Weekly Robotics #322

Issue 322

With summer in full swing over here, there is a 45% chance I'll take the next two weeks off from Weekly Robotics, so if you don't see us in your inbox in the coming weeks, you'll know that I'm somewhere out there relaxing.

Shoggoth Mini

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Shoggoth Mini is a cute tentacle robot by Matthieu Le Cauchois that was inspired by this paper on SpiRobs. The robot consists of a cable-driven tentacle and a stereo camera. High-level control is performed by GPT-4o, while low-level control policies are implemented through Reinforcement Learning. If you’d like to build your own, check-out this repository.

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Everything I Know About ROS Interfaces: Explainer Video

Legendary David Lu!! created an excellent 38-minute-long video, in which he shares everything about ROS interfaces (messages, services, actions). I highly recommend it, even for seasoned ROS developers.

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War Always Changes

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This article describes the history of drone use in conflicts and how this technology is used in abundance in recent wars; good food for thought.

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IoT-For-Beginners: 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All!

Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about IoT basics. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to ‘stick’.

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This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

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This project is one way to scientifically determine the best knife in existence. The result of this experiment is this database. As someone who has been thinking about sourcing a proper chef’s knife for a long time, I appreciate the effort put into this work.

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An Open-Concept 3D Printer Using Cantilever Arms

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The other day, I came across this compact 3D-printer design and thought it was kind of neat! This work took me back to this printer design, which printed upside-down, was foldable, and fit in a filament box.

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