• Video Friday: Robot Dog Can’t Fall

    Video Friday: Robot Dog Can’t Fall
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
    RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 2024, KASSEL, GERMANYAUVSI XPONENTIAL 2024: 22–25 April 2024, SAN DIEGOEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPANRoboCup 2024: 17–22 J
  • You can make songs in seconds with Suno AI. We test if they're actually good – video

    Social media reporter Matilda Boseley reacts to songs made with Suno AI, a new AI music generator. Like other paying users, Guardian Australia now owns the rights to these songs. But is this technology actually good enough to threaten the livelihoods of musicians? Spoiler alert: it’s no worse than some tracks on the radio, but don’t expect a Grammy anytime soon Continue reading...
  • Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?

    Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?
    Plug in some prompts and the ‘ChatGPT for music’ whips up a song in seconds – if you don’t mind slightly silly lyricsHeralded as the ChatGPT for music, Suno AI is the latest iteration of generative artificial intelligence to flood social feeds, wowing users with its (ahem) lyrical prowess.Plug in the musical style you want, a genre and a prompt for lyrics and Suno can spit out a full song for you in a matter of seconds.Coffee, you’re my fuel for the soul (oh-oh)
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  • Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls

    Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls
    We tend to think about hopping robots from the ground up. That is, they start on the ground, and then, by hopping, incorporate a aerial phase into their locomotion. But there’s no reason why aerial robots can’t approach hopping from the other direction, by adding a hopping ground phase to flight. Hopcopter is the first robot that I’ve ever seen give this a try, and it’s remarkably effective, combining a tiny quadrotor with a springy leg to hop hop hop all over the place.S
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