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#Personal Robot | Applications

#Universal Robots | Robot arm

#Trossen Robotics | Pi Zero (π0) | Open-source vision-language-action model | Designed for general robotic control | Zero-shot learning | Dexterous manipulation | Aloha Kit | Single policy capable of controlling multiple types of robots without retraining | Generalist robotic learning | Pi Zero was trained on diverse robots | Pi Zero was transferred seamlessly to bimanual Aloha platform | Pi Zero executed actions in a zero-shot setting without additional fine-tuning | Pi Zero run on standard computational resources | Hardware: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12950HX | NVIDIA RTX A4500 16G | RAM 64G | OS: Ubuntu 22.04 | Dependencies: PyTorch, CUDA, Docker | PaliGemma | Pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) | PaliGemma allows Pi Zero to understand scenes and follow natural language instructions | Image Encoding: Vision Transformer (ViT) to process robot camera feeds | Text Encoding: Converts natural language commands into numerical representation | Fusion: Aligns image features and text embeddings, helping model determine which objects are relevant to task | Pi Zero learns smooth motion trajectories using Flow Matching | Pi Zero learns a velocity field to model how actions should evolve over time | Pi Zero generates entire sequences of movement | Pi Zero predicts multiple future actions in one go | Pi Zero executes actions in chunks | ROS Robot Arms | Aloha Solo package | Intel RealSense cameras | Compact tripod mount | Tripod overhead camera | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

#Control Bionics | Speech generating devices and AAC accessories to complex communication and physical needs | Damaged muscles emit small electrical signals for reliably control basic computer functions | Augmentative communication | NeuroNode: wireless, wearable sensor giving user ability to access technology by EMG or spatial movements

#Boston Dynamics | Spot robot | Radiation mapping autonomously | Gamma ray sensors | Personal dosimeters | Neutron detection | Alpha inspection with pancake sensors| Ability to withstand large amounts of radiation | Cabability to carry a variety of radiation detection payloads | Ongoing safe operation and eventual decommissioning of nuclear power plants | Machine learning algorithms | AI | Boston Dynamics

#UC Berkeley, CA, USA | Professor Trevor Darrell | Advancing machine intelligence | Methods for training vision models | Enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | Approaches to make VLMs smaller and more efficient while retaining accuracy | How LLMs can be used as visual reasoning coordinators, overseeing the use of multiple task-specific models | Utilizing visual intelligence at home while preserving privacy | Focused on advancements in object detection, semantic segmentation and feature extraction techniques | Researched advanced unsupervised learning techniques and adaptive models | Researched cross-modal methods that integrate various data types | Advised SafelyYou, Nexar, SuperAnnotate. Pinterest, Tyzx, IQ Engines, Koozoo, BotSquare/Flutter, MetaMind, Trendage, Center Stage, KiwiBot, WaveOne, DeepScale, Grabango | Co-founder and President of Prompt AI

#Ouster | High-resolution lidar sensors for long, mid, and short range applications | Smart infrastructure | Autonomous machines | Robotics applications | Digital lidar architecture | Digital device powered by a fully custom silicon CMOS chip

#Basf | Structural color | Chameleon like, color shifting materials | Stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message | Checking an arm band color to gauge muscle mass | Sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as one does laps | Elastic materials that when stretched can transform their color | Printed films revealing the imprint of objects | Structural color arising as a consequence of a material microscopic structure | Robotic skin that has a human like sense of touch | Devices for things like virtual augmented reality or medical training | University of Cambridge | The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at the Brigham | Women Hospital | National Science Foundation | MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation | Samsung | MIT ME MathWorks seed fund | MIT

#SICK | Traffic sensors | Safety radar sensors | Safety light beam sensors | Safety camera sensors | Pattern sensors | Non contact motion sensors | Magnetic cylinder sensors | Luminescence sensors | Inertial sensors | Inductive proximity sensors | Glare sensors | Fork sensors | Fluid sensors | Fiber optic sensors | Distance sensors | Contrast sensors | Color sensors | Capacitive and magnetic proximity sensors | Array sensors

#VARTA | Application Specific Batteries (ASB) | Energy Solutions

#Intuition Robotics | ElliQ | Aging companion | Answers phone | Reads emails | Plays music | Reminds to take medicines | Arranges cabs | Recalls appointments | Plays games | Accesses social media | Conducts on screen video chats | Suggests music, podcasts, or audiobooks | Recommends health activities

