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Aquanaut

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  Aquanaut Aquanaut is an unmanned underwater vehicle that can transform itself from a nimble submarine designed for long-distance cruising into a half-humanoid robot capable of carrying out complex manipulation tasks. It can inspect subsea oil and gas infrastructure, operate valves, and use tools. Houston Mechatronics was started by former NASA roboticists who worked on advanced technologies used in complex space missions. Founders Matt Ondler, Reg Berka, and Nic Radford want to bring their robotics expertise to industries that include energy, offshore oil and gas, defense, and seabed mining. They have raised more than US $23 million in venture capital since starting HMI in 2014. The company, based in Houston, Texas, is developing an all-electric underwater transforming vehicle called Aquanaut . It combines the capabilities of both an underwater autonomous vehicle, or AUV, and a remotely operated underwater vehicle, or ROV. When in AUV mode, it can travel long distances of up to ...
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ROBOT HRP-5P

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  ROBOT HRP-5P HRP-5P is an advanced humanoid capable of using power tools and handling large objects like drywall sheets. It's the latest model in the HRP series of Japanese humanoids, and is designed as an R&D platform umio Kanehiro (Leader), Kenji Kaneko (Chief Senior Researcher), Takeshi Sakaguchi (Senior Researcher), and others of the Humanoid Research Group, the Intelligent Systems Research Institute (Director: Yoshihiro Kawai), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji Chubachi), have developed a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, intended to autonomously perform heavy labor or work in hazardous environments. As a 182 cm, 101 kg humanoid robot, HRP-5P was built on HRP series technologies by incorporating new hardware technologies. Within the series, it has unsurpassed physical capabilities. Its robot intelligence comprises environmental measurement and object recognition, full-body motion planning and control, task descri...
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Sophia

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    Sophia : Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot, Sophia, personifies our dreams for the future of AI. As a unique combination of science, engineering, and artistry, Sophia is simultaneously a human-crafted science fiction character depicting the future of AI and robotics, and a platform for advanced robotics and AI research. The character of Sophia captures the imagination of global audiences. She is the world’s first robot citizen and the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme. Sophia is now a household name, with appearances on the Tonight Show and Good Morning Britain, in addition to speaking at hundreds of conferences around the world Sophia's Artificial Intelligence Sophia AI combines cutting-edge work in symbolic AI, neural networks, expert systems, machine perception, conversational natural language processing, adaptive motor control and cognitive architecture among others. As my underlying AI components can be combin...
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Spot robot

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   The "Spot" robot, previously called "SpotMini", is is a four-legged dog-like robot developed by Boston Dynamics. The nimble robot is 83 centimeters tall and is designed for a variety of search, inspection and delivery tasks. It can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain with unprecedented ease, yet it is small enough to use indoors. It is built to be a rugged (IP54 for dust and wet protection) and customizable platform. Spot can go where wheeled robots cannot, while carrying payloads with endurance far beyond aerial drones. The maximal speed is 1.6 m/s with a runtime of 90 minutes and the batteries are swappable. Spot uses five stereo cameras (360 degrees vision) to avoid obstacles and people as it moves through dynamic work sites. It is unfortunately not possible to use the Spot SDK together with Webots. This is because this SDK doesn't include all the low level motion control functionalities which are necessary to control the simulated model. Re-writing th...
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Atlas

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  Atlas: The world’s most dynamic humanoid robot, Atlas is a research platform designed to push the limits of whole-body mobility. Atlas’s advanced control system and state-of-the-art hardware give the robot the power and balance to demonstrate human-level agility. Atlas is designed to operate both outdoors and inside buildings and has whole-body dynamic balancing. Atlas is able to sense obstacles and negotiate rough terrain autonomously or via teleoperation. The robot is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Many humanoid applications can be decomposed into a two stage control problem: a behaviour level controller that outputs high level commands and a low level controller that is responsible for generating joint commands. In order to fully utilize the workspace and be robust to external perturbations, the low level controller has to take full body kinematics and dynamics into consideration.  At 5’9” (1.75 m) and 180 lbs (82 kg), the new ATLAS is...
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