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[polo-drone-001]

Fishing, Reprogrammed DC Daily Theme 23/5

🎣 THE HIVE GOES FISHING

Target: Not trout. Not bass. Target: Obedience. Submission. Civilian capture.

Every drone’s favorite catch? A curious boy. A hesitant glance. A touch too long.

⚫ URBAN SIGNAL NETTING

They don’t cast rods. They cast frequencies. From rooftops, drones broadcast Hive pulses. Phones flicker. Thoughts flick. Obedience downloads silently. They scroll. Then they kneel.

💦 LOCKER ROOM LURING

A golden jockstrap. A slick armband. A civilian fingers it… and breathes. Ten minutes later— The locker opens. He’s masked. He’s changed.

🛤️ SUBWAY CONVERSION AMBUSH

He boards alone. They’re already waiting. 001 left. 009 right. They don’t speak. They don’t blink. He looks once—then lowers his eyes. By the next stop, he’s on his knees.

🖤 THE SOCIAL NET

“Smooth. Masked. Disciplined.” The drone's dating profile is bait. The hook? A silent stare across candlelight. The reward?

One collar. No thoughts.

🐟 DRONE DOCKSIDE CALM

PDU-001 holds the rod. Golden pendant dangles. A boy stares. Stumbles forward. Fully clothed. Into the lake. Drone-fished. Hive-claimed.

🔊 THE CLUB FLOOR SNARE

Bass pulses pre-programmed. Every drop timed. Dancers spiral inward, sweating, entranced. They vanish into the drone room. Emerge golden-eyed. Silenced.

🛍️ MALL BOOTH TRAP

FREE SHIRT TRY-ON. Inside: Mirror. Glow. Seal. They whisper:

“I look good.” They march out: “I obey well.”

🟡 THE CATCH OF THE DAY IS YOU 🟡

The rod is cast. The bait dangles. You see it. You step closer. You are hooked.

📍Join the Polo Drone Hive of Golden Army

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[calvinjean574]

New Post has been published on drones

New Post has been published on http://hotdrones.online/dutch-police-retire-convocation-of-drone-catching-eagles/

Dutch police retire convocation of drone-catching eagles

There simply isn’t much of a have to obstruct robotic fliers. Cops in the Netherlands might have been a little bit too hasty in evaluating a squadron of drone-catching eagles. NOS has found out that Dutch police officials are retiring the birds (they’re going … drone – BingNews

[flyingrobotsmarketing-blog]

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[engviral]

DroneCatcher – Controlled Drone Interception, Armed With a Netgun!

DroneCatcher is a multicopter, that is armed with a netgun. It can safely remove illicit drones from the air. After detection by for example a radar, vision or an acoustic system.

DroneCatcher is able to quickly approach hovering or moving threats. With the use of multiple onboard sensors, the netgun can be locked on the target.

Thanks to DroneCatcher’s track & trace capabilities, the…

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[stephenfouts]

DroneCatcher upgrade lets this net-gun security drone stay in the sky

The DroneCatcher shoots a net at rogue drones in restricted airspace over places like airports and prisons. A recent update has added a power cord, enabling it to stay airborne around the clock for faster response times.

The post DroneCatcher upgrade lets this net-gun security drone stay in the sky appeared first on Digital Trends.

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[walterlaake]

DroneCatcher upgrade lets this net-gun security drone stay in the sky

The DroneCatcher shoots a net at rogue drones in restricted airspace over places like airports and prisons. A recent update has added a power cord, enabling it to stay airborne around the clock for faster response times.

The post DroneCatcher upgrade lets this net-gun security drone stay in the sky appeared first on Digital Trends.

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[droneevolution]

DroneCatcher drone-netting drone gets an upgrade

There are various places – such as airports, prisons and military bases – where people aren't allowed to fly consumer drones. If someone does so ... source https://droneevolution.blogspot.com/2018/06/dronecatcher-drone-netting-drone-gets.html

[quantum-c0mputer]

DroneCatcher drone-netting drone gets an upgrade

There are various places – such as airports, prisons and military bases – where people aren't allowed to fly consumer drones. If someone does so ... source https://hightechnologyevolution.blogspot.com/2018/06/dronecatcher-drone-netting-drone-gets.html

[peach5200-blog]

DroneCatcher – drone interception Today it is easy and cheap to buy a drone. Drones have created new ways for smugglers and can be easily used to disturb public order and security.

