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[ Google DeepMind ]
THE ROADMAP! NOOOOO!
[ Agility ]
Videos like this always make me wonder how repairable these robots are. Very, I would hope.
[ Unitree ]
Humans routinely communicate through abstractions of their bodies, including shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. Here, we present a robotic system capable of dynamic shadow expression using a 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand with compliant soft skin and a learned shadow self-model.Human to quadruped motion transfer is an odd concept but I’m here for it.
[ Disney Research ]
Meet Stretch 4.0—The one-armed, three-wheeled robot that can navigate your home safely. Would you rather a humanoid robot or Stretch?[ Hello Robot ]
And now, this, for some reason.
[ PNDbotics ]
I’m not sure we’re allowed to be impressed if you resize a badminton court to accommodate your robot.
[ PHYBOT ]
Golden eagles care not for drones.
[ Team BlackSheep ]
USC researchers work with NASA and others to train robot dogs for planetary exploration on Mars, the moon and beyond![ Research in Applied Decisions: RAD Lab ]
Thanks, Cristina!
WABOT-1 was arguably the birth of the humanoid robot in Japan. We’ve come a long way, and it’s good to be reminded where we started.
[ Takanishi Lab ]
If only this video was at 1x instead of 5x we could have had 15 hours of Memo folding laundry.
[ Sunday Robotics ]
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