#RIKEN | Sumitomo Riko | ROBEAR | Nursing robot | Lifting a patient from a bed in a wheelchair | Supporting a patient who is standing but needs help

#Luvozo | SAM | Robot companion | Provides residents with frequent inspection and non medical care | Robot has a display and cameras that nurses can use to track

#Robotics & AI Institute | Collaborates with Boston Dynamics | Developed jointly Reinforcement Learning Researcher Kit for Spot quadruped robot | Developing sim-to-real for mobility | Transferring simulation results to real robotic hardware | Bridging sim-to-reality gap | Training policies generating a variety of agile behavior on physical hardware | Trying to achieve novel, robust, and practical locomotion behavior | Improving whole body loco-manipulation | Developing robot capability to manipulate objects and fixtures, such as doors and levers, in conjunction with locomotion significantly enhancing its utility | Exploring new policies to improve robustness in scenarios | Exploring full-body contact strategies | Exploring high-performance, whole-body locomotion and tasks that require full-body contact strategies, such as dynamic running and full-body manipulation of heavy objects, necessitating close coordination between arms and legs | Aiming to utilize reinforcement learning to generate behavior during complex contact events without imposing strict requirements | Develop technology that enables future generations of intelligent machines | Streamlining processes for robots to achieve new skills | Developing perception, situational understanding, reasoning, cognitive functions underpinning robot abilities and combining them with advances in their physical capabilities | Conducting research in four core areas: cognitive AI, athletic AI, organic hardware design, and ethics related to robotics

#Acapela Group | AvatarMind | iPal

#Moin | Care O Bot 4

#Blue Frog Robotics | Buddy

#Lovot | Lovot Robot

#Miko | Miko Robot

#Digital Dreams Lab | Anki

#Amazon | Astro Robot

#Trexo Robotics | Robotic brace | Helping children with cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, muscular dystrophy, stroke, brain injury, hemi and paraplegia, spinal cord injury, Rett syndrome, neuromuscular conditions

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Misa | English, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin

#Aibo | Robotic puppy

#Energize Lab | Eilik

#Embodied | Moxie Robot

#Hey Winky | Winky

#Misty Robotics | Misty Robot

#Aido Robot | Aido Robot

#Fourier | GRx humanoid robot series | GR-2 stands 175 cm (68.9 in.) tall and weighs 63 kg (139 lb.) | GR-2 offers 53 degrees of freedom and single-arm load capacity of 3 kg (6.6 lb.) | Fourier humanoid has detachable battery | Concealed wires and more compact packaging | Hands with 12 degrees of freedom | Array-type tactile sensors that sense force and can identify object shapes and materials |Fourier Smart Actuators (FSA) | Software development kit (SDK)

#IDS | Industrial image processing | 3D cameras | Digital twins can distinguish color | Higher reproducible Z-accuracy | Stereo cameras: 240 mm, 455 mm | RGB sensor | Distinguishing colored objects | Improved pattern contrast on objects at long distances | Z accuracy: 0.1 mm at 1 m object distance | SDK | AI based image processing web service | AI based image analysis

#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming | Set and adjust positions and tasks with ease | Drag Teaching | Moving the cobot to any position, and it will memorize it instantly | JAKA APP | Teaching the robot | Remote Monitoring | Monitor robot tasks and set alerts

#MassRobotics | Ori | Ikea | Boston Seaport District | Amazon | Google | Mitsubishi Electric | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT | Cybernetix Ventures

#IEEE | RAS

#Parvalux | Electric motors | Geared Motors for Robotic Solutions

#OpenAI | Whisper | Open source deep learning model for speech recognition | Transcribing audio in several languages | Automatic speech recognition (ASR) without the privacy concerns | Content creating | Adding AI to everyday workflows

#Harmonic Drive | Rotary Actuator | Integrated Actuator | Supermini Actuator | Integrated servo drive | Mini actuator with an integrated servo drive | Brushless actuators with large hollow bore | Precision servo actuators | Gearheads | Gear component sets

