Robotics - General News

[bobbymike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpIMJaIkf4

 

[Michel Van]

Total off topic but important:

It's not called Football anymore
According the Tall Furry Hat, it's called: "BIG. LEATHER. EGG. FIGHT"
jump to 1:16 and see what is coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwH04FeeVlQ

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/12/self-driving-trucks-trains-and-drilling-save-costs-and-boost-mine-production.html

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/12/12/red_robots_risin_112770.html

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21732507-soon-they-will-travel-swarms-military-robots-are-getting-smaller-and-more

 

[Graham1973]

Some videos of the worlds first armed drone vehicle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhK8L0PgPdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dUSEWDq75w

 

[sferrin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuu_g7svoE


The one we'd really like though:

 

[Graham1973]

One of those 'CGI demo films' you can find on YouTube with some pretty interesting combat robot designs, including a 'big dog' walking artillery piece at around 02:22 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nc8a9gnDso

 

[bobbymike]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2017/12/18/forget-bans-un-stuck-on-defining-killer-robots/?utm_content=bufferc273d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.Wj7f-nlG02y

 

[Graham1973]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGsdaqpq-5w

 

[bobbymike]

https://scout.com/military/warrior/Article/Army-Upgrades-Fleet-of-War-Robots-112895808

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-30/nobody-s-ready-for-the-killer-robot

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2018/01/03/mantadroid-could-be-the-wet-electric-flapping-robotic-sea-scout-of-the-future/

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/20-wheeled-squad-support-robots-have-been-ordered-by-the-us-army.html

 

[bobbymike]

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2018/2/6/seeing-thinking-robots-to-assist-troops

 

[bobbymike]

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/02/us-army-now-holding-drills-ground-robots-shoot/145854/?oref=defenseone_today_nl

 

[fredymac]

Spot Mini with arm. I suppose this is the closest thing yet to a consumer bot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyU3lKzoio

 

[muttbutt]

...Consumer of people you mean

 

[bobbymike]

https://overthehorizonmdos.com/2018/02/16/drop-zone-the-rise-of-the-machines/

 

[fredymac]

In the future, people will amuse themselves by sneaking up behind robots and yelling "Boston!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuA50H9uek

 

[bobbymike]

In the future, people will amuse themselves by sneaking up behind robots and yelling "Boston!".

OK I was waiting for it to spin around and clamp onto that guys............

 

[bobbymike]

http://www.alphr.com/robotics/1008163/ocado-robot-machine-engineers-fix

Deploying the first models around a year ago, Ocado’s fleet of robots scoot about Ocado’s enormous warehouse, picking up goods and delivering them into the open arms of their human overlords. I mean... colleagues. One of these robots, a creepy mechanical hand, is able to pick and pack fruit and veg without harming or crushing the produce.

 

[fredymac]

Not exactly an army of T3’s advancing over a field of human skulls but amusing nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_mze6Emr_o

 

[sferrin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw_LF6cUXfY

 

[Rhinocrates]

If Game of Thrones were more realistic, you'd see a few Starks acting like this:

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

 

[fredymac]

Spot meets Cassie. Cassie is from Agility Robotics which has been around for a couple years now and trying to find applications such as grocery delivery. I'm not sure how that would work unless it can outrun hungry dogs and hobos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77NAz0HitI

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

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/terrifying-robot-spider-can-roll-12277544#ICID=OffSiteVideo

Terrifying robot SPIDER can roll up into a ball and somersault towards you

The robot, dubbed BionicWheelBot, is inspired by the flic-flac spider - a species discovered in the Erg Chebbi desert on the edge of the Sahara in 2008

 

[bobbymike]

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/04/us-uk-test-robot-breachers-drones-in-germany/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61926956&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--aeNtd38WqsZ6hpD9g4mPu3ZLrd-tD76vrntbtAaD1BjcioogghcxvqD4smQRGcS9Jke3DnQVGGcEbp1pNkFqU1iG4-A&_hsmi=61926956

If someone has to die, let it be a robot. In particular, clearing obstacles — barbed wire, mines, barriers — under enemy fire is one of the most dangerous things that human soldiers do, so why not let the sappers handle it by remote control? That’s the new way of war the US Army is exploring.

