Army researchers tested ground robots performing military-style exercises, much like Soldier counterparts, at a robotics testing site in Pennsylvania recently as part of a 10-year research project designed to push the research boundaries in robotics and autonomy.
RoMan, short for Robotic Manipulator, is a tracked robot that is easily recognized by its robotic arms and hands -- necessary appendages to remove heavy objects and other road debris from military vehicles' paths.What's harder to detect is the amount of effort that went into programming the robot to manipulate complex environments.
The exercise was one of several recent integration events involving a decade of research led by scientists and engineers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory who teamed with counterparts from the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and General Dynamics Land Systems.
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Could robots be psychology's new lab rats? | Science | AAAS
Artificial intelligence–equipped rovers could offer psychologists a new — and highly malleable — model of the brain.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Sending a mouse through a maze can tell you a lot about how its little brain learns. But what if you could change the size and structure of its brain at will to study what makes different behaviors possible? That's what Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn are proposing! Videos for Military Drills For Robots : Researchers Two-step training helps robots interpret human language | Cornell Chronicle cornell.edu!! The cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, both at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, are running versions of classic psychology experiments on robots equipped with artificial intelligence! 3:21 Turkish Troops Cross Into Syria; Iran Launches Military Drill Near Turkish Border Internet Archive!! Their laptop-size robotic rovers can move and sense the environment through a camera! 1:41 U.S. Army medical personnel conduct Combat Training Lane 1, EFMB CLT1 SOUTH KOREA 09.23.2019 YouTube!! And they're guided by computers running neural networks–models that bear some resemblance to the human brain .
Barenholtz presented this "robopsychology" approach here last week at the American Psychological Association's Technology Mind & Society Conference! Military drills for robots - techxplore.com ...military - drills - robots .html Army researchers tested ground robots performing military -style exercises, much like Soldier counterparts, at a robotics testing site in Pennsylvania recently as part of a 10-year research project designed to push the research boundaries in robotics and autonomy. RoMan, short for Robotic Manipulator ...!! He and Hahn told Science how they're using their unusual new test subjects! Military drills for robots | SVMAKERS.ORG svmakers.org/ military - drills - for-robots Military drills for robots 54 mins ago Army researchers tested ground robots performing military-style exercises , much like Soldier counterparts, at a robotics testing site in Pennsylvania recently as part of a 10-year research project designed to push the research boundaries in robotics and autonomy.!! The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Bio-inspired theoretical research may make robots more effective on the future battlefield --
Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory have been looking to identify a design that would allow the artificial nanomotor to take advantage of Brownian motion, the property of particles to agitatedly move simply because they are warm.
The CCDC ARL researchers believe understanding and developing these fundamental mechanics are a necessary foundational step toward making informed decisions on the viability of new directions in robotics involving the blending of synthetic biology, robotics, and dynamics and controls engineering.
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"By controlling the stiffness of different geometrical features of a simple lever-arm design, we found that we could use Brownian motion to make the nanomotor more capable of reaching desirable positions for creating linear motion," said Dean Culver, a researcher in CCDC ARL's Vehicle Technology Directorate. "This nano-scale feature translates to more energetically efficient actuation at a macro scale, meaning robots that can do more for the warfighter over a longer amount of time."
Watch a robot made of robots move around | Science | AAAS
Good news for small, helpless robots who long to be a part of something bigger: Researchers have found a way to create "robots made of robots" that can move around, even though the individual parts can't travel on their own.
To create this robot horde, researchers designed several roughly iPhone-size machines called "smarticles"—short for smart particles—that could flap their small arms up and down but could not move from place to place by themselves. They then put five of the smarticles in a plastic ring. This group of robots—which the researchers call a "supersmarticle"—could move by itself in random directions as the individual smarticles collided with each other.
The team then created an algorithm that allowed the supersmarticles to move as a group toward a source of light. Each smarticle was outfitted with a light sensor that caused it to stop moving when it got too bright. When the front robots closest to the bulb stopped moving, the robots in the back, which were in the shadow of the front robots, kept flapping their arms and bumping into each other; they eventually pushed the whole group forward toward the light (see video), the team reports today in Science Robotics .
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Google Brain's ROBEL benchmark lets devs track AI quality on affordable robots | VentureBeat
Benchmarks made to measure the performance of AI systems that control robots are often limited to expensive hardware designed for industrial environments that can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Researchers from UC Berkeley and Google Brain addressed this problem by introducing Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots ( ROBEL ), an open source platform designed to encourage rapid experimentation and on-hardware reinforcement learning. ROBEL also comes with benchmark tasks specifically made for tracking the quality of AI systems on lower-cost robots.
Naturally, more affordable robots designed to work with platforms and performance benchmarks make adoption more likely by developers, students, or startups interested in iterating to advance the field.
ROBEL is made to work with D’Claw , a three-fingered robotic hand, and D’Kitty , a four-legged robot. Made by Trossen Robotics, fully assembled versions of these robots sell for $3,200 and $3,700 respectively. D’Claw is a 9-degrees-of-freedom (9DoF) device while D’Kitty is a 12-degrees-of-freedom device (12DoF).
Caltech's hovering bird-like robot that could explore Mars - The Washington Post
In research centers around the world, roboticists have for decades been on a quest to perfect bipedal locomotion in machines.
They're making progress, but for all the flashy shots of back-flipping , log-hopping robots racking up views on YouTube, researchers say, there are far more failures and dead ends that the public never sees.
That's because bipedal locomotion –– while extremely useful for moving humans up stairs, over mountains or across complex surfaces –– offers so little room for error in machines. While people can generally pick themselves up after falling over, taking our complex ability to regain balance for granted, researchers say, it's still exceedingly difficult to design an upright walking robot that can do the same, especially as it moves across different surfaces.
Instead of creating more sophisticated computer programs to enhance robotic balance, researchers at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology decided to bypass the issue altogether by removing gravity from the equation. The result is a newly-unveiled machine that they've dubbed Leonardo, which stands for "LEg ON Aerial Robotic DrOne."
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