Robot Videos: Weekly Highlights and Innovations

Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your folks at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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

Get pleasure from as we speak’s movies!

Columbia University researchers introduce a course of that permits machines to “develop” bodily by integrating elements from their environment or from different robots, demonstrating a step towards self-sustaining robotic ecologies.

[Robot Metabolism] by way of [Columbia]

We challenged ourselves to see simply how far we may push Digit’s means to stabilize itself in response to a disturbance. Using state-of-the-art AI expertise and sturdy bodily intelligence, Digit can adapt to substantial disruptions, all with out using visible notion.

[Agility Robotics]

We’re presenting the Determine 03 (F.03) battery—a major development in our core humanoid robotic expertise roadmap.

The hassle that was put into security for this battery is spectacular. However I’d word two issues: The battery life is “5 hours of run time at peak efficiency” with out saying what “peak efficiency” truly means, and 2-kilowatt quick cost nonetheless means over an hour to totally cost.

[Figure]

Properly this can be a nifty concept.

[UBTECH]

PAPRLE is a plug-and-play robotic limb surroundings for versatile configuration and management of robotic limbs throughout functions. With PAPRLE, customers can use various configurations of leader-follower pair for teleoperation. Within the video, we present a number of teleoperation examples supported by PAPRLE.

[PAPRLE]

Thanks, Joohyung!

All the time good to see a robotic with a fastidiously thought-out industrial use case by which it could actually simply do robotic stuff like a robotic.

[Cohesive Robotics]

Thanks, David!

We’re excited about deploying autonomous legged robots in various environments, reminiscent of industrial amenities and forests. As a part of the DigiForest challenge, we’re engaged on new programs to autonomously construct forest inventories with legged platforms, which now we have deployed within the UK, Finland, and Switzerland.

[Oxford]

Thanks, Matias!

[Paper]

Thanks, Bram!

The “Superb Hand” from Pollen Robotics prices lower than $250.

[Pollen]

Welcome to our Unboxing Day! After months of ready, our humanoid robotic has lastly arrived at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart.

I used to take stretching lessons from a woman who could do this backwards in 5.43 seconds.

[Fraunhofer]

On the Changchun cease of the VOYAGEX Music Pageant on July 12, PNDbotics’ full-sized humanoid robotic Adam took the stage as a keytar participant with the well-known Chinese language musician Hu Yutong’s band.

[PNDbotics]

Materials motion is the invisible infrastructure of hospitals, airports, cities–on a regular basis life. We construct robots that help the folks doing this important, typically ignored work. Watch our CEO Brad Porter replicate on what impressed Cobot.

[Cobot]

Sure please.

[ Pollen ]

I believe I may get to the purpose of being okay with this residing in my rest room.

[Paper]

Due to its social notion, excessive expressiveness, and out-of-the-box integration, TIAGo Head provides the final word human-robot interplay expertise.

[PAL Robotics]

Sneak peek: Our No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) Defiant unmanned floor vessel is designed to function for as much as a yr at sea with out human intervention. In-water testing is getting ready it for an prolonged at-sea demonstration of reliability and endurance.

Wonderful identify for any ship.

[DARPA]

On the twenty second Worldwide Convention on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2025), highschool scholar and robotics researcher Ethan Hong was honored as a Particular Invited Speaker for the convention banquet and “Robots With Us” panel. On this heartfelt and galvanizing speak, Ethan shares the story behind Meals Angel—a meals delivery robot he designed and constructed to help folks experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Motivated by the rising crises of homelessness and food insecurity, Ethan requested a easy however profound query: “Why not use robots to assist the unhoused?”

[UR2025]