Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. Boston Dynamics posted some awesome new videos this week; the first shows Atlas jogging! Jogging involves a flight phase, which means that the robot is spending time completely airborne during each gait cycle. It takes much more energy to do this relative to walking, which is more like a continuous controlled fall forward. Atlas even looks kind of humanlike as it jogs: You could almost almost!
It sort of looks to me like Atlas is a little bit on the prancy side, and could use more push-off in the toes to better match a natural human jogging gait. The second video from BD this week shows SpotMini doing some extended autonomous navigation through a premapped area:.
We were there, and wrote a massive article over on our Cars That Think blog, but here are a few highlights from the event. If you can afford a presumably massive up-front investment, Ocado makes some impressively dense robotic warehouses:. Fun fact: Each day, the Andover robot fleet about 1, robots travels a distance that equates to 4. Where can ANYmal go? Look at that, a legged robot showing how it can actually do useful applications, today.
Latest innovation of Delft Dynamics : the Releasable Drone concept! Combining the advantage of an unlimited flight endurance of a powered cable drone, with the freedom in airspace of a free flying drone.
In this video the concept is explained and demonstrated with a DroneCatcher system. In this way, the DroneCatcher can be immediately deployed after detection of an unwanted drone. This video takes you through some of the ways in which you can teach Misty to do things. And one more Misty video about how Misty was designed to be interactive and compelling for users.
