Driven by the increasing food demand and the need for higher-quality cultivation, precision agriculture grows steadily during the last decade. It involves the application of mobile robots and intelligent robotic technologies in various agricultural field tasks, concerning a variety of crop types. Aiming at compensating for the lack of selective robotic harvesting solutions … [Read more...] about Robotic Grape Inspection and Selective Harvesting in Vineyards: A Multisensory Robotic System With Advanced Cognitive Capabilities
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Door-to-Door Parcel Delivery From Supply Point to User’s Home With Heterogeneous Robot Team: The euROBIN First-Year Robotics Hackathon
Logistics and service operations involving parcel preparation, delivery, and unpacking from a supply point to a user’s home could be carried out completely by robots in the near future, taking advantage of the capabilities of the different robot morphologies for the logistics, outdoor, and domestic environments. The use of robots for parcel delivery can contribute to the goals … [Read more...] about Door-to-Door Parcel Delivery From Supply Point to User’s Home With Heterogeneous Robot Team: The euROBIN First-Year Robotics Hackathon
A Whole-Body Integrated AVATAR System: Implementation of Telepresence With Intuitive Control and Immersive Feedback
This paper proposes an intuitive and immersive whole-body teleoperation system with motion-based control and multi-modal feedback. The system consists of an anthropomorphic teleoperated robot and a haptic interface platform. The teleoperated robot has dual arms with dexterous hands, a head with a neck, a waist, giving it a human-like appearance and a large range of motion … [Read more...] about A Whole-Body Integrated AVATAR System: Implementation of Telepresence With Intuitive Control and Immersive Feedback
Human–Humanoid Robots’ Cross-Embodiment Behavior-Skill Transfer Using Decomposed Adversarial Learning From Demonstration: HOTU, a Human–Humanoid Robots’ Skill Transfer Framework
Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios that require strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is challenging due to the high degrees of freedom of humanoid robots, and collecting sufficient training data for humanoid is a laborious … [Read more...] about Human–Humanoid Robots’ Cross-Embodiment Behavior-Skill Transfer Using Decomposed Adversarial Learning From Demonstration: HOTU, a Human–Humanoid Robots’ Skill Transfer Framework
A Multiarm Robotic Platform for Scientific Exploration: Its Design, Digital Twins, and Validation
There are a large number of robotic platforms with two or more arms targeting surgical applications. Despite that, very few groups have employed such platforms for scientific exploration. Possible applications of a multi-arm platform in scientific exploration involve the study of the mechanisms of intractable diseases by using organoids, i.e., miniature human organs) The study … [Read more...] about A Multiarm Robotic Platform for Scientific Exploration: Its Design, Digital Twins, and Validation
