Video Friday: Swarm Control
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Enjoy today's videos!
Imagine being able to control a swarm of drones with just your hands or gestures. In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together.
[ Dronisos ]
There's a new Mini Pupper on Kickstarter, now with ROS 2!
[ Kickstarter ]
Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about who they connect with, enabling more scalable self-assembly.
Paper at IROS next week!
[ MIT CSAIL ]
Thanks, Rachel!
This summer, we held a contest seeking ideas robots inspired by nature, that could help the world. And then we made the winning idea into a real working prototype! The winner this year was Gillbert" by Eleanor Mackinstosh, a robotic fish that filters microplastics using its gills.
Thanks, Rob!
I've never seen a real centaur climb up onto a block while carrying a payload, but I bet it would look almost exactly like Centauro doing it.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Ioannis!
Enjoy our favorite obstacle avoidance highlights from the Skydio community! They make showcasing the intellect of our software sublimely easy. The power of autonomous cinematography is displayed best by our incredible Skydians!
That last clip is especially impressive, since if you look closely, you can see the drone avoiding a wire while flying directly toward the setting sun.
[ Skydio ]
Somehow I missed this adorable little robot of questionable usefulness from Sony.
Meet poiq, your future buddy robot. Its AI gets smarter and more individualized through questions and conversations with users. Sony is reimagining communication and connection, and developing one-of-a-kind friendships between humans and robots in the process.
[ Sony ]
Spot's got permission to dance! Check out this dance created for the BTS Yet To Come in BUSAN" concert.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Awawa, awawa...
[ ICD Lab ]
Ascento, on patrol.
[ Ascento Robotics ]
Here's what happens if you grab a Wing delivery drone's cable and start running.
[ Wing ]
Detecting an overheating motor can be the difference between a $1,000 repair or a $50,000 replacement. As a result, routine thermal inspections are a major part of predictive maintenance operations, but collecting this valuable information frequently is still a challenge in many facilities. Agile mobile robots like Spot are transforming condition monitoring with dynamic sensing, so industrial teams can make the most of their predictive maintenance programs.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Robotnik is specialized in the development of industrial robotic applications based in mobile robots and mobile manipulators. Here [are] some AMR developed and manufactured by us.
[ Robotnik ]
How many robot dogs does it take to explore a football field? Fewer than it would if they weren't working together, that's for sure.
[ Deep Robotics ]
During Summer 2022 our group demoed ANYmal and Spot carrying out in the context of construction progress monitoring at Costain's Gatwick Airport Train Station site. This was the final demo of the MEMMO Horizon Europe Project.
[ Oxford ]
Lex Fridman interviews Kate Darling.
[ Lex Fridman ]
In this week's CMU RI Seminar, Nidhi Kalra from The RAND Corporation answers the question, What (else) can you do with a robotics degree?"
[ CMU RI ]