Robotics - General News

Great work being done in the world of open-source autonomy / autopilots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLUc-VxsVU
 
Grey Havoc said:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38089984
Thank you for posting Mr Grey Havoc

and so should road construction.

unoccupied roads that is

'apologies, road closed due to robotic reconstruction'
 
Now this is what I call a Mozzie Zapper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugy_KRHUnqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMNI4pXsTA
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/12/05/wanted-robot-wranglers/
 
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-wall-jumping-robot-vertically-agile-built.html
 
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Dogo-The-tiny-Israeli-killer-robot-472015
 
http://gizmodo.com/were-pretty-sure-this-is-a-self-driving-uber-blowing-a-1790117361
http://gizmodo.com/california-to-uber-stop-your-self-driving-cabs-right-n-1790122142
 
If this isn't an example of good photoshopping then it's a case of too much Gundam fever.

Korean Gundam tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5HMYUHTuLs
 
Interview with Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics featuring new video scenes of their latest bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12pM47Tdhw
 
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/stanford-humanoid-submarine-robot
 
Darpa prosthetic arm made available to Walter Reed. It isn't clear if the nerve control mechanism and direct bone attachment shown in the 2nd video is used for the arm being made available for general use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEltvQx583g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1NkWl_W2Y
 
http://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2016/12/23/mwi_podcast_autonomy_on_the_battlefield_with_august_cole.html
 
fredymac said:
If this isn't an example of good photoshopping then it's a case of too much Gundam fever.

Korean Gundam tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5HMYUHTuLs

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/avatar-style-korean-manned-robot-takes-first-baby-114647363.html
 
Via Orion's blog:
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ORIGINAL CAPTION: Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, on December 27, 2016. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie "Avatar" and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company.

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-avatar-style-korean-robot-baby.html​
 
At the risk of being a buzzkill, the Hankook Mirae robot is almost certainly a scam or at least an involved bit of performance art, not a real robot.

http://www.livescience.com/57296-giant-humanoid-robot-video-hoax.html


New video clips purporting to show a 13-foot-tall (4 meters) humanoid robot piloted by a person in its torso look like something straight out of "Avatar" or "Transformers," but a Live Science investigation has revealed reasons to believe some skepticism might be in order.

The robot clips have been picked up by a variety of online news and technology outlets, including Kotaku and Wired UK. But the South Korean company that is supposedly developing the robot has virtually no online presence and was unfamiliar to robotics researchers contacted by Live Science.

Furthermore, the only source for the videos or any information about them is the Facebook and Instagram pages of a designer whose website mentions a conceptual art project about a "fictional robotics corporation that develops its products in a not-so-distant future."
 
If it is indeed a viral marketing stunt, there are going to be a lot of irritated people.

On another note: http://phys.org/news/2017-01-intelligent-robot-chess-hobby.html
 
Grey Havoc said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHfv7xa758

Thank you Grey Havoc, that was awesome.
Believe someone at BAE even once believed in mecha based on a design seen on this forum.. Most believe Mecha believers are nuts.. others see them as inevitable.
 
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118517-robot-skin-senses-warm-bodies-like-a-snake-locating-nearby-prey/
 
A Trailer for a film from 2013 that for some reason has failed to make release...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1p0_R8ZLB0
 
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/1/14468126/boston-dynamics-new-wheeled-robot-handle

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boston_dynamics_handle_jump.gif
 
Again I wonder how is it Boston Dynamics robots are so quick compared to everyone else. This indicates they are processing dynamic balancing equations in real time and have very low latency actuators or predictive models which let them guess and refine actions as they arise.

Go to 3:45 mark in the video to see more on Handle with commentary from Marc Raibert. There is also some new footage of their other robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3isM
 
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/02/28/blitzkrieg_redux_the_coming_warbot_revolution_110880.html
 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-02/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions
 
https://www.facebook.com/1774709109449214/videos/1815203362066455/
 
https://youtu.be/nRmorQmGqVM
http://gizmodo.com/you-will-want-nasas-miniature-alien-rover-as-your-perso-1793264167​
 
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/03/18/0524205/bruce-schneier-calls-for-iot-legislation-argues-the-internet-is-becoming-one-giant-robot
 
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/20/14979620/jeff-bezos-robot-method-2-mars2017-conference
 
Another slow robot. If I was a journalist I might ask one of the researchers what they think is the key to faster movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onrSEUyIubM
 
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/scientists-graphene-power-electronic-skin-feel-060434878.html

http://gizmodo.com/the-robots-of-the-future-may-be-controlled-by-magnetic-1793812957

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/03/29/0013216/scientists-turn-mammalian-cells-into-complex-biocomputers
 
If they get a wood framing 'bot up and running you almost have enough to build a house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRCWnsFnC4&feature=youtu.be
 
fredymac said:
If they get a wood framing 'bot up and running you almost have enough to build a house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRCWnsFnC4&feature=youtu.be
In the future they'll hopefully be able to build very cheap houses, which is great cause no one will have a job ;D
 
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/watch-out-iran-israels-missile-firing-robot-ships-are-coming-19752
 
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/brinkmann-on-business/os-bz-disney-soft-robots-20170407-story.html
http://io9.gizmodo.com/disney-could-go-westworld-with-new-patent-filing-for-so-1794152225
 
Compilation in the related field of animatronics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iVJExd5vA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PlJ4e_86YM
 

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