A British f & e unit compared with DARPA financed synthetic muscles, electronic skin and mechanical hands for a robotic skill project.
The Advanced Research and Inventent Agency (Aria) today presented the 10 teams selected for the program. Your mission: redeem a new era of skill that will change the robotic and human productivity.
Members of the group include startups, university laboratories, public research organizations and large companies. They receive a total of 52 million GBP to drive the physical skill of robots.
The funds aim to close the software hardware gap in the robotics that expanded during the AI boom.
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Robot bodies are now behind progress in the calculation. Their failure to correspond to the flexibility, speed and precision of humans has severely restricted their use.
Algorithms now quickly reach new levels of intelligence. Aria wants the hardware to catch up.
The agency argues that there is an urgent need for progress. The proportion of the world population aged over 65 is tripled until 2100. At the same time, a shortage of workers for physically demanding jobs are increasing. Robots could offer significant support.
The robotics teams
Members of the program have proposed various solutions for the challenge.
Arthur Robotics, a startup based in London, would like to commercialize a mechanical hand inspired by biology. The motorized limb focuses on the production and mixes soft, deformable contact surfaces with a rich tactile detection and reinforcement learning.
A team of Lorenzo Jamone, an extraordinary professor of robotics and AI at University College London, will develop electronic skin. Based on magnetic technology, the skin aims to measure the 3D contact forces in several places. It can also bend and stretch.
Startups from outside of Great Britain also contribute to this. Denmark's pliantics will create soft linear actuators who serve as “artificial muscles” that improve the physical interactions of a robot. Another set of artificial muscles is built by artimus, a US company, together with researchers at the University of Bristol.
Nicholas Kellaris, co -founder and Chief Research Officer of Artimus, praised the project on the cooperation.
“This program is unique in how it promotes the cooperation between Creator at all development levels and is actively facilitating, from basic hardware to simulation, integration and validation of complete solutions,” he said. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to do so [join] This multi -stage and interdisciplinary approach. “
The Aria model
Aria was founded in 2023 and promotes “high risk, high reward”. The strategy has made comparisons with Darpa, an agency of the US Department of Defense, which develops emerging technologies.
The Pentagon unit was involved in a variety of transformative innovations, from the Internet and GPS via stealth technology and autonomous vehicles.
A large number of projects are already underway at Aria. An unveiled last year planned the provision “Quantitative security guarantees” for AI with digital gatekeeper. Another goal is to create early warning systems for climate tip points. A third looks at nature to train AI with 0.1% of the costs.
With the arrival of the robotics skill teams, Aria now adds futuristic hardware to his laboratories.
Here you will find the full list of concepts in the program.
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