Robotic manipulation demo(s)

Very nerdy, fun to watch... Makes you appreciate the speed of robotic manipulators.

 

 From Laughing Squid. 

They can go much faster by the way... For example:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Kpv-ZOcKY

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oeOYMRvuQ

Also:

• from Tesla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

And, robot playing table tennis:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

New robot from Alphabet company

A Japanese branch of Alphabet introduced a new robot. Here is a video:

For comparison, here is a video of the robot created by another branch that Alphabet is trying to divest. 

I understand that Boston Dynamics has military connections (to say the least), but... But...

 Can somebody push the Schaft robot with a stick please?

This years TR35 has 3 roboticists... and 3 Turkish researchers

Travis Deyle mentions that 2015 TR25 list includes 3 roboticists (one being Dr. Deyle). While checking out the list, I realized that this list of 25 researchers/scientists includes three Turks, all female.

Congratulations Canan Dağdeviren, Gözde Durmuş and Duygu Kayaman!

Robotics news from IEEE Spectrum

Here is the link to IEEE Spectrum magazine's robotics news page.

Subtopics are:

• Space Robots 
• Home Robots 
• Medical Robots 
• Robot Sensors & Actuators 
• Robotics Software 
• Industrial Robots 
• Military Robots 
• Humanoid Robots 
• Artificial Intelligence 
• DIY Robots 
• Aerial Robots

A $3K 6-DOF manipulator? Sign me up.

Automata is designing a cheap manipulator.

The price will probably end up at least twice the quoted number, but still it is significantly better than what I have seen recently at RoboBusiness Expo where all 6- and 7-DOF manipulators in display were around $25-28K.