Video Friday is your weekly choice 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.
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Could 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Could 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Could 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
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
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 at present’s movies!
[ Unitree ]
A group of scientists and college students from Delft University of Technology within the Netherlands( TU Delft) has taken first place on the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi – a world race that pushes the boundaries of bodily artificial intelligence, difficult groups to fly absolutely autonomous drones utilizing solely a single digital camera. The TU Delft drone competed in opposition to 13 autonomous drones and even human drone racing champions, utilizing revolutionary strategies to coach deep neural networks for high-performance management.
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RAI’s Extremely Cell Car (UMV) is studying some new methods!
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With 28 transferring joints (20 QDD actuators + 8 servