Robo-Insight #4

Source: OpenAI's DALL·E 2 with prompt "a hyperrealistic picture of a robot reading the news on a laptop at a coffee shop" Welcome to the 4th edition of Robo-Insight, a biweekly robotics news update! In this post, we are excited to share a range of new advancements in the field and highlight robots' progress in areas like mobile applications, cleaning, underwater mining, flexibility, human well-being, depression treatments, and human interactions. In the world of system adaptions, researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology have introduced a methodology that bridges the gap between application developers and control engineers in the context of mobile robots' behavior adaptation. This approach leverages symbolic descriptions of robots' behavior, known as "behavior semantics," and translates them into control actions through a "semantic map." This innovation aims to simplify motion control programming for autonomous mobile robot applications and facilitate integration across various vendors' control software.