Robotics & Business

Ever heard of Real-to-Sim-to-Real robot training? Check out👇🏽to find out more. Research from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) introduces RialTo, a new framework that redefines how robots learn manipulation tasks🤖. Traditionally, reinforcement learning (RL) requires vast real-world data, which can be costly💵. RialTo flips the script by creating "digital twin" simulation environments from minimal real-world data, allowing robots to robustly train in simulations before seamlessly transitioning to real-world tasks. The result? Over 67% improvement📈 in policy robustness across various challenging tasks like stacking dishes or placing books on shelves, without extensive human data collection. Perhaps the biggest impact is the reduction of the barriers to adopting robotics for everyday tasks, making automation more accessible and reliable. A big shout out to the team for this amazing breakthrough! Pulkit Agrawal, Marcel Torne VillasevilAnthony Simeonov, Zechu Li, April Chan, Tao Chen, Abhishek Gupta [video: @MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)] ➡️ Follow Robotics & Business to stay up to date with the latest and greatest in #Tech and Robotics ➡️ Like and reshare with someone who will find this cool! #Robotics #AI #Automation #Innovation #Simulation #MachineLearning

An #AMR That Can Move Different Types of Load Carriers?! Check it out👇🏽 Instead of transporting the material itself, FlexQube's Navigator Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) couple with different load carriers and transport them where needed providing flexibility where 1 AMR can transport several types of load carriers. Here’s how it works: 🔗The AMR uses a universal coupling system that allows it to pick up, transport, and drop off different sizes/shapes of load carriers. 🔎It identifies the size of the load carrier and automatically adjust its safety fields ensuring safe operation around human workers. 🗺️It operates without physical line guidance on the floor, using advanced navigation systems to move seamlessly in mixed traffic environments. It is particularly beneficial in environments where heavy materials that vary in size and weight need to be transported efficiently and safely. Currently the Navigator AMR patents are being granted in China and the US. Congrats! Mårten Frostne, Per Augustsson, Jan Brettmann, Anders Fogelberg [video: FlexQube] If you liked this consider liking and resharing! Also follow Robotics & Business for constant updates #tech and #robotics #automation #warehouseautomation #autonomousmobilerobot #warehousing #materialhandling #roboticsnbusiness

🚀 Teleoperation Breakthrough: Control Robots from thousands of miles away with Open-TeleVision 🚀 Researchers at UC San Diego and Massachusetts Institute of Technology led by Xuxin Cheng & Jialong Li released Open-TeleVision, an open-source tele-op system allowing users to control robots from virtually anywhere. Traditional tele-op systems often suffer from limited perception and require physical proximity. Open-TeleVision uses VR for a, stereoscopic view from the robot's perspective. How It Works🤔❓ 📷Active Stereo RGB Camera: Mounted on the robot to tracks and replicate the operator's head movements for a synchronized, stereoscopic view. ⚙️Data Transmission: Lifelike visual feedback loops are created by transmitting visual data to the operator's VR headset. 🦾Motion Capture and Replication: The operator's arm & hand movements are captured and translated into precise robotic actions. 🎓Learning Capabilities: The system records high-quality data of successful & unsuccessful attempts, useful for for imitation learning. This opens up potential possibilities in health care (think surgical robots) and others. The ability to provide high-quality data for imitation learning also paves the way for more intelligent and autonomous robotic systems. Awesome stuff Xuxin Cheng, Shiqi Yang, Ge Yang, Xiaolong Wang 👉 Follow Robotics & Business page for more updates on the latest in #robotics and #automation! 👍 Like and reshare this if you find this development exciting too! [video: via Xuxin Cheng YT] #Robotics #Automation #Teleoperation #Innovation #VR #AI #ImitationLearning

Watch the video to see what it's like to use a robotaxi from the customer's perspective🤖🚕! Waymo looks to revolutionize ride-hailing with their self-driving vehicles. This video captures the full experience of ordering and riding in a Waymo car, now available to everyone in San Francisco without the need for a waiting list📃 While these technologies face heavy scrutiny over safety and efficacy, the industry continues to push toward fully autonomous driving. Stepping into a car and being transported to your destination without a driver must be a surreal experience. Would you try it? Really cool stuff from Jackie Hyun, Julia Ilina and the whole Waymo team. We look forward to future developments and more videos of Waymo on the road! If you like this leave a like and share with others! Follow Robotics & Business for more like this! #automation #autonomousdriving #autonomousvehicles #robotaxi #robotics #roboticsnbusiness [video: Rashadceomia, Instagram]