#Anybotics | Manipulation payload | Autonomous maintenance tasks | Powerful and torque-controlled arm | Flexible sensor integration | Open software architecture | Access to low-level joint control for developers | System equipped with NVIDIA Jetson GPU | Onboard execution of AI models and real-time perception algorithms | Integrated platform enables advanced mobile manipulation, such as agile tool use, object handling, and real-time interaction in unstructured environments | Human–robot collaboration | Heavy payload handling | Complex tasks | Intelligent, autonomous legged robotics | Legged robotics research package | Collaboration with Duatic, an ETH Zurich spin-off | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection

#Microchip Technology | Tactile Twist on Modern Touch Displays | Reduces Bill of Materials (BoM) | Operates on standard sensor patterns | Eliminates need for openings in the front panel | Configurable knob position, size and number of detents (clicks) | Optional push function | Up to four knob instances | Mount capacitive rotary encoders, also called rotary knobs, over a touch panel | The knob is a passive mechanical element, specifically designed to include at least one conductive pad | The maXTouch KoD touchscreen

#Barrett Technology | Therapy robot designed for intensive motor learning practice and repetitions

#Toyota | Columbia Engineering | MIT | Kitchen-based tasks | Robots figuring out on their own how to grab, hold and manipulate different types of items | Knife evenly putting spread on slice of bread | Using spatula to flip pancake | Using potato peeler to peel potatoes | Rolling out dough into pizza base, then spoon sauce onto base and spread it around with spoon | Large Behavior Model (LBM) | Future robot owners and operators to rapidly teach their bots new tasks as necessary

#Sanctuary AI | Pheonix humanoid robot | General-purpose humanoid robot | Form factor similar to an average-sized human | Carbon AI control system | Human-like intelligence | Robotic hand | Hand-eye coordination of object manipulation tasks | Haptic technology that mimics the sense of touch | AI model training | General-purpose robotics

#HEBI Robotics | Scope desktop app | Monitoring and configuration platform | Configure, command, and update HEBI modules on network

#Langchain | Applications that can reason

#IDS | Pick and place robots

#Robotnik | Mobile manipulators

#Duatic | Rugged, weatherproof robotic arm | Actuator architecture | Quasi-direct, water-resistant, actively-cooled drive modules with integrated electronics | Maximum Payload: 12 kg | Continuous Payload: 6 kg | Reachability: 1.0 m | Total Weight: 9.2 kg | End Effector Speed: 10 m/s | Pose Repeatability:< 1 mm | Degrees of Freedom: 6 | Power Input: 48 V | Protection: IP66 | Joint Torque Accuracy (all): ± 0.5 Nm

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Sentius self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys

#Arimation Robotics | Custom automation solutions | Mecademic Robotics

#Mecademic Robotics | Six-axis industrial robot arm | Robot arms built entirely from aluminum | Control by Python | SCARA robot achieves position repeatability of 0.005 mm, enabling to automate even the most intricate tasks and elevate product quality | Montreal | Canada | Maxon micromotors | Microautomation solutions | Microautomation cell | Automated medical device assembly process

#picknik.ai | Hybrid autonomy for teleoperation of robotic arms

#Angsa Robotics | Mobile robots automating rubbish collection

#Figure.ai | General purpose humanoid | Robots to handle general tasks | Enabling robots to learn and interact with environment | Humanoids designed to caring for elderly or even cooking meals | Focusing primarily on industrial warehouse applications to start

#Kitchen Robotics | Beastro | Dark kitchen sector

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Stereotaxis | Robotic Magnetic Navigation (RMN) System | Utilizing smaller magnets that rotate along their center of mass | System is significantly smaller than traditional ones | Providing physicians and nurses with greater access to patient during procedure | Iincreasing space in labs for enhanced work environment | Magnets are held on flexible and rugged robotic arms | Allowung wider x-ray angulation

#Apptronik | Human centered robotic systems | Robotics systems operating in close proximity to humans | Astra upper body humanoid robot | Dreamer upper body humanoid developed by MEKA for UT Austin HCRL

#Agility Robotics | Digit | Digit Robot | 175 cm (5’9’’) | <65kg (14l lbs) | Can carry up to 16 kg (35 lb) | Works 16 out of 24 hours | Autonomous Charging | Connects itself to its docking station | Walks forward, backward, side to side | Turns in place | Crouching walk | Up and down inclines | Across unstructured terrain

#Hebi Robotics | Modular robots

#Medrobotics | Surgical robots

#phd | Grippers | Flexion