Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.com"Arm on tracks" refers to a variant of the robotic arm robot form factor in which the position of attachment of the robotic arm can also be moved around linearly or with more degrees of freedom.
E.g.:
- Everyday Robots robot
- Transcendence (2014) robots
10 TINY Micro Robots and Nano Drones by JUST AMAZING (2020)
Source. - cyborg beetle from Hirotaka Sato
- RoboBee
Bibliography:
- paywall: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abq8184 A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots by Fuller, Yu and Talwekar from the University of Washington, more precisely the Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab. TODO vs RoboFly also from Washington?
- robotics.cs.rutgers.edu/pracsys/ Bekrys lab at Rutgers University
Looks cool. That's what 1k USD gets you.
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Singapore's Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects by Vice Media (2018)
Source. By Dr. Hirotaka Sato from Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
It is a bit rough, but kind of works. Flight control is only left or right though, they don't stimulate the wings directly.
Homepage: www.nvidia.com/en-gb/omniverse/
Not going to lie, this is some cool shit, robot simulation and 3D visualization in the browser.
- learn-real.eu
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fo5NhnyR8I OpenAI realistic robot hand
Looks cool! Ciro Santilli loves simulations!
TRI means Toyota Research Institute BTW.
The Robotics team at TRI is working hard to close the gap between simulation and reality. For manipulation, one important piece is accurate simulation of rigid-body contact.