Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.82
Today's telepresence technologies and teleoperation of remote systems could be stepping stones on the way to robotic avatars that could help with disaster relief, healthcare, space exploration, and more. That's the goal of the $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition, which announced semifinalist teams earlier this month. Sponsored by All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest airline, the Avatar XPRIZE is a four-year global competition focused on crowdsourcing the development of systems to deploy a human user's senses, actions, and presence to a remote location in real time. The avatars must be able to execute a set of tasks across real-world…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.71
…on a leash would completely defeat their purpose. Remote teleoperation remains a key component to making quadruped robots both economically and operationally viable, and the ability to monitor and control these robots in real time is critical for their success. At the same time, one human must be able to manage multiple robots in order to be cost effective. By using a robot operations platform to reduce the overall human to robot ratio, businesses can ramp up their operations and establish positive unit economics. Interested in learning what Formant can do for your 4-legged fleet? Check out our Formant +…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.58
…robot command-center software,” recalled Linnell. “We also talk about teleoperation and observation.” “We're building tooling on top of Formant to suit specific applications and workloads,” he said. “We think of ourselves more as an automation accelerant rather than a shrink-wrapped solution.” In addition to its open architecture, Formant provides tools for workflows and autonomy, including data piping for authentication and user management. “People usually come to us with different requirements—the operations person and billing will use different parts of our product,” said Linnell. “We're proud of our interfaces and workflows. They're battle-tested and look good from a design sensibility, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.03
…go,” Gerkey said. “At the highest level is direct teleoperation for troubleshooting.” “On top of that, we built a traffic manager, with the ability to delegate tasks, depending on the fleet's ability to expose data,” he added. “Then we can get to more efficient use of the shared space. We'll roll out actual deployments in healthcare settings next year.” Interoperability isn't just about fleets speaking with planning software or human operators; robots must also communicate with things like smoke alarms, Gerkey noted. “If a fire alarm goes off, we need robots to go to the sides of hallways,” he said.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.17
…collection efficiency, demonstrating superior results in comparison with conventional teleoperation systems, NVIDIA asserted. “MimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning Using Human Demonstrations:” MimicGen automatically generates large-scale robot training datasets by adapting a small number of human demonstrations to various contexts. Using around 200 human demonstrations, it created over 50,000 diverse task scenarios, enabling effective training of robot agents for high-precision and long-horizon tasks. “M2T2: Multi-Task Masked Transformer for Object-Centric Pick-and-Place:” This paper covers how a transformer model can pick up and place arbitrary objects in cluttered scenes with zero-shot sim2real transfer, outperforming task-specific systems by up to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.00
…an emergency situation, they can be controlled remotely through teleoperation. PIT and xBridge host Future Travel Experience conference Vijay said Ottonomy has a very active engagement with PIT through xBridge. “We ran the robots last year, and now we are working with them to unlock some other use cases within the airport.” He added xBridge helps Ottonomy explore potential applications by bringing together different companies. “There's so many possibilities there, and it's difficult to do all by ourselves,” he said. One scenario xBridge helped Ottonomy test out was mounting a beer dispenser from Cooler Keg and credit card reader on…