Revolutionizing Automotive Seat Ironing💺 See this robot solution that autonomously irons car seats! The automotive industry has been very receptive to #robotics & #automation partly due to many tasks being highly repetitive and dangerous. Flexiv Robotics's uses their Rizon 4 robot and an off-the-shelf steam iron to tackle the time-consuming and labor-intensive task of ironing leather seats. Some key features are: 🗝️Real-time Data Collection for quality assurance and error detection. 🗝️Contour Tracking for precise adaptation to seat curvature. 🗝️Rapid Deployment Very cool solution from Xiyang Yeh, Howard Huang, Shiquan Wang, Jeff Ng and others for always pushing the boundaries of the use cases for their robots🤖Looking forward to seeing more use cases [video: Flexiv Robotics, YT] If you found this cool consider liking and sharing with others! Also follow Robotics & Business for more updates like this. #automotiveindustry #robots #roboticnbusiness

Teleoperation using Apple Vision Pros?! Watch the vid👇🏽to see it do cool stuff Researchers at CREATE Lab led by Kai Junge recently released a new demo of teleoperating a robot hand using the Apple Vision Pro. They managed to pick & place several objects, grasp cards🃏, and grasp multiple items in one hand🤚🏽! Really cool solution with lots of potential capabilities. If you found this cool consider leaving a like and resharing. Also follow Robotics & Business for more like this. [video: Kai Junge, X.com] #teleoperation #robothand #robotics #roboticsnbusiness

Figure 🫱🏽🫲🏽 OpenAI. This partnership will enable humanoid robots to understand and act on verbal commands. This groundbreaking partnership aims to integrate advanced language models into Figure’s robots. OpenAI's research combined with Figure's hardware and software expertise will enhance the robots' ability to process and reason from language🗣️. This is massive news! Congrats to Brett Adcock Lee Randaccio and the rest of the team at Figure for this big milestone. Excited for more updates! If you’re also excited about this, leave a like, share this video, and follow Robotics & Business for more updates on the cutting-edge of robotics. Got a cool robot project? DM us to get featured on our page! [video: Figure, YT] #FigureRobotics #OpenAI #AI #HumanoidRobots #TechInnovation

Robots repairing each other🤯?! Check out the dexterity of the ALOHA 2 Unleashed Robot👇🏽! 🤖 Back in January, we saw Aloha's impressive kitchen. Now watch these dual-arm robots autonomously tackle 3 of the most challenging tasks: tying shoelaces👟, replacing a robot finger 🔧, and hanging a shirt👕. The Aloha 2 robots boast incredible upgrades like low-friction grippers for smaller objects, advanced RealSense cameras, and a new simulation model for better learning. This is a huge leap forward in robot dexterity and autonomy! A big shoutout to the team led by Stanford Ph.D. student Tony Z. Zhao, assistant professor Chelsea Finn, and researchers from Google DeepMind Jonathan Tompson, Danny Driess, Pete Florence, Kamyar Ghasemipour, Spencer Goodrich, and Ayzaan Wahid If you're also fascinated by these advancements leave a like, share this video, and Robotics & Business for more cutting-edge updates. Want to be featured on our page? Drop a comment or send a message! [video: Ayzaan Wahid, X] #Robotics #Aloha2 #Innovation

This setup👇🏽combines 3 complimentary solutions➡️A humanoid robot, a collaborative mobile robot, & a robotic storage system! At Playground Global, this setup aims to integrate Boxbot's automated storage & retrieval system, Agility Robotics' humanoid robot, and Robust.AI's collaborative mobile robot. In this system: ➡️Boxbot retrieves a parcel. ➡️The humanoid robot picks it up and places it on the mobile robot. ➡️The mobile robot transports it. Will we see future setups leverage complimentary solutions to create more robust and flexible systems? Let us know your thoughts in the comments👇🏽 All in all super cool collab and great work from Katja Gagen, Ben Gruettner, Jamie Luong, Liz Clinkenbeard, Austin Oehlerking and the rest of the team from all companies involved. If you liked this please like and reshare! Follow Robotics & Business for more! [video via: Robust.AI, YT] #humanoid #humanoidrobot #roboticsnbusiness #robotics #cobot #collaborativerobot #automation

See this robot perform various tasks by mimicking human actions in real time🤖! Researchers at Stanford introduced "Human Plus", a system that allows humanoids to mimic human actions in real time using a RGB camera. This is how it works: ➡️Training a basic control policy using reinforcement learning and a dataset comprising 40 hours of human motion data. ➡️Transfer the trained policy to real-world robots, allowing them to mimic human movements in real-time (shadowing) ➡️Operators teleoperate humanoids to collect whole-body data for learning different tasks where the collected data is used to make the robot autonomous. This technique enables robots to learn complex tasks quickly and accurately by directly mimicking human actions. This could mean faster and more cost-effective deployment of robots across various sectors. Very cool breakthrough Zipeng Fu, Qingqing Zhao, Qi Wu, Gordon Wetzstein, Chelsea Finn If you found this as cool as we did drop a like and reshare! Follow Robotics & Business for more! [video: Zipeng Fu YT] #humanoid #robotics #humanoidrobot #autonomousrobot