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Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab

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Boston Dynamics ] Im mostly impressed that making contact with that stick doesnt cause the robot to fall over. Tech United ] Autonomous manipulation in everyday tasks requires flexible action generation to handle complex, diverse real-world environments, such as objects with varying hardness and softness. Alpha-Biact ] Thanks, Masato!

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Video Friday: AI Model Gives Neo Robot Autonomy

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For the first time, NEO Gamma moves, understands, and interacts autonomously in complex human environments. Boston Dynamics ] I think this is the first time I’ve seen end-effector changers used for either feet or heads. Introducing Redwood—1X’s breakthrough AI model capable of doing chores around the home.

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Video Friday: Acrobot Error

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Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. This robot is built at a cost of 50 euros for patients who are not financially independent to get better treatment. [

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation will employ support from the US Steel industry to accelerate the development of molten oxide electrolysis (MOE), a new technology for production of primary iron and steel from ore. Colorado State University. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation

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In this work, we present LocoMan, a dexterous quadrupedal robot with a novel morphology to perform versatile manipulation in diverse constrained environments. Boston Dynamics ] Here’s some video of Field AI’s robots operating in relatively complex and unstructured environments without prior maps. CMU ] Thanks, Changyi!

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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It's less of a dig and more of an acknowledgement that getting mobile manipulators to usefully operate in semi-structured environments has been, and continues to be, a huge challenge. It might be effective when constrained to a research environment, but fundamentally, "platform" typically means "getting it to do (commercially?)

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The Coming Construction Boom

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Cities including Boston and New York are already spending substantial sums on projects to hold back the sea, which has begun encroaching in subways and road tunnels over the last 10 years. Now, with 3D printing along with general-form geometric CAD, new shapes will become possible even for low-cost buildings.

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