Congratulations to NimbRo! The winners of the ANA AVATAR XPRIZE Finals this weekend!
ROBOTIS had the pleasure of hosting an exhibit at the XPRIZE finals in Long Beach, CA this weekend, and we had a great time chatting with everybody and seeing the competition!
Second Place was awarded to Pollen Robotics!
Pollen Robotic’s Reachy open source robotics platform put up an amazing show utilizing ROBOTIS’ very own DYNAMIXEL actuators!
With Team Northeastern Taking Third Place!
Now’s your chance to win a robotics competition of your own! The ROBOTIS Community Forum is currently hosting the DYNAMIXEL MINATURE MACHINES MASHUP contest!
Enter your minature DYNAMXEL robot today for your chance to win!
The Robotics Roundup is a weekly newspost going over some of the most exciting developments in robotics over the past week.
In today’s edition we have:
- Amazon testing robots to transport oversized items in fulfillment centers
- Lidar Sensors Jeopardize Passenger Safety in Autonomous Cars
- Meet ABBy, the robot that builds log houses
- Mini Pupper 2 makes a bid to be your new hackable robo-dog pal
- Tiny solid-state LiDAR device can 3D-map a full 180-degree field of view
Amazon testing robots to transport oversized items in fulfillment centers
Amazon is continuing it’s foray into the robotics space by developing an autonomous platform to move unwieldy items that can’t be transported by their existing conveyor systems.
Lidar Sensors Jeopardize Passenger Safety in Autonomous Cars
Researchers from the University of Florida, the University of Michigan, and the University of Electro-Communications in Japan have disclosed a vulnerability that they have discovered in current generation LIDAR sensors.
Meet ABBy, the robot that builds log houses
Log cabins and robotics may seem like two things that wouldn’t have much overlap, but it turns out that having a log shaping robot provides an amazing tool for the designers and builders of traditional log cabins.
Mini Pupper 2 makes a bid to be your new hackable robo-dog pal
The original Mini Pupper was hailed as an excellent low cost platform for four legged robotics research (and playtime.) Now the Mini Pupper 2 aims to improve upon that formula with an increased payload, and extended accessory compatibility.
Tiny solid-state LiDAR device can 3D-map a full 180-degree field of view
Researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology have developed a compact lidar unit that leverages nanoscale lenses to precisely diffuse a laser beam into thousands of points, enabling them to simultaneously map a 120° field of view in a single snapshot.