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“Sport ist Mord,” as Germans would say. Santa was very formidable to get match for Christmas. Sadly, he had a minor accident whereas climbing on Karlsruhe’s Mount Klotz, so Christmas is likely to be cancelled this 12 months. Will our group of robotic reindeer, medics, and physiotherapists discover a resolution for Santa? We hope all will get their Christmas presents on time! The FZI needs you a Merry Christmas and a Glad New Yr!
[ FZI ]
Thanks, Arne!
This vacation season, Santa’s on a mission! Be part of the festive enjoyable as our beloved Santa groups up along with his trusty robotic sidekick to unfold cheer and put a cease to any researchers who is likely to be as much as no good with harmless robots from the Robotic Methods Lab. Let’s discover out if there are nonetheless some kind-hearted researchers on the market!
[ RSL ]
Why do the baubles disappear from the Christmas tree within the College? And what position do our Naos play on this? Let yourselves be stunned and get into the spirit of a Merry Christmas! Humanoids Bonn needs everybody a lovely Christmastime!
[ Humanoids Bonn ]
Glad Holidays from the PAL Robotics group. The start of 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of our firm, and we’re excited for all of the issues to return.
[ PAL Robotics ]
Thanks, Rugile!
As we bid farewell to this 12 months and welcome the prospects of 2024, United Robtics Group is delighted to share our season’s greetings with you thru this particular video. On this time of festivity and hope, we lengthen our warmest needs for a joyful vacation season and a affluent New Yr to everybody world wide.
Thanks, Nicolas!
Even gadgets from the laboratories {of electrical} engineers, roboticists and pc scientists may be become musical devices. Of their Christmas video, researchers from CTU’s School of Electrical Engineering show this in an unconventional experiment by “tuning” their expertise to the Christmas tune within the English carol We Want You a Merry Christmas.
[ CTU ]
Thanks, Jiri!
Season’s greetings from euRobotics!
[ euRobotics ]
On this video, we offer you an unique behind-the-scenes take a look at how our KUKA Austria group works exhausting to deliver you the final word mulled cider expertise. From conception to implementation, the LBR iisy Cobot, which mixes the precision of a robotic with the eagerness of a human group, supplies assist. A course of that not solely delights the style buds, but in addition redefines the boundaries of robotics.
[ Kuka ]
Santa Claus is on the point of come to city, with a bit of little bit of assist from his associates at Flexiv! He made an inventory, checked it twice, and fingers crossed, you’ve been good!
[ Flexiv ]
Glad Holidays from Yaskawa!
[ Yaskawa ]
We have now created an AI robotic named CyberRunner whose activity is to discover ways to play the favored and extensively accessible labyrinth marble recreation. The labyrinth is a recreation of bodily talent whose objective is to steer a marble from a given begin level to the top level. In doing so, the participant should stop the ball from falling into any of the holes which are current on the labyrinth board. CyberRunner applies latest advances in model-based reinforcement studying to the bodily world and exploits its skill to make knowledgeable selections about doubtlessly profitable behaviors by planning real-world selections and actions into the longer term. The educational on the real-world labyrinth is carried out in 6.06 hours, comprising 1.2 million time steps at a management charge of 55 samples per second. The AI robotic outperforms the beforehand quickest recorded time, achieved by a particularly expert human participant, by over 6 %.
In case you’re questioning (like I used to be), shortcutting throughout the maze to skip elements of the observe is, in reality, dishonest. The system (like most people) did uncover shortcuts and needed to be explicitly directed to not take them.
[ CyberRunner ]
Thanks, Markus!
Grain Weevil, one of many extra attention-grabbing single-purpose robots I’ve ever seen, had a busy 2023.
[ Grain Weevil ]
Working in a greenhouse is each strenuous and time-consuming. The choosing robotic from ETH spin-off Floating Robotics takes on significantly repetitive duties, thereby assuaging the pressure on human pickers. It’s at the moment present process testing at Beerstecher AG in Hinwil.
[ ETHZ ]
The compilation showcases closing venture demos from the grasp course ‘Introduction to Tender Robotics,’ supplied by SDU Tender Robotics throughout Autumn 2023 on the College of Southern Denmark, Odense Campus. This 12 months’s venture theme targeted on gentle locomotion. Every group was tasked with designing a gentle robotic able to navigating a path comprising flat and inclined surfaces, obstacles, and tough terrains.
[ SDU ]
In 2023, we had been honored to have quite a few purchasers place their belief in us, deploying our quadruped robotic in a wide range of settings. We take delight in our dedication to alleviate our purchasers’ challenges, a mission that has been on the coronary heart of DEEPRobotics for the reason that starting. We’ve chosen a number of symbolic circumstances to share with you, and we hope you discover them as fascinating as we do. Take pleasure in!
[ Deep Robotics ]
Try precision format by way of the “eyes” of the Dusty FieldPrinter. Extra than simply strains on the bottom, the FieldPrinter seamlessly syncs the digital mannequin to the jobsite ground with unparalleled accuracy and element.
[ Dusty Robotics ]
Why do knowledge facilities of the longer term have to be state-of-the-art, and why do we have to apply so many applied sciences to them? There are engineers tackling this very query with robotics, autonomous driving, and AI applied sciences. On this video, they clarify the explanation behind creating the robots and autonomous shuttles of the info middle GAK Sejong.
[ Naver Labs ]
Failure is only a obligatory stepping stone in the direction of success. Observe Workforce RoMeLa’s journey with our humanoid robot ARTEMIS! Humanoid Locomotion Competitors, IEEE Humanoids Convention 2023.
[ RoMeLa ]
An enchanting historical past of the KR FAMULUS, the world’s first industrial robotic with an electrical motor, which went into service in Augsburg half a century in the past! Beginning with the imaginative and prescient of making robots that will make work and life simpler for folks, the foundations had been laid for immediately’s robotic revolution. Richard Schwarz, one of many KUKA pioneers, offers a first-hand account of how, pushed by ardour and the German engineering spirit, they developed the KR Famulus, shaping the expertise shift from cumbersome hydraulic robots to revolutionary, clear electrical motor robots.
[ Kuka ]