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Enjoy today’s videos!
There’s really nothing I can say to prepare you for this German music video, which features Spot for some reason.
I’m told that the music video is about how the idealized version of a forest is somewhat at odds with technology and that bringing your fancy fleece jackets and robots along with you into nature can kind of ruin the experience. I get it. Also, that IR shot of Spot at night is suuuper creepy.
[ Deichkind ]
Thanks, Thilo!
I’m going to assume that KIMLAB is not at all confused about which superhero has what equipment, and instead that Spot is cosplaying that one specific scene in Avengers: Endgame.
[ KIMLAB ]
Dongwon Son, who’s now at Ph.D. student at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, wrote in to share this work he did at Samsung Research. Somehow, they know exactly what my desk looks like most of the time.
[ Github ]
Thanks, Dongwon!
Rethink Robotics and Sawyer: still a thing!
[ Rethink ]
The designer of one of the most destructive combat robots ever built gives some tips on how to hit harder.
Some satisfying precision syringe filling.
[ Flexiv ]
When you put the Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Operations Team together with Boston Dynamics, you get something not nearly as exciting as you were probably expecting.
[ Lockheed Martin ]
Philippines Flying Labs has teamed up with local clinics and public health professionals in Tawi-Tawi to enable demand-driven drone deliveries.
[ WeRobotics ]
Speaker John Enright, Principal Engineer, Amazon Robotics, tells the story of developing precision autonomy on Proteus, the new cost-effective autonomous mobile robot designed to work safely and efficiently alongside humans in shared, collaborative spaces.
[ Amazon Robotics ]
In this second episode of #MeetAGoogleResearcher, Drew Calcagno speaks with Kanishka Rao of Google Research and Daniel Ho of Everyday Robots, researchers who helped combine the PaLM-SayCan robotics algorithm with the advanced capabilities of a helper robot.
[ Google Research ]
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. For two decades after launch, the spacecraft were planetary explorers, giving us up-close views of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Now, as they reach distances far beyond the hopes of their original designers, the aging spacecraft challenge their team in new ways, requiring creative solutions to keep them operating and sending back science data from the space between the stars. As we celebrate the 45th anniversary of these epic explorers, join Voyager deputy project scientist Linda Spilker and propulsion engineer Todd Barber for a live Q&A.
[ JPL ]
Evan Ackerman is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.
