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Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCE
Get pleasure from at present’s movies!
Swiss-Mile’s robotic (which is admittedly any robotic that meets the {hardware} requirement to run their software program) is quicker than “most people.” So what does that imply, precisely?
The winner right here is Riccardo Rancan, who doesn’t appear like he was making an attempt particularly onerous—he’s the world champion in high-speed city orienteering, which is a sport that I didn’t know existed however sounds fairly superior.
[ Swiss-Mile ]
Thanks, Marko!
Oh good, we’re constructing large fruit fly robots now.
However critically, that is helpful and essential analysis as a result of understanding the connection between a nervous system and a bunch of legs can solely be useful as we ask increasingly more of legged robotic platforms.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Clarus!
Watching humanoids stand up off the bottom won’t ever not be fascinating.
[ Fourier ]
The Kepler Forerunner K2 represents the Gen 5.0 robotic mannequin, showcasing a seamless integration of the humanoid robotic’s cerebral, cerebellar, and high-load physique capabilities.
[ Kepler ]
Diffusion Forcing combines the energy of full-sequence diffusion fashions (like SORA) and next-token fashions (like LLMs), appearing as both or a combination at sampling time for various purposes with out retraining.
[ MIT ]
Testing robotic arms for house is not any joke.
[ GITAI ]
Welcome to the Modular Robotics Lab (ModLab), a subgroup of the GRASP Lab and the Mechanical Engineering and Utilized Mechanics Division on the College of Pennsylvania underneath the supervision of Prof. Mark Yim.
[ ModLab ]
That is way more amusing than it has any proper to be.
Let’s go for a stroll with Adam at IROS’24!
[ PNDbotics ]
From Reachy 1 in 2023 to our newly launched Reachy 2, our grippers have been designed to reinforce precision and dexterity in object manipulation. Among the fashions featured within the video are prototypes used for numerous exams, displaying the innovation behind the scenes.
[ Pollen ]
I’m undecided how else you’d effectively spray the tops of timber? Drones look like a no brainer right here.
[ SUIND ]
Introduced at ICRA40 in Rotterdam, we present the challenges confronted by cellular manipulation platforms within the discipline. We at CSIRO Robotics are working steadily in direction of a collaborative strategy to deal with such difficult technical issues.
[ CSIRO ]
ABB is greatest identified for arms, but it surely seems to be like they’re exploring AMRs for warehouse operations now.
[ ABB ]
Howie Choset, Lu Li, and Victoria Webster-Wooden of the Manufacturing Futures Institute clarify their work to create specialised sensors that permit robots to “really feel” the world round them.
[ CMU ]
Columbia Engineering Lecture Collection in AI: “How May Machines Attain Human-Degree Intelligence?” by Yann LeCun.
Animals and people perceive the bodily world, have frequent sense, possess a persistent reminiscence, can purpose, and may plan advanced sequences of subgoals and actions. These important traits of clever conduct are nonetheless past the capabilities of at present’s strongest AI architectures, corresponding to Auto-Regressive LLMs.
I’ll current a cognitive structure which will represent a path in direction of human-level AI. The centerpiece of the structure is a predictive world mannequin that enables the system to foretell the implications of its actions. and to plan sequences of actions that that fulfill a set of goals. The goals might embody guardrails that assure the system’s controllability and security. The world mannequin employs a Joint Embedding Predictive Structure (JEPA) educated with self-supervised studying, largely by remark.
[ Columbia ]
