Robotics - General News

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/04/01/no-plans-for-killer-us-military-robots-yet.html
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6Viwwetf0gU
http://gizmodo.com/chainsaw-drone-is-like-something-out-of-our-worst-night-1768671339


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlhfMiWVV0&feature=player_embedded
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/sick-swordfighting-skills-keep-this-drone-from-crashing-1769124996​
 
From our friends at Festo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6zQr1_C9Q&feature=player_embedded

http://gizmodo.com/giant-delivery-blimp-sucks-stuff-up-and-then-poops-it-o-1769431570​

Note that the comments thread at linked article may be somewhat NSFW.
 
Somebody must have been reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY
 
Festo again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9QCOTisgIHQ
http://gizmodo.com/a-robot-that-spins-3d-webs-is-even-creepier-than-a-spid-1769877242​
 
Schaft this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iyZE0psQsX0
http://mashable.com/2016/04/09/google-bipedal-robot/#5DMMXkK1qqqY​
 
Interesting. No knees or upper legs but a lower leg mounted to an articulating vertical stage. The dynamic balance recovery is fairly quick as well. I didn't know Google had bought Schaft but I'm not surprised. Overall, the look of this thing reminds me of the little robots from "Silent Running".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_C5NIUu6FM
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/09/crewless-drone-ships-will-be-sailing-the-seas-by-2020/?utm_content=buffer07728&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
http://theweek.com/articles/617701/how-killer-robots-save-all
 
Down in Australia the UAV Outback Medical Express challenge has passed the Deliverable 2 checkpoint, which requires teams to send in technical reports and video evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFU8RYywyGQTg_-a86VqEs355tHPk4n59

The challenge essentially requires you to take off from a small grass strip, fly 20-30km along a route to a location >10km away (LOS), locate a patient, land 30-80m from them (terrain is uneven with trees and vegetation around), shut down, receive a blood sample, wait 60 seconds after being armed by the patient, take off and fly back the same 20-30km route.

15 minutes is given for setup, 60 minutes is permitted to complete the mission and another 15 minutes is given for pack up. Only 6 people are allowed to be present on the field and pilot / assist in the operation, no more than 2 aircraft can be used at the same time. Teams can fly at up to 1500ft, must abide by AMCA radio EIRP regulations and must follow implement strict autonomous flight termination systems to cover various system failures.

Most teams are going for quadplanes (hybrid multicopter / fixed wing aircraft), with a couple of STOL aircraft and at least one pure multicopter.

The price for winning is $50,000 and a keen eye from a number of industry sponsors.
 
https://youtu.be/h-6FbxjNsQU
http://gizmodo.com/robotic-snakes-are-the-stuff-of-undersea-nightmares-1771769733​
 
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/04/23/2318236/drone-fire-fighting-tested-in-nebraska
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/19ccfb542832417c89ff63e6d431a847/nebraska-researchers-test-new-firefighting-tool-drones
 
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/siemens-3d-printing-spiders-could-build-ships-and-planes-2016-4?r=US&IR=T​
 
https://gcaptain.com/human-like-robotic-diver-oceanone-could-revolutionize-subsea-exploration/
 
https://ig.ft.com/sites/seven-robots/

Note that not all of the above listed are 'true' robots.
 
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/mideast-africa/2016/05/08/introducing-israeli-12-kilo-killer-robot/83970684/?platform=hootsuite
 
Robot truck for long haul shipping. This company was founded by ex-Google driverless car engineers so they are already pretty far along. Apparently they have regulatory approval to be sending these things out along highways to build up the necessary drive time to prove out statistical safety performance. Comments on their videos have a lot of speculation on truck hijacking and using paintball guns on the windshield (which probably has no effect). Again, a significant boost in productivity but you have to wonder what new jobs are generated that offset the losses in truck driving. The service industry is also starting to feel the heat as AI enabled computers start getting into the act. Interesting times indeed.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-robot-you-might-be-on-to-something-1462546621

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK76W1kH4jA&feature=youtu.be
 
Prosthetic hand with touch sensory feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ayx-ohHT8M
 
fredymac said:
Robot truck for long haul shipping. This company was founded by ex-Google driverless car engineers so they are already pretty far along. Apparently they have regulatory approval to be sending these things out along highways to build up the necessary drive time to prove out statistical safety performance. Comments on their videos have a lot of speculation on truck hijacking and using paintball guns on the windshield (which probably has no effect). Again, a significant boost in productivity but you have to wonder what new jobs are generated that offset the losses in truck driving. The service industry is also starting to feel the heat as AI enabled computers start getting into the act. Interesting times indeed.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-robot-you-might-be-on-to-something-1462546621

