ICRA is the largest conference on Robotics and Automation. This year, the robotics community reflected on the strong and natural relationship between robots and rubber duckies. This is the result:
Duckies and Robots: Selected Poems
Please vote your favorite poem using this form. We will award a special prize (a functional duckie-robot hybrid) to the author of the most favorited poem.
Furthermore, the robotics community created a series of video tributes to the rubber duckies.
These are the papers featured in this episode. Please feel free to contact the authors for more information.
Dynamic Underactuated Flying-Walking (DUCK) Robot
University of Utah Robotics Center, University of Utah
Saccade Mirror 3: High-speed gaze controller with ultra wide gaze control range using triple rotational mirrors
Gunma University
Trajectory Generation for Quadrotor based Systems using Numerical Optimal Control
LAAS-CNRS
The Flying Monkey: a Mesoscale Robot that can Run, Fly, and Grasp
UPenn, Harvard, MIT, UCSD
These are the papers featured in this episode. Please feel free to contact the authors for more information.
Multi-Sensor Surface Analysis for Robotic Ironing
Columbia University
Deep Spatial Autoencoders for Visuomotor Learning
UC Berkeley
An ISO10218-compliant adaptive damping controller for safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction
PRISME Laboratory, University of Orléans
Robotic Disease Detection in Greenhouses
ABC robotics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Interactive Computational Imaging for Deformable Object Analysis
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, Queensland University of Technology
These are the papers featured in this episode. Please feel free to contact the authors for more information.
Printable Hydraulics: A Method for Fabricating Robots by 3D Co-Printing Solids and Liquids
MIT
Triple Scissor Extender: A 6-DOF Lifting and Positioning Robot
MIT
Hierarchical Planning of Dynamic Movements without Scheduled Contact Sequences
Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
The effect of shapes in input-state linearization for stabilization of nonprehensile planar rolling dynamic manipulation
University of Naples
Aggressive Driving with Model Predictive Path Integral Control
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology
These are the papers featured in this episode. Please feel free to contact the authors for more information.
Modular Hydraulic Propulsion: A Robot that Moves by Routing Fluid Through Itself
University of Sheffield
Visual Tracking of Biopsy Needles in 2D Ultrasound Images
Ozyegin University
Compensation for Unconstrained Catheter Shaft Motion in Cardiac Catheters
Harvard University
Catadioptric Stereo Tracking for Three Dimensional Shape Measurement of MRI Guided Catheters
Case Western Reserve University
Ingestible, Controllable, and Degradable Origami Robot for Patching Stomach Wounds
MIT, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Sheffield
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Organizer/editor: Andrea Censi. Narration: Alessandro De Luca, Dana Kulic.