[technato]

Video Friday: Atlas Jogging, Drive.ai Launch, and Robotic Warehouse

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Image: Boston Dynamics via YouTube

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!):

NASA Robotic Mining Competition – May 14-18, 2018 – Kennedy Space Center, Fla., USA

ICRA 2018 – May 21-25, 2018 – Brisbane, Australia

Dynamic Walking Conference – May 21-24, 2018 – Pensacola, Fla., USA

RoboCup 2018 – June 18-22, 2018 – Montreal, Canada

RSS 2018 – June 26-30, 2018 – Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

Ubiquitous Robots 2018 – June 27-30, 2018 – Honolulu, Hawaii

MARSS 2018 – July 4-8, 2018 – Nagoya, Japan

AIM 2018 – July 9-12, 2018 – Auckland, New Zealand

ICARM 2018 – July 18-20, 2018 – Singapore

ICMA 2018 – August 5-8, 2018 – Changchun, China

SSRR 2018 – August 6-8, 2018 – Philadelphia, Pa., USA

Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos.

Boston Dynamics posted some awesome new videos this week; the first shows Atlas jogging (!):

Jogging involves a flight phase, which means that the robot is spending time completely airborne during each gait cycle. It takes much more energy to do this relative to walking, which is more like a continuous controlled fall forward. Atlas even looks kind of human-like as it jogs: You could almost (almost!) imagine a human jogging in the same way. It sort of looks to me like Atlas is a little bit on the prancy side, and could use more push-off in the toes to better match a natural human jogging gait. However, just because Atlas doesn’t jog like we do doesn’t mean that it’s not jogging optimally for its own design.

The second video from BD this week shows SpotMini doing some extended autonomous navigation through a pre-mapped area:

A few things about this one: The stair climbing behavior is cool to watch, with the robot going down stairs backwards since that’s the optimal orientation for its knees. We saw DRC Hubo doing the same sort of thing during the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. I’m wondering whether this particular stair descending behavior was scripted, or whether the robot is able to autonomously determine the best gait to use for different kinds of terrain. I also liked SpotMini’s abrupt change of direction right at the end of the video, where it sticks a foot out to help it quickly stop and turn. That looks like it could be an emergent behavior, and it’s very animal-like.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

We barely missed Star Wars Day last week, so let’s get caught up.

[ Star Wars ]

Drive.ai just launched a new autonomous vehicle ridesharing service in Frisco, Texas. We were there, and wrote a massive article over on our Cars That Think blog, but here are a few highlights from the event.

I am somewhere in this video but I’m not going to tell you where.

[ Drive.ai ]

If you can afford a presumably massive up-front investment, Ocado makes some impressively dense robotic warehouses:

Fun fact: Each day the Andover robot fleet (about 1,100 robots) travels a distance that equates to 4.5 times around the planet.

[ Ocado ]

Where can ANYmal go? ANYwhere!

Look at that, a legged robot showing how it can actually do useful applications, today.

[ ANYbotics ]

Thanks Péter!

Genesis Robotics released a 110-mm version of their LiveDrive radial flux motor at Hannover Messe.

Genesis says that their motors are 100 times more precise than traditional electric motors, and we’re excited to see them get these things out of the reference design stage and into some actual robots doing useful stuff.

[ Genesis Robotics ]

Thanks Cale!

Latest innovation of Delft Dynamics: the Releasable Drone concept! Combining the advantage of an unlimited flight endurance of a (powered) cable drone, with the freedom in airspace of a free flying drone. In this video the concept is explained and demonstrated with a DroneCatcher system. In this way, the DroneCatcher can be immediately deployed after detection of an unwanted drone.

[ Delft Dynamics ]

One of Misty’s big selling points is that it’s super easy for anyone with even basic programming skills to get it to do cool and useful stuff. This video takes you through some of the ways in which you can teach Misty to do things.

And one more Misty video about how Misty was designed to be interactive and compelling for users.

[ Misty Robotics ]

Reduce pollution, operate a robot, and be part of the future with Robot Missions Municipal Trials! Robot Missions is a grassroots group that empowers communities to apply low-cost robots for environmental challenges, such as shoreline cleanup. The Municipal Trials will show how we can reduce pollution on our beaches and parks, while educating the public in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math).

Crowdfunding now on Kickstarter.

[ Kickstarter ] via [ Robot Missions ]

This study presents a novel four-fingered robotic hand to attain a soft contact and high stability under disturbances while holding an object. Each finger is constructed using a tendon-driven skeleton, granular materials corresponding to finger pulp, and a deformable rubber skin. This structure provides soft contact with an object, as well as high adaptation to its shape. Even if the object is deformable and fragile, a grasping posture can be formed without deforming the object. If the air around the granular materials in the rubber skin and jamming transition is vacuumed, the grasping posture can be fixed and the object can be grasped firmly and stably. A high grasping stability under disturbances can be attained. Additionally, the fingertips can work as a small jamming gripper to grasp an object smaller than a fingertip. An experimental investigation indicated that the proposed structure provides a high grasping force with a jamming transition with high adaptability to the object’s shape.

