanning, bin selecting of offered elements with out mechanical fixtures, and force-controlled part-feeding.

[ Dino Robotics ]

That is intelligent: a chameleon-inspired suction gripper that grabs and retracts with none lively sensing in any respect.

[ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ] by way of [ SNU ]

It is best to in all probability not do that together with your lidar.

By some means, I really feel like I’m getting referred to as out right here…

[ Norlab ]

Think about canine effortlessly managing a big selection of things, their versatile mouths permitting them to know and maintain simply. Impressed by their pure talents, we crafted a robotic gripper. Enhancing our passive-jamming lip and incorporating the ingenious construction of a canine’s enamel, our gripper now possesses the dexterity and precision to deal with objects in day by day life.

[ KIMLAB ]

The potential of Martian lava tubes for useful resource extraction and habitat sheltering highlights the necessity for robots able to enterprise the grueling job of their exploration. Pushed by this motivation, on this work we introduce a legged robotic system optimized for leaping within the low gravity of Mars, designed with leg configurations adaptable to each bipedal and quadrupedal techniques.

[ ARL ]

How self-healing is self-healing? Let’s discover out!

[ BruBotics ]

Looks like GITAI is planning to check a few of its robots outdoors of the Worldwide House Station.

[ GITAI ]