Lovely Microduck Robotic Curler Skates and Performs Soccer

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Nvidia simply paid US $12.9 billion for the corporate that acquired Pollen Robotics, and this should be why.

Meet Microduck. 🦆 The 25-centimeter, 780-gram robotic that waddles, falls, will get again up, and learns new methods.

Packed inside: 15 levels of freedom, a entrance digital camera, an 8×8 lidar, two IMUs, mics, a speaker, NFC, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.

Out of the field, Microduck already walks, sits, crouches, curler skates, picks up objects with its articulated beak, and recovers from falls by itself. Drive it with a recreation controller, plug-in equipment, and NFC tagged objects, run autonomous behaviors, or collect a number of Microducks for races and soccer.

Software program absolutely open supply. Prepared for no matter you throw at it.

On pre-order for an astonishingly low $399, and ships earlier than Christmas.

[ Microduck ]

Thanks, Matthieu!

If you happen to’ve chosen to disregard all the sooner DARPA Carry Problem movies that we’ve posted, now you may get all caught up in about 5 minutes.

[ DARPA ]

You had me at “54-gram robotic that out-jumps a kangaroo.”

[ IEEE Transactions on Robotics ]

Typically, you simply want a video like this.

Most fish-inspired robots are constructed for one dimension and one job, so scaling them up or down normally means ranging from scratch. A group of engineers says it has discovered a technique to remedy that downside. They’ve unveiled ScaFi, a robotic modeled on fish like cod and mackerel.

[ New York University ]

Thanks, Leah!

Martin writes, “We’re a small robotics group in Czechia, Europe, constructing sensible {hardware} across the Unitree G1. Right here’s a brief demo of our light-weight gripper choosing up a strawberry; the gripper weighs below 200 grams and is designed for easy, delicate manipulation with out including a fancy multifinger hand.

[ Sentio Robotix ]

Thanks, Martin!

Hybrid visible markers which are helpful for each cameras and lidar is a neat concept.

[ Hello Robot ]

Thanks, Binit!

EmoLo brings emotion-inspired expressive locomotion to Open Duck Mini V2, a low-cost, open-source bipedal robotic impressed by Disney’s BDX droids. With a single reinforcement studying coverage, the robotic can generate distinct strolling kinds related to completely different emotional expressions, displaying how characterful and expressive whole-body movement might be achieved on an accessible robotic platform.

[ EmoLo ]

Thanks, Masato!

If it’s potential for a robotic with a very motionless face to look annoyed, this robotic completely does, beginning at three minutes into this video.

[ DLR RM ]

Noble Machines deployed its first general-purpose robots to a Fortune World 500 industrial buyer inside 18 months of the corporate’s launch and met its first supply milestone, made potential by its AI-driven whole-body management and industry-leading end-to-end autonomy.

[ Noble Machines ]

We’ve lowered the time it takes to go from bodily immediate → robotic habits. The quicker anybody can educate a robotic to do one thing new, the simpler it turns into to scale bodily work.

[ Generalist ]

I do know this video is generally a gimmick, however I’d completely hire a reasonably heavy carry quadruped for a few days to assist with a transfer.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

Is taking two minutes to excellently fold a shirt too lengthy, or will we even care how lengthy it takes, so long as it’s a robotic doing it?

[ Tokyo Robotics ]

TRON 2 × Wuji Hand 2 handles TCM pharmacy work: choosing, weighing, grinding, and packaging. The omnidirectional base frees the arms, whereas exact gripping and dual-arm drive management allow midair operations.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

One that genuinely is aware of issues about robots, Christian Hubicki, explains all the things about robots smashing into partitions.

[ Christian Hubicki ]