Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS
CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA
ACTUATE 2025: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO
CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL
IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL
World Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN
IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Enjoy immediately’s movies!
Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robotic designed for human-robot interplay, artistic coding, and AI experimentation. Fully programmable in Python (and shortly JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299, it’s your gateway into robotics AI: enjoyable, customizable, and able to be a part of your subsequent coding challenge.
I’m so blissful that Pollen and Reachy discovered a house with Hugging Face, however I hope they perceive that they’re by no means, ever allowed to alter that robotic’s face. O-o
[ Reachy Mini ] by way of [ Hugging Face ]
General-purpose robots promise a future the place family help is ubiquitous and getting old in place is supported by dependable, clever assist. These robots will unlock human potential by enabling individuals to form and work together with the bodily world in transformative new methods. At the core of this transformation are Large Behavior Models (LBMs) – embodied AI programs that soak up robotic sensor information and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on giant, various manipulation datasets and provide the important thing to realizing sturdy, general-purpose robotic intelligence. Yet regardless of their rising recognition, we nonetheless know surprisingly little about what immediately’s LBMs really provide – and at what value. This uncertainty stems from the problem of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. As a end result, progress in algorithm and dataset design is usually guided by instinct fairly than proof, hampering progress. Our work goals to alter that.
[ Toyota Research Institute ]
Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of bodily intelligence by creating AI-driven robotic platforms able to high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. This video showcases Kinisi’s newest wheeled-base humanoid performing dexterous bin stacking and merchandise sorting utilizing closed-loop notion and movement planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time imaginative and prescient to attain sturdy manipulation with out reliance on mounted infrastructure. By integrating customized {hardware} with onboard intelligence, Kinisi permits scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing towards broader business readiness for embodied AI programs.
[ Kinisi Robotics ]
Thanks, Bren!
In this work, we develop an information assortment system the place human and robotic information are collected and unified in a shared area, and suggest a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that’s pretrained on human information and fine-tuned on robotic information. This permits excessive information effectivity and efficient switch from human to quadrupedal embodiments, facilitating versatile manipulation abilities for unimanual and bimanual, non-prehensile and prehensile, exact tool-use, and long-horizon duties, reminiscent of cat litter scooping!
[ Human2LocoMan ]
Thanks, Yaru!
LEIYN is a quadruped robotic outfitted with an energetic waist joint. It achieves the world’s quickest chimney climbing via dynamic motions discovered by way of reinforcement studying.
[ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Keita!
Quadrupedal robots are actually simply bipedal robots that haven’t discovered to stroll on two legs but.
[ Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab, University of Hong Kong ]
This examine introduces a biomimetic self-healing module for tendon-driven legged robots that makes use of robotic movement to activate liquid metallic sloshing, which removes floor oxides and considerably enhances therapeutic energy. Validated on a life-sized monopod robotic, the module permits repeated squatting after influence injury, marking the primary demonstration of energetic self-healing in high-load robotic functions.
[ University of Tokyo ]
Thanks, Kento!
That complete placing wheels on quadruped robots factor was an amazing thought that somebody had approach again when.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
I do know nothing about this video besides that it’s very satisfying and comes from a YouTube account that hasn’t posted in 6 years.
[ Young-jae Bae YouTube ]
Our AI WORKER now is available in a brand new Swerve Drive configuration, optimized for logistics environments. With its agile and omnidirectional motion, the swerve-type cell base can effectively carry out varied logistics duties reminiscent of merchandise transport, shelf navigation, and exact positioning in slender aisles.
Wait, you possibly can have a bimanual humanoid with out legs? I’m shocked.
[ ROBOTIS ]
I can’t inform whether or not I want an workplace assistant, or if I simply want snacks.
[ PNDbotics ]
“MagicBot Z1: Atomic kinetic energy, the brave are fearless,” says the MagicBot web site. Hard to argue with that!
[ MagicLab ]
We’re excited to announce our new HQ in Palo Alto [CA]. As we develop, consolidating our Sunnyvale [CA] and Moss [Norway] crew beneath one roof will speed up our pace to ramping manufacturing and getting NEO into properties close to you.
I’m not solely certain that transferring from Norway to California is an improve, truthfully.
[ 1X ]
Jim Kernan, Chief Product Officer at Engineered Arts, shares how they’re commercializing humanoid robots—mixing AI, expressive design, and real-world functions to construct belief and engagement.
[ Humanoids Summit ]
In the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview collection, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a dialog concerning the early days of Wing and the way the crew solved a few of their hardest engineering challenges to develop easy, light-weight, cheap supply drones that are actually getting used every single day throughout three continents.
[ Moonshot Podcast ]
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