So this week, American and British robots blazed a path for human troops, generating smoke, bulldozing (inert) mines, and filling in an anti-tank ditch so manned vehicles could advance. Held at the Army’s massive training center in Grafenwoehr, Germany, the field experiment will provide useful feedback to US Army leaders racing to develop a prototype armed combat robot by 2019.

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.army.mil/article/203649

SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- Once unmanned ground combat vehicles are developed and deployed en masse, the battlefield area controlled by a brigade combat team will increase 10-fold, predicted Don Sando.

Sando, the deputy to the commanding general at the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Georgia, spoke Tuesday during a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored conference on ground robotics. He also said that in addition to providing greater lethality, these robots will save lives and will dramatically improve sustainment through autonomous re-supply.

Soldiers working in explosive ordnance disposal have already benefitted from ground robots, namely in lives saved, Sando said. Robots are expected to proliferate throughout the rest of the Army, where they will assist Soldiers with hauling equipment and providing situational awareness.

 

[fredymac]

As usual, subject to copyright removal. This series seems to date to around 2010 or a little earlier and centers around European robotics research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBgVZk1LQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he5x0hWX98g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI8YRaiIzN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVtOk5ESPGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdZbjeotp0

 

[fredymac]

Google AI assistant demo. It sounds impressive but I would guess this thing would still butcher Youtube translations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0

 

[Graham1973]

Another Robocaller, but possibly not as advanced as the last one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWHiFj01H4&feature=youtu.be

 

[bobbymike]

Google AI assistant demo. It sounds impressive but I would guess this thing would still butcher Youtube translations.

Sure if you have an appointment May 3rd

 

[fredymac]

Spot Mini autonomous navigation and Atlas picks up the pace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve9kWX_KXus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSohj-Iclc

 

[ouroboros]

Spot Mini autonomous navigation and Atlas picks up the pace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve9kWX_KXus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSohj-Iclc

Apparently approximately 100 spot mini preproduction robots will be available for purchase later this year, and general production next year. "head" arm accessory sold separately...

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-18/the-u-s-army-is-turning-to-robot-soldiers

From the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and, in doing so, better protect the soldier who wields it. But in the next evolution of combat, the U.S. Army is heading down a path that may lead humans off the battlefield entirely.

Over the next few years, the Pentagon is poised to spend almost $1 billion for a range of robots designed to complement combat troops.

 

[fredymac]

AI debater from IBM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wgf75GwCM

I want to see it go up against a real pro.

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

 

[Michel Van]

I see already the Headlines

IBM AI debater, crash and burn as it try argue with John Cleese

 

[fredymac]

Latest Disney animatronics. The first clip below features compliance in starting/terminating motions by adding pneumatics into the actuators. The 2nd clip is a robot stunt double able to do aerobatics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4mn5BstQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENa98h7M7qY

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/5/17537160/mits-cheetah-3-robot-run-up-stairs

MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot doesn’t need to see to run up a set of stairs, a new video from MIT shows. Even without cameras to dodge obstacles by sight, the 90-pound robot is equipped with new algorithms that help it navigate its environment by touch.

We’ve seen robots climb stairs before, like Boston Dynamics’ adorable SpotMini. But Spot uses cameras. And the team behind the Cheetah 3 want it to operate without seeing the path in front of it; relying too much on vision could slow it down, or make it stumble. “What if it steps on something that a camera can’t see? What will it do?” Sangbae Kim, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT who designed the robot, says in a news release. “That’s where blind locomotion can help. We don’t want to trust our vision too much.”

I would test this robot by adding facial recognition ability and have it 'hunt' that person around campus.