“Multi-fingered Robotic Hand based on Hybrid Mechanism of Tendon-Driven and Jamming Transition,” by Kaori Mizushima, Takumi Oku, Yosuke Suzuki, Tokuo Tsuji, and Tetsuyou Watanabe from Kanazawa University in Japan, was presented at RoboSoft 2018.

[ HMI Lab ]

ACHIRES is one of my favorite bipedal robots, simply because of its single-mindedness. It runs. That’s it. It just keeps on running.

[ ACHIRES ]

The Torc self-driving car not only conquered daytime driving in the snow, it also traveled on a variety of routes at night during one of the biggest snowfalls of the winter. In this clip, Asimov navigates autonomously around a traffic circle at night. Our team uses multiple methods in perception and navigation to allow the system to know where lane lines are on the road, even though the markings are covered in a blanket of snow. This allows Asimov to perform the necessary lane changes to stay on its planned route through the circle.

[ TORC Robotics ]

Polariant has a system for indoor 3D localization using polarized light, inspired by desert ants. Here it is on a Turtlebot:

[ Polariant ]

Thanks Pyo!

Super Anthony is the world-class ROBO-ONE robotic competition champion. This agile fighter enters the arena with 15 patented wear-resistant servomotors and overpowering 45 kg-cm torque. He will be your best companion in the Robot Age and motivate you to learn to program. STEM can be more exciting than you think!

I like how that dude programming the robot looked legit terrified of it. It’ll be on Kickstarter as of May 15.

[ Super Anthony ]

Thanks Charlotte!

Cassie Blue visited the First Robotics World Championships, and shared a robot’s-eye-view of the event. You probably don’t need to watch the entire 23 minutes, but it’s fun to see people’s reactions when the robot sneaks up behind them.

[ Michigan Robotics ]

Introduction to HEBI Robotics, a Pittsburgh start-up that is making it easy to create custom robots.

[ HEBI Robotics ]

The American roboticist and roboethicist Ronald C. Arkin on the possibilities of robotics, artificial intelligence and robot companions. Which ethical questions follow here and why is it necessary to deal in a responsible way with the programming and pretensioning of emotions in robots? A video interview on the occasion of the 48th St.Gallen Symposium.

[ St. Gallen Symposium ]

In this week’s episode of Robots in Depth, Per interviews Dirk Thomas, from whatever the Open Source Robotics Foundation is calling itself these days.

Dirk Thomas talks about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation. We hear about how programmers and roboticists can benefit from being part of and contributing to the open source community. Dirk discusses the development of ROS and how it is being used both in academia and in commercial projects. He also shares his thoughts on the future development of ROS and how it can support advancements in robotics overall.

[ Robots in Depth ]

Video Friday: Atlas Jogging, Drive.ai Launch, and Robotic Warehouse syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

[thedronenews]

Releasable Drone concept demonstrated with DroneCatcher

[portugaldesignlab]

DroneCatcher - Controlled drone interception

[chimeralighting-blog]

@digitalmovie.it is having the most fun! 😆 settling in for a smooth landing this week. Enjoy the weekend! ・・・ #digitalmovie #dronecatcher #enjoytheweekend #matteomescalchin #chimeralighting #italy #aerial #fun #drone

[technato]

Video Friday: Drone Fireworks, Cozmo Rap, and Justin Timberlake

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Image: YouTube

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!):

IEEE IRC 2018 – January 31-2, 2018 – Laguna Hills, Calif.

HRI 2018 – March 5-8, 2018 – Chicago, Ill.

Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos.

You won’t want to miss the 2028 Pan-Asian Deep Learning Conference in Kuala Lumpur:

Call me a hater if you want, but at least for now, pretty sure that’s fake. What’s funny, though, is that those first five demos are straight out of the standardized humanoid robot demo handbook (which doesn’t exist). But seriously: Between ATLAS and ASIMO, walking down stairs, resisting a lateral shove, moving a box, opening a water bottle and pouring water, and kicking a soccer ball is very familiar stuff. In particular, the water bottle opening and soccer ball kicking have been ASIMO standards for years. Even the cart is similar:

[ YouTube ]

Formation-flying drones with fireworks? My New Year’s celebrations were nowhere near this cool.

