Robot Videos: Exploration Robots, House Builders, More

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

World Humanoid Robot Games: 15–17 August 2025, BEIJING

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!

The A2 units a brand new commonplace in quadruped robots, balancing endurance, power, velocity, and notion.

The A2 weighs 37 kg (81.6 lbs) unloaded. Absolutely loaded with a 25 kg (55 lb) payload, it will probably repeatedly stroll for 3 hours or roughly 12.5 km. Unloaded, it will probably repeatedly stroll for five hours or roughly 20 km. Sizzling-swappable twin batteries allow seamless battery swap and steady runtime for any mission.

[ Unitree ]

Thanks, William!

ABB is working with Cosmic Buildings to reshape how communities rebuild and rework building after catastrophe. In response to the 2025 Southern California wildfires, Cosmic Buildings are deploying cellular robotic microfactories to construct modular houses on-site—slicing building time by 70% and prices by 30%.

[ ABB ]

Thanks, Caitlin!

What number of barely awkward engineers can your humanoid robot pull?

[ MagicLab ]

The bodily robot hand does some nifty stuff at about 1 minute in.

[ ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Lab ]

Biologists, you may all go residence now.

[ AgileX ]

The World Humanoid Robot Games begin subsequent week in Beijing, and naturally Tech United Eindhoven are there.

[ Tech United ]

Our USX-1 Defiant is a brand new form of autonomous maritime platform, with the potential to rework the best way we design and construct ships. Because the workforce prepares Defiant for an prolonged at-sea demonstration, program supervisor Greg Avicola shares the foundational pondering behind the breakthrough vessel.

[ DARPA ]

After loss, how do you translate grief into creation? Meditation Upon Loss of life is Paul Kirby’s most private and profound portray—a journey by way of love, loss, and the thriller of the afterlife. Impressed by a dialog with a Native American shaman and years of creative exploration, Paul fuses expertise and conventional artwork to seize the spirit’s passage past. With 5,796 brushstrokes, a custom-built robotic portray system, and a imaginative and prescient formed by reminiscence and devotion, that is crucial portray he has ever made.

[ Dulcinea ]

Thanks, Alexandra!

Within the fourth installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview sequence, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Andrew Ng, the founding father of Google Mind and DeepLearning.AI, for a dialog concerning the historical past of neural community analysis and the way Andrew’s pioneering concepts led to a few of the greatest breakthroughs in modern-day AI.

[ Moonshot Podcast ]