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: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 May 2025, LONDON
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
ETH Robotics Summer School: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
IAS 2025: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY
ICRES 2025: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
Enjoy today’s videos!
There is an immense amount of potential for innovation and development in the field of human-robot collaboration — and we’re excited to release Meta PARTNR, a research framework that includes a large-scale benchmark, dataset and large planning model to jump start additional research in this exciting field.
[ Meta PARTNR ]
Humanoid is the first AI and robotics company in the UK, creating the world’s leading, commercially scalable, and safe humanoid robots.
[ Humanoid ]
To complement our review paper, “Grand Challenges for Burrowing Soft Robots,” we present a compilation of soft burrowers, both organic and robotic. Soft organisms use specialized mechanisms for burrowing in granular media, which have inspired the design of many soft robots. To improve the burrowing efficacy of soft robots, there are many grand challenges that must be addressed by roboticists.
[ Faboratory Research ] at [ Yale University ]
Three small lunar rovers were packed up at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the first leg of their multistage journey to the Moon. These suitcase-size rovers, along with a base station and camera system that will record their travels on the lunar surface, make up NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration.]
[ NASA ]
[ Mentee Robotics ]
What do assistance robots look like? From robotic arms attached to a wheelchair to autonomous robots that can pick up and carry objects on their own, assistive robots are making a real difference to the lives of people with limited motor control.
[ Cybathlon ]
Robots can not perform reactive manipulation and they mostly operate in open-loop while interacting with their environment. Consequently, the current manipulation algorithms either are very inefficient in performance or can only work in highly structured environments. In this paper, we present closed-loop control of a complex manipulation task where a robot uses a tool to interact with objects.
[ Paper ] via [ Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories ]
Thanks, Yuki!
When the future becomes the present, anything is possible. In our latest campaign, “The New Normal,” we highlight the journey our riders experience from first seeing Waymo to relishing in the magic of their first ride. How did your first-ride feeling change the way you think about the possibilities of AVs?
[ Waymo ]
[ UCR ]
Although robots are just tools to us, it’s still important to make them somewhat expressive so they can better integrate into our world. So, we created a small animation of the robot waking up—one that it executes all by itself!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
In this live demo, an OTTO AMR expert will walk through the key differences between AGVs and AMRs, highlighting how OTTO AMRs address challenges that AGVs cannot.
[ OTTO ] by [ Rockwell Automation ]
This Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Seminar is from CMU’s Aaron Johnson, on “Uncertainty and Contact with the World.”
As robots move out of the lab and factory and into more challenging environments, uncertainty in the robot’s state, dynamics, and contact conditions becomes a fact of life. In this talk, I’ll present some recent work in handling uncertainty in dynamics and contact conditions, in order to both reduce that uncertainty where we can but also generate strategies that do not require perfect knowledge of the world state.
[ CMU RI ]
From Your Site Articles
Related Articles Around the Web