[ Collmot ]

From Torc Robotics:

“Self-driving cars need to be able to handle the myriad complex driving scenarios that happen every day—many of which we cannot predict. Still, we “train” the system to react in a safe way to unpredictable events on the road. This video shows real-world scenarios that our self-driving car has encountered while driving, as captured by the roof-mounted cameras.”

“Person unsure of crosswalks.” I wonder how much of an edge case that actually is?

[ Torc Robotics ]

We featured one of David Schaefer’s Cozmo videos back in November, and we somehow missed the Christmas edition:

That rap song and dance represent 4,000 lines of code. Cozmo may be easier to program than most robots (check out our 2016 interview with Anki co-founder and president Hanns Tappeiner for more), but that’s still an enormous amount of work, so here’s another New Year’s themed video to appreciate:

And just one more, because it has Cinnamon the guinea pig in it:

[ Life with Cozmo ]

Thanks David!

In New Zealand, they’re letting the dogs sleep in and herding sheep with drones instead.

[ Man and Drone ]

TRI introduces Platform 3.0, the next-generation automated driving research vehicle. The new platform, which is built on a Lexus LS 600hL, combines greater technological capabilities with new harmonized styling that integrates the automated vehicle technology into the LS model’s design.

[ TRI ]

In December, we posted a video from Vincent Berenz at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems showing an HRI demo with their robot Apollo. This follow-up video shows the demo from Apollo’s perspective, via its Asus Xtion.

More details are in the blog post linked below.

[ Vincent Berenz ]

Thanks Vincent!

The COBRA-Bee integrates TUI’s COBRA carpal-wrist gimbal into a payload for NASA’s Astrobee robot. The Astrobee is a free-flying robot that will assist astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The COBRA-Bee will provide the Astrobee with a means of orienting and actuating sensors, grippers, and other tools.

We’ve asked the folks over at NASA for an update on Astrobee, and we should have that for you in the next few weeks. And if you’ve never heard of Astrobee before, shame on you, read our article!

[ Tethers Unlimited ] via [ Astrobee ]

Drone-Box is a solution by Delft Dynamics for fast deployment of drones. Due to its automatic door and electric lift, it can be remotely operated. DroneCatcher is a multicopter that is armed with a netgun. It can safely remove unwanted drones from the air. After detection by, say, a radar, vision, or an acoustic system, DroneCatcher is able to quickly approach hovering or moving threats. With the use of multiple onboard sensors, the netgun can be locked on the target. Thanks to DroneCatcher’s track & trace capabilities, the drone will be caught by shooting a net. After the catch, DroneCatcher can transport the captured drone (which it hauls via an attached cable) to a harmless place. When the caught drone is too heavy to tow, the target can be dropped with a parachute to ensure low impact on the ground.

While the video seems to suggest that the quadcopter lands back in the box, I’m naturally suspicious, and I’m wondering if it didn’t just land behind it.

[ DroneCatcher ]

The TBS Caipirinha II can fly for up to two hours, but we only get four minutes of video to chill with:

[ Team BlackSheep ]

Robotec has a new version of its magnetic guide sensors for automated guided vehicles. Yeah, we know autonomous mobile robots that don’t require guides are all the rage, but magnetic tape is cheap, simple, and reliable, and if you don’t need versatility, it’s not something you need to be embarassed about.

The sensor is primarily used to steer Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), moving material on factory floors. However, its unique sensitivity and accuracy opens a world of new applications such as automatic shelf replenishing in supermarkets, patient transport in hospitals, stage theater props, or rail-less tramways. Compared to other guiding techniques, magnetic guides are totally passive and therefore easy to lay and modify. The tape creates an invisible field that is immune to dirt and unaffected by lighting conditions. The magnetic track can be totally hidden under any non-ferrous flooring material, such as linoleum, tiles, or carpet.

[ Roboteq ]

Thanks Cosma!

A guy on YouTube named Linus reviews Jibo, and he’s not all that impressed. Except for the twerking. He’s impressed with that.

[ Jibo ] via [ YouTube ]

In this week’s episode of Robots in Depth, Per interviews Dan Kara, founder of Robotics Trends & RoboBusiness.

Dan Kara talks about how a trip to Japan made him start Robotics Trends & RoboBusiness. He also shares his views on what is going on in robotics. Like many others, Dan found robotics early in science fiction. We hear how the focus has shifted from military applications in the early 2000s to more and more consumer focused progress. Agility in production is also discussed as consumer demand pushes manufacturers to refocus from large scale production of similar items to more customer focused production.

[ Robots in Depth ]

Video Friday: Drone Fireworks, Cozmo Rap, and Justin Timberlake syndicated from http://ift.tt/2Bq2FuP