Podcast: Robots Working on the Moon and in Warehouses

14 Jun, 2022

The robotic explorer GLIMPSE, created at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, has made it into the final round of a competition for prospecting resources in space. (Photograph: Team Glimpse)

In this episode, we talk about how robotic dogs might be the next best astronauts as they are well-equipped to explore the Moon’s unforgiving terrain, and about a framework for launching swarms of robots into warehouses to get work done better, safer, and more efficiently.

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In this episode, we talk about how robotic dogs might be the next best astronauts as they are well-equipped to explore the Moon’s unforgiving terrain, and about a framework for launching swarms of robots into warehouses to get work done better, safer, and more efficiently. As always, you can find these and other interesting & impactful engineering articles on Wevolver.com.

This podcast is sponsored by Mouser Electronics.

EPISODE NOTES

(2:55) - Robot Dogs To The Moon 🐶

(14:50) - Warehouse Navigating Robots 🏭

Episode 74 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to read the article about the tech that allows us to build robotic dogs.

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Space Applications Services procured components for a space project.

How an online manufacturer supplied over 50 components for the LUVMI lunar rover, a project of the Space Applications Services that specializes in space technology.

Wevolver Staff

fromFACTUREE – The Online Manufacturer

23 Sep, 2022

space

- space robots

Recently Wevolver partner FACTUREE provided over 50 components to an ongoing space project called LUVMI, the Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation. LUVMI is a smart, modular, and scalable platform that can accommodate payloads and provide mobility on the moon and is being developed by Space Application Services NV/SA.

The company specializes in system and software development, providing services for the European Space Agency (ESA), national space agencies, and the aerospace industry. They have headquarters in the Brussels region and a subsidiary, Aerospace Applications North America, in Houston. The company provides international solutions and technologies to advance areas such as spacecraft, earth observation, science and exploration, and communication.

The mission of LUVMI is to search for water and other volatiles, scoping out the lunar environment in support of the establishment of a lunar economy and of future human missions to the Moon and beyond.

LUVMI-X is the next phase of the LUVMI concept, which developed mobile instrumentation to analyse traces of volatiles in regions of the Moon in perpetual darkness. A mobile system comprising state of the art instruments and a robotic platform was designed, and a prototype was built and tested successfully.

Building on the success of its predecessor, LUVMI-X focuses on the design of a mobile platform with standardised instrument interfaces, featuring cutting-edge payloads able to feature cutting-edge instruments able to analyse volatiles remotely, and others that measure radiation. The rover will have room for custom instruments that other scientists may wish to send to the Moon in the near future.

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Siedel says, “The LUVMI rover is suitable for use in the polar regions of the moon. Among other things, it can remotely deploy and recover cube payloads and explore volatile elements and other resources. FACTUREE has supp

Image: Nauticus Robotics’ Aquanaut robot can swim to a destination and carry out tasks with minimal supervision, saving money for offshore operations from oil wells and wind turbines to fish farms and more. Credits: Nauticus Robotics Inc.

NASA Space Robotics Dive into Deep-Sea Work

What’s the difference between deep space and the deep sea? For a robot, the answer is: not much. Both environments are harsh and demanding, and, more importantly, both are far removed from the machine’s operator.

Loura Hall

fromNASA

04 Aug, 2022

space

- space robots

- swimming robots

What’s the difference between deep space and the deep sea? For a robot, the answer is: not much. Both environments are harsh and demanding, and, more importantly, both are far removed from the machine’s operator.

That’s why a team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston decided to apply their expertise to designing a shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs for maritime industries.

NASA’s Robonaut 2, built at Johnson Space Center, became the first android astronaut to go to space in 2011. Now, about two dozen former NASA engineers, many of whom helped build the robot astronaut, have turned their skills to creating underwater robots at Nauticus Robotics.

“What NASA taught us is to put together robust software autonomy with a capable hardware morphology and deploy it in a remote setting,” said Nic Radford, founder, chairman, president, and CEO of Houston-based Nauticus Robotics Inc. During his 14 years at Johnson, Radford was, among other roles, deputy project manager and chief engineer for the humanoid robot Robonaut 2. Now more than 20 engineers who worked on that project and other NASA robots have joined the 80-person team he’s put together at Nauticus.

Whether a robot is working in space or on the seabed, the operator is far away, with limited communication and knowledge of the robot’s surroundings, Radford said. “Even if you’re putting it on the space station and controlling it from the ground, there’s no high-speed data network. Talking to the space station is more akin to using dial-up.” So the robot has to sense and understand its environment, navigating obstacles and manipulating objects with minimal operator input.

For Robonaut 2, this meant Johnson engineers had to develop not just advanced hardware like tendon-powered hands, elastic joints, and miniaturized load cells, but also vision systems, force sensors, and infrared sensors to gather info

Podcast: Robots Working on the Moon and in Warehouses

In this episode, we talk about how robotic dogs might be the next best astronauts as they are well-equipped to explore the Moon’s unforgiving terrain, and about a framework for launching swarms of robots into warehouses to get work done better, safer, and more efficiently.

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In this episode, we talk about how robotic dogs might be the next best astronauts as they are well-equipped to explore the Moon’s unforgiving terrain, and about a framework for launching swarms of robots into warehouses to get work done better, safer, and more efficiently.

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