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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ABB's Health-Care Robots Will Have a New Feature: They Can Move - Barron's
Robotics maker ABB launched a partnership involving its collaborative robots in Texas on Wednesday. The company's so-called "YuMi" robot arms are moving into a new end market: health care. It's a new industry for technology mainly used on the shop floor.
Typically, robot arms used in industrial environments are stationary. What's more, the largest robots aren't collaborative at all; they're usually fenced off from humans while they execute heavy, dirty, and dangerous tasks, such as welding car bodies on an assembly line. Collaborative robots , on the other hand, are designed to work safely alongside humans! Videos for Military Drills For Robots : Researchers Two-step training helps robots interpret human language | Cornell Chronicle cornell.edu!! In addition to being smaller, they are easier to use, enabling co-bots to do different jobs without extensive reprogramming downtime.
There is another category of robotic automation beyond the robotic arms industrial investors may recognize: autonomous guided vehicles, or AGVs. This category of robots can move goods around a plant or deliver packages! 3:21 Turkish Troops Cross Into Syria; Iran Launches Military Drill Near Turkish Border Internet Archive!! Amazon.com (AMZN), for instance, bought AGV maker Kiva Systems in 2012. Now orange, autonomous trolleys carry inventory racks around Amazon distribution centers.
Watch a two-legged robot balance and spin thanks to drone propellers - The Verge
Humanoid robots have come a long, long way since Honda's Asimo took a nasty tumble down the stairs . Heck, we're seeing full gymnastics routines from the Boston Dynamics Atlas now.
But why should robots be limited by their legs, even if that's their primary propulsion? That's a question Caltech is toying with on its new LEONARDO robot , short for "LEgs ONboARD drOne," and this is the first real video of it in action (via BoingBoing ).
Simply put, it's a relatively lightweight walking robot that balances more like a drone than a typical bipedal bot — because it's literally got a set of drone propellers instead of arms. (It reminds us of this University of Tokyo bot with a quadcopter for a head.) Perhaps it's not as impressive as Disney's flying robotic stuntmen , but how often do you see a robot ballerina stand on one leg and twirl?
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! 1:41 U.S. Army medical personnel conduct Combat Training Lane 1, EFMB CLT1 SOUTH KOREA 09.23.2019 YouTube!! 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! 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.!! Each smarticle was outfitted with a light sensor that caused it to stop moving when it got too bright! Military Drills for Robots: Army researchers test human ...www. robot ...ADELPHI, Md. -- 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.!! 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 .
Not to change the topic here:
Police Robot on Patrol Completely Ignores Woman Trying to Summon The Police
When a woman in a park near Los Angeles saw people fighting and tried to summon help via a police robot patrolling nearby, the robot merely told her to "step out of the way" and continued along its pre-determined route, according to NBC News .
No help came until the spectators called 911 directly, raising the question of what, if any , function these robots are actually supposed to serve.
It turns out that the robot, a K5 model named "HP RoboCop", patrols the park on behalf of the police department - but doesn't have any way of summoning human officers to the scene, Huntingdon Park police chief Cosme Lozano told NBC.
Instead, he said, calls go to Knightscope - and will continue to do so until the police department develops protocols for handling calls made through the police bot. It's surprising news, given that the robot has been patrolling the park since June.
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. 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. Their laptop-size robotic rovers can move and sense the environment through a camera. 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. He and Hahn told Science how they're using their unusual new test subjects. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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