As a late report of #ICRA #ICRA2023, here are the robots I loved the most there:

- @1x_tech’s Eve: the most potent #humanoid

- Engineered Arts Ltd's Ameca: the most expressive, the most vibrant engagement #HRI

- Pollen Robotics's Reachy: cheap, capable and fun #humanoidrobot

- @palrobotics's Tiago Pro: a nicer version of the very capable Tiago

Claire chatted to Prof. Elena De Momi from the Polytechnic University of Milan about surgical robotics, artificial intelligence, and the ICRA robotics conference in London: https://robottalk.org/2023/05/26/episode-50-elena-de-momi/ #ICRA2023 #Surgery #AI
Episode 50 – Elena De Momi - Robot Talk

Claire chatted to Elena De Momi from the Polytechnic University of Milan all about surgical robotics, artificial intelligence, and the upcoming ICRA robotics conference in London.

Robot Talk - The podcast exploring the exciting world of robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines.

# A fast two-stage approach for multi-goal path planning in a fruit tree

How do you efficiently plan a path for a drone around a fruit tree, and then plan its movements so it reaches into the tree to reach the fruit with a robotic arm? In what order do you do that?

It's my contribution to the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation! #ICRA2023

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10160281

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A fast two-stage approach for multi-goal path planning in a fruit tree

We consider the problem of planning the motion of a drone equipped with a robotic arm, tasked with bringing its end-effector up to many (150+) targets in a fruit tree; to inspect every piece of fruit, for example. The task is complicated by the intersection of a version of Neighborhood TSP (to find an optimal order and a pose to visit every target), and a robotic motion-planning problem through a planning space that features numerous cavities and narrow passages that confuse common techniques. In this contribution, we present a framework that decomposes the problem into two stages: planning approach paths for every target, and quickly planning between the start points of those approach paths. Then, we compare our approach by simulation to a more straightforward method based on multiquery planning, showing that our approach outperforms it in both time and solution cost.

Ahh!!! Thrilled for MIRRORLab students Terran Mott, Rafael Sousa Silva, Alexa Bejarano, Mark Higger, and Ruchen (Puck) Wen for winning the #ICRA2023 Roboethics competition!!!

This week in Weekly Robotics ICRA 2023 special: Boston Dynamics AI Institute, O3DE simulation with ROS 2, robotic avatars at the exhibition floor, and more!

https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-250

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ICRA 2023 Special - Weekly Robotics #250

This week in Weekly Robotics ICRA 2023 special: Boston Dynamics AI Institute, O3DE simulation with ROS 2, robotic avatars at the exhibition floor, and more!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!
Clémentin Boittiaux presenting the Homography-Based Loss at #ICRA2023 !! 👏👏

Had a great time at the ICRA Robots and Automation conference in London this week!

https://www.icra2023.org/

Thanks to everyone who very kindly hosted me. Highlights included Jasia Reichardt's keynote 'In Praise of Strangeness': https://www.icra2023.org/plenary-keynote-sessions

And the performance by the legend that is Stelarc: https://www.icra2023.org/art-robotics-stelarc

#icra2023 #stelarc #robot #automation #london

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I'm hosting sessions at ICRA 2023 today (the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, a huge global robotics conference), and this morning I sat on stage next to Hiroshi Ishiguru as his “copy of himself” - the robot Geminoid (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=AwMfNq1x_kQ 1:30min in) GAVE A TALK, with incredibly realistic facial expressions and hand gestures. My mind is still reeling. Not sure what we’d do with such things, but it’s incredibly impressive. #ICRA2023
Robots That Look like Humans | the Fantastic Robots of Hiroshi Ishiguro | Erica, Geminoid & Telenoid

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Check it out! @Ken_Goldberg at #ICRA2023 - and a finalist for the Outstanding Automation Paper award!
https://bcnm.berkeley.edu/news-research/5602/ken-goldberg-at-icra-2023
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023 - News/Research - Berkeley Center for New Media

Autonomous Robots Lab open sources Aerial Gym. A new simulator for aerial robots built on top of Nvidia's Isaac Gym.

https://github.com/ntnu-arl/aerial_gym_simulator

#robotics #research #ICRA2023

GitHub - ntnu-arl/aerial_gym_simulator: This repository contains code for Aerial Gym - IsaacGym Simulator for Aerial Robots

This repository contains code for Aerial Gym - IsaacGym Simulator for Aerial Robots - GitHub - ntnu-arl/aerial_gym_simulator: This repository contains code for Aerial Gym - IsaacGym Simulator for...

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