ARMAR, humanoid robots, Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab (HIS), Karlsruhe Institue of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

https://youtu.be/-8oC-WW5P1I

Robots bootstrapped through learning from experience

Published on Jul 28, 2016

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This video shows an integrated demonstration of central results of the Xperience project. In the example task of preparing a salad
and setting a table together with a human, the robot ARMAR-III uses its knowledge gained from previous experience to plan and execute
the necessary actions towards its goal. The demonstration highlights the aspects of the realization of integrated complete robot systems,
and emphasizes the concept of structural bootstrapping on the levels of human-robot communication and physical interaction, sensorimotor
learning, learning of object affordances, and planning in robotics.

The scenario integrates several scientific methods developed in the project:
- Execution of complex manipulation tasks and plans based on the developed architecture and its implementation
- Automatic generation of domain descriptions for planning based on the robots experience
- Replanning on the fly in case of missing objects
- Replacing missing objects by employing different bootstrapping (replacement) strategies
- Replacing actions by adapting previously learnt actions to new context
- Human-robot communication in natural language including the robot's understanding of spoken commands, world descriptions, and feedback as well as the robot's ability to ask the human for help and information
- Handing over objects between the robot and the human

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https://youtu.be/b9ZI6NX7fCk

SecondHands project members present first robot prototype ARMAR-6

Published on Jan 11, 2018

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SecondHands is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aiming to design a collaborative robot (cobot) that can proactively offer support to maintenance technicians working in Ocado’s highly automated warehouses, also known as Customer Fulfilment Centers (CFCs). This robot will be a second pair of hands that will assist technicians when they are in need of help. The robot will learn through observation and will augment the humans' capabilities by completing tasks that require a level of precision or physical strength that are not available to human workers.

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"KIT's ARMAR-6 Humanoid Will Help Humans Fix Other Robots"

by Evan Ackerman
January 16, 2018

https://youtu.be/6AFkrGkKI7g

Published on Jul 20, 2018

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The humanoid robot ARMAR-6 collaborating with a human worker in a bimanual overhead task and performing force-based bimanual manipulation, vision-based grasping, fluent object handover, human activity recognition, natural language based human-robot dialog and interaction, navigation among many other features on a use case supplied by Ocado. In a complex maintenance task demonstration, the robot was able to recognize the need of help of a technician based on speech, force and visual information.
The video shows a one shot take of the demonstration shown at the CeBIT 2018 (June 11-18) more than 50 times.

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https://youtu.be/5BEVluiEqcI

ARMAR-6: A collaborative humanoid robot for industrial environments

Published on Nov 8, 2018

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Video attachment to our paper:

ARMAR-6: A Collaborative Humanoid Robot for Industrial Environments
Asfour, T., Kaul, L., Wächter, M., Ottenhaus, S., Weiner, P., Rader, S., Grimm, R., Zhou, Y., Grotz, M., Paus, F., Shingarey, D. and Haubert, H.

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https://youtu.be/_ddWTvKwrXA

ARMAR-6 grasping pipeline

Published on Nov 15, 2018

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ARMAR-6 demonstrates grasping various tools in a warehouse environment utilizing the mobile platform and the 8-DoF arms. Based on environment models and depth cameras collision-free trajectories for the mobile platform and the arms are calculated to reach an automatically selected grasping pose by employing a pipeline of algorithms consisting of inverse kinematics, grasp planning, collision-free motion planning, and robot placement calculation.

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https://youtu.be/trVhkEgd-Y0

Autonomous grasping of unknown objects in cluttered scenes with the humanoid robot ARMAR-6

Jan 29, 2020

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The humanoid Robot ARMAR-6 grasps unknown objects in a cluttered box autonomously.

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https://youtu.be/-KF5XSSTn_o

Horizon 2020 Secondhands Project - Pioneering collaborative robotics

May 5, 2020

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The Horizon2020 SecondHands consortium has achieved major breakthroughs in its development of a collaborative robot which can proactively assist humans in maintenance tasks.

The ARMAR-6 is a revolutionary robot platform which has been tested in real-world industry for robustness and high performance. The breakthroughs made as part of this project in AI Learning, Natural Language Processing and Robotic Manipulation achieve collaborative robotic capabilities which exceed the current state-of-the-art.

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secondhands.eu

https://youtu.be/6cDgVrwchSg

ARMAR-6: collaborative humanoid robot that recognizes the need of help and provides assistance

Oct 20, 2020

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ARMAR-6: Collaborative Humanoid Robot that Recognizes the Need of Help and Provides Assistance to Technicians in a Pro-Active Manner

This video shows a demonstration of central results of the SecondHands project. In the context of maintenance and repair tasks, in warehouse environments, the collaborative humanoid robot ARMAR-6 demonstrates a number of cognitive and sensorimotor abilities such as 1) recognition of the need of help based on speech, force, haptics and visual scene and action interpretation,
2) collaborative bimanual manipulation of large objects, 3) compliant mobile manipulation, 4) grasping known and unknown objects and tools, 5) human-robot interaction (object and tool handover) 6) natural dialog and 7) force predictive control

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