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ARMOR: Egocentric Perception for Humanoid Robot Collision Avoidance and Motion Planning. arxiv.org/abs/2412.00396

[RO] ARMOR: Egocentric Perception for Humanoid Robot Collision Avoidance and Motion Planning D Kim, M Srouji, C Chen, J Zhang [CMU & Apple] (2024) arxiv.org/abs/2412.00396

Say goodbye to dead batteries!⚡️ New tech being developed at CMU School of Computer Science uses your body to charge wearable gadgets. The Future Interfaces Group is exploring Power-over-Skin technology that could power small gadgets by sucking electricity through your skin. fastcompany.com/91233975/carne…

Occlusion will be a big challenge for robots operating in dense, obstacle rich environments common in manufacturing. Using low-res cameras mounted on limbs you can train a motion policy to outperform high-res head mounted or externally mounted cameras for obstacle avoidance.

🚨 Apple joins the robotics race! Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Apple have developed a robot collision avoidance system. They called it ARMOR and they implemented it on the Fourier GR-1 robot. What is ARMOR? 👘 ARMOR is a system that helps humanoid robots "see"

How can humanoid robots move smarter in crowded spaces? 🦾 Meet ARMOR —an egocentric perception system developed by Daehwa Kim, Mario Srouji, Chen Chen, and Jian Zhang. Using our XIAO ESP32S3, SparkFun Electronics ToF sensors, NVIDIA Jetson NX & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, it delivers

🚀 New Research on Human-Robot Interaction! 🤖 How can humanoid robots communicate beyond words? Our framework, EMOTION, leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to dynamically generate expressive gestures, enhancing non-verbal communication in robots. 🤯 Our experiments show

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Good Old-Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000-Year “Data Gap” in Robotics. Science Robotics Editorial: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…