Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
…build everything from aircraft wings to construction site installations. ETH Zurich researchers Andrea Perissinotto, Oliver Harley, and Matthias Leschok applied their expertise in robotics, engineering, and fabrication to found SAEKI in 2021. During their studies and industry collaborations, the trio said they identified the need to scale up additive manufacturing (AM) processes for large-scale applications such as bespoke concrete formwork. “Currently, to develop a lightweight carbon-fiber element or to build a topologically optimized concrete floor slab, buyers would have to wait months and spend vast sums of money to receive a first sample and only then build a prototype, let…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.47
…Univ.; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Switzerland: Eth Zurich U.S. Universities (22) Alabama (2): Auburn Univ.; Univ. of Alabama California (2): UC Berkeley; California Polytechnic State Univ. (Cal Poly) Colorado: Colorado State Univ. Florida (2): Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ.; Univ. of Florida Georgia: Kennesaw State Univ. Hawaii: Univ. of Hawaii Indiana (2): Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. (IUPUI).; Purdue Univ. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Michigan (3) Michigan State Univ.; Western Michigan Univ.; Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn New York (2): Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); U.S. Military Academy (West Point) North Carolina: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pennsylvania:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
…on the GPU to reduce training time, Andrews wrote. “ETH Zurich/Swiss Mile created a wheeled version of ANYbotics' ANYmal and trained a new locomotion policy in Gym,” he said. “We had a standalone version for reinforcement learning, but it's now available as part of Isaac Sim.” Omnigraph is a visual programming and scripting environment intended to simply application development and debugging. “Connecting nodes with different inputs and outputs to drive compute tasks translates well to robotics applications, which already tend to be modular,” noted Andrews. “As with passing ROS [Robot Operating System] nodes, this works well with visual programming.” Isaac…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.39
…CERBERUS is a collaboration between University of Nevada, Reno; ETH Zurich; Sierra Nevada Corp., the University of California, Berkeley; Flyability; the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); and the University of Oxford. “Team CERBERUS draws conceptual inspiration from the mythological Cerberus, the three-headed dog protecting the underworld,” said the team in its mission statement. “From a robotics standpoint, we are inspired from the potential of combining two very different modalities of locomotion, namely walking and flying, while simultaneously addressing in a unified manner the perception and navigation challenges.” “In the underground environment, there are so many challenges from lighting…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
…robot grippers and Omniverse for warehouse digital twins, while ETH Zurich is training a wheeled quadruped robot, said Andrews. Fraunhofer is developing advanced AMRs using the physically accurate and full-fidelity visualization features of Isaac Sim. Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots. Flexiv is using Isaac Replicator for synthetic data generation to train AI models. While training robots is important, simulation is playing a critical role in training the human operators to work with and program robots, said NVIDIA. Ready Robotics is teaching how to program industrial robots with Isaac…