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25 November 2020
Vol 5, Issue 48
Vol 5, Issue 48
Editorial
- Robots are not immune to bias and injustice
Social constructs drive human-robot interactions; robotics is thus intertwined with issues surrounding inequity and racial injustices.
Focus
- Spray-on magnetic skin for robotic actuation
A minimalist robot construction strategy offers versatility and compatibility in actuating diverse objects on demand.
Research Articles
- Deep learning can accelerate grasp-optimized motion planning
Warm-starting grasp-optimized motion planning with deep learning reduces computation time by two orders of magnitude.
- An agglutinate magnetic spray transforms inanimate objects into millirobots for biomedical applications
Millirobots with magnetically drivable surfaces display a range of locomotive abilities and programmable behavior.
About The Cover
ONLINE COVER Smooth Manipulator. Robot picking for commercial applications requires smooth robot arm motions from a variety of configurations to be computed quickly and efficiently. Ichnowski et al. have developed an algorithm for robot picking that considers jerk limits to produce smoother trajectories and uses deep learning to speed up the computation of those trajectories. The algorithm, which was validated on a UR5 robot, reduced the computation time of a preexisting motion planner from 25 seconds to 80 milliseconds. This month's cover is a photograph of a UR5 robot picking objects. [IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM LAU/BERKELEY ENGINEERING]
