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.
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Enjoy today’s videos!
Just like a real human, Acrobot will sometimes kick you in the face.
[ Acrobotics ]
Thanks, Elizabeth!
You had me at “wormlike, limbless robots.”
[ GitHub ] via [ Georgia Tech ]
I would say that in the middle of a rainstorm is probably the best time to start a fire that you expect to be extinguished by a robot.
[ IHMC ]
[ Boston Dynamics ]
This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing its self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo.
Thanks, Bram!
You should read our in-depth article on Stretch 3, so if you haven’t yet, consider this as just a teaser.
[ Hello Robot ]
[ Project ]
Thanks, Jihong!
Tony Punnoose Valayil from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Robotics wrote in to share some very low-cost hand-rehabilitation robots for home use.
[ BAS ]
Some very impressive work here from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), showing a drone tracking its position using radar and lidar-based odometry in some nightmare (for robots) environments, including a long tunnel that looks the same everywhere and a hallway full of smoke.
I’m sorry, but people should really know better than to make videos like this for social robot crowdfunding by now.
It’s on Kickstarter for about $300, and the fact that it’s been funded so quickly tells me that people have already forgotten about the social robotpocalypse.
[ Kickstarter ]
[ Boston Dynamics ]
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