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK76W1kH4jA&feature=youtu.be
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Don't know about the US, but all the major long haul truck firms in Canada are complaining that they can't hire enough drivers. Nobody wants to be on the road for days on end any more. The driver shortage has all the big firms turning away customers, some of whom are going back to the railroads.
 
https://news.usni.org/2016/05/23/cusv-contract-mine-hunting-mission
 
http://theweek.com/articles/619669/next-robots-synthetic-muscle
 
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2016/June/Pages/ArmyDevelopingRobotWithDeployableShield.aspx
 
The rise of Robotank...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6U2mfU3vY
 
Thank you for posting Bobbymike.

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2016/June/Pages/ArmyDevelopingRobotWithDeployableShield.aspx

10 20 yrs is long way to wait as it is need now and is in no way an alternative to the Manhattan Project like effort necessary for armored exos.
 
Graham1973 said:
The rise of Robotank...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6U2mfU3vY
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interesting concept of Russian ground Drone
follow by WHAT ?
CGI Dropping of something follow by dropping Evil Anti tanke Drones who camouflage as golf course
then attacking a historical reenactment of US tank battle from Vietnam...
Follow by a Quadcopter Drone wipe out a USAF Aircraft Museum
or is that trailer for new version of Command and Conquer ?...
 
http://www.special-ops.org/17458/warriors-of-steel-meet-russias-robot-army.html
 
Surgical robots (actually more like super precise waldo telemanipulators).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnv_3qn3Yc
 
https://www.rt.com/viral/346747-russian-robot-runaway-havoc/
 
That arm may look innocent but it can throw a cinder block at you when you're not looking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jvLalY6ubc
 
sferrin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYtDjaP-nds
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fredymac said:
That arm may look innocent but it can throw a cinder block at you when you're not looking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jvLalY6ubc
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A bit of background on our new robot overlord, SpotMini: http://gizmodo.com/boston-dynamics-made-a-robot-baby-giraffe-that-can-do-y-1782491650


In other robot news:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/intelligent-robot-remembers-learns-could-8248559

http://www.vocativ.com/332072/european-plan-robots-are-electronic-persons-should-pay-taxes/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/europes-robots-become-electronic-persons-under-draft-plan-170708335--sector.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-20/toyota-researcher-sees-cheap-robots-possible-by-mass-production
 
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/28/the-pleurobot-robo-salamander-crawls-and-swims-like-a-real-amphibian/
 
http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=Article-robotic-systems-may-take-bullet-soldiers
 
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/07/03/0848253/rolling-drone-delivery-robots-have-arrived
 
https://youtu.be/eUlKwvhSu3M
http://gizmodo.com/this-cyborg-stingray-is-the-coolest-thing-youll-see-all-1783279616
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/07/07/239206/robot-stingray-is-powered-by-rat-heart-cells​
 
my comment on that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c

oh before i forgot
at BAE the R&D division play to much StarCraft and Command&Conquer...
growing Aircraft in chemical Vat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKt_zQHQ-0k

...."Insufficient Vespene Gas."
 
sferrin said:
This is how you get The Thing guys.
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Indeed. Time to stock up on the tactical nukes.


In the meantime, here's a couple of other separate stories that may or may not be alarming in their own way:

http://gizmodo.com/the-freaky-artificial-muscles-on-this-human-skeleton-ar-1783445499

http://gizmodo.com/this-tiny-robot-lets-you-play-god-with-huge-ai-1783463899
 
Grey Havoc said:
sferrin said:
This is how you get The Thing guys.
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Indeed. Time to stock up on the tactical nukes.


In the meantime, here's a couple of other separate stories that may or may not be alarming in their own way:

http://gizmodo.com/the-freaky-artificial-muscles-on-this-human-skeleton-ar-1783445499

http://gizmodo.com/this-tiny-robot-lets-you-play-god-with-huge-ai-1783463899
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I liked the one DARPA was looking at several years ago that would be "fueled by any organic matter it could find". Basically it could eat stuff and run off the energy it provided. :eek:
 

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