Legged Robots Learn to Hike Harsh Terrain

Robots, like humans, generally use two different sensory modalities when interacting with the world. There’s exteroceptive perception (or exteroception), which comes from external sensing systems like lidar, cameras, and eyeballs. And then there’s proprioceptive perception (or proprioception), which is internal sensing, involving things like touch, and force sensing. Generally, we…

Video Friday: Guitar Bot

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. 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!):ICRA 2022: 23–27 May 2022, PhiladelphiaERF 2022:…

Design for Functional Safety & Reliability with new FMEDA Database

Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostics Analysis (FMEDA) is popular for predicting safety and reliability during design. FMEDA results, however, are only as good as the failure rate data used in the calculations. A new component reliability database (CRD) improves accuracy, reduces engineering, identifies unforeseen failure modes, and enables better decision-making.…