Video Friday: Meet Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2
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Introducing Gemini Robotics 2—the intelligence layer powering the next generation of truly adaptable robots. As it takes its first literal steps, this major advance unlocks intelligent whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multirobot collaboration.
[ Google DeepMind ]
THE ROADMAP! NOOOOO!
[ Agility ]
Videos like this always make me wonder how repairable these robots are. Very, I would hope.
[ Unitree ]
Humans routinely communicate through abstractions of their bodies, including shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. Here, we present a robotic system capable of dynamic shadow expression using a 21-degrees-of-freedom dexterous hand with compliant soft skin and a learned shadow self-model.
[ General Robotics Lab ]
Human-to-quadruped motion transfer is an odd concept, but I’m here for it.
[ Disney Research ]
Meet Stretch 4.0 —t he one-armed, three-wheeled robot that can navigate your home safely. Would you rather a humanoid robot or Stretch?
[ Hello Robot ]
And now, this, for some reason.
[ PNDbotics ]
I’m not sure we’re allowed to be impressed if you resize a badminton court to accommodate your robot.
[ PHYBOT ]
Golden eagles care not for drones .
[ Team BlackSheep ]
University of Southern California researchers work with NASA and others to train robot dogs for planetary exploration on Mars, the moon, and beyond!
[ Research in Applied Decisions: RAD Lab ]
Thanks, Cristina!
WABOT-1 was arguably the birth of the humanoid robot in Japan. We’ve come a long way, and it’s good to be reminded where we started.
[ Takanishi Lab ]
If only this video was at 1x instead of 5x we could have had 15 hours of Memo folding laundry.
[ Sunday Robotics ]
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