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ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Might 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Power Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
ETH Robotics Summer time College: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
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ICRES 2025: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS
CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN
CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL
IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL
World Robotic Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN
IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Take pleasure in immediately’s movies!
All through the course of the previous 12 months, LEVA has been designed from the bottom up as a novel robotic to move payloads. Though the usage of robotics is widespread in logistics, few options supply the potential to effectively transport payloads each in managed and unstructured environments. 4-legged robots are perfect for navigating any setting a human can, but few have the options to autonomously transfer payloads. That is the place LEVA shines. By combining each wheels (a way of locomotion ideally suited to quick and exact movement on flat surfaces) and legs (that are excellent for traversing any terrain that people can), LEVA strikes a stability that makes it extremely versatile.
[ LEVA ]
You in all probability heard about this humanoid robotic half-marathon in China, becuase it received plenty of media consideration, which I presume was the purpose. And for these of us who keep in mind when Asimo operating was a giant deal, marathon operating remains to be spectacular in some sense, it’s simply exhausting to attach that to those robots doing something sensible, you already know?
[ NBC ]
A robotic navigating an out of doors setting with no prior data of the house should depend on its native sensing to understand its environment and plan. This will come within the type of an area metric map or native coverage with some fastened horizon. Past that, there’s a fog of unknown house marked with some fastened value. On this work, we make a key remark that long-range navigation solely necessitates figuring out good frontier instructions for planning as an alternative of full map data. To this finish, we suggest the Lengthy Vary Navigator (LRN), that learns an intermediate affordance illustration mapping high-dimensional digital camera photographs to inexpensive frontiers for planning, after which optimizing for max alignment with the specified purpose. By means of intensive off-road experiments on Spot and a Large Automobile, we discover that augmenting current navigation stacks with LRN reduces human interventions at test-time and results in sooner choice making indicating the relevance of LRN.
[ LRN ]
Goby is a compact, succesful, programmable, and low-cost robotic that permits you to uncover miniature worlds from its tiny perspective.
On Kickstarter now, for an absurdly low cost $80.
[ Kickstarter ]
Thanks, Wealthy!
HEBI robots demonstrated inchworm mobility in the course of the Innovation Faire of the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston.
[ HEBI ]
Thanks, Andrew!
Comfortable Easter from Flexiv!
[ Flexiv ]
We’re excited to current our proprietary reinforcement studying algorithm, refined by intensive simulations and huge coaching knowledge, enabling our full-scale humanoid robotic, Adam, to grasp human-like locomotion. Not like model-based gait management, our RL-driven method grants Adam distinctive adaptability. On difficult terrains like uneven surfaces, Adam seamlessly adjusts stride, tempo, and stability in actual time, making certain steady, pure motion whereas boosting effectivity and security. The algorithm additionally delivers fluid, sleek movement with easy joint coordination, minimizing mechanical put on, extending operational life, and considerably lowering vitality use for enhanced endurance.
[ PNDbotics ]
Contained in the GRASP Lab – Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab. Our analysis facilities on management, studying, planning, and evaluation of robots as they work together with the world. Whether or not a robotic is helping inside the dwelling, or working in a producing plant, the elemental promise of robotics requires touching and affecting a posh setting in a secure and managed style. We’re targeted on growing computationally tractable and knowledge environment friendly algorithms which allow robots to function each dynamically and safely as they rapidly maneuver by and work together with their environments.
[ DAIR Lab ]
I’ll by no means perceive why robotics firms really feel the necessity to add the sounds of sick actuators when their robots transfer.
[ Kepler ]
Be a part of Matt Trossen, founding father of Trossen Robotics, on a time-traveling teardown by the evolution of our robotic arms! On this deep dive, Matt unboxes the ghosts of robots previous—sharing behind-the-scenes tales, daring design choices, classes discovered, and the way the business itself has shifted gears.
[ Trossen ]
This week’s CMU RI seminar is a retro version (2008!) from Charlie Kemp, beforehand of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech and now at Howdy Robotic.
[ CMU RI ]
This week’s precise CMU RI seminar is from a way more trendy model of Charlie Kemp.
After I began in robotics, my purpose was to assist robots emulate people. But as my lab labored with individuals with mobility impairments, my notions of success modified. For assistive functions, emulation of people is much less essential than ease of use and usefulness. Serving to with seemingly easy duties, corresponding to scratching an itch or choosing up a dropped object, could make a significant distinction in an individual’s life. Even full autonomy could be undesirable, since actively directing a robotic can present a way of independence and company. General, many advantages of robotic help derive from nonhuman elements of robots, corresponding to being tireless, immediately controllable, and freed from social traits that may inhibit use.
Whereas technical challenges abound for dwelling robots that try to emulate people, I’ll present proof that human-scale cellular manipulators may benefit individuals with mobility impairments at dwelling within the close to future. I’ll describe work from my lab and Howdy Robotic that illustrates alternatives for valued help at dwelling, together with supporting actions of every day dwelling, main train video games, and strengthening social connections. I may even current current progress by Howdy Robotic towards unsupervised, every day in-home use by an individual with extreme mobility impairments.
[ CMU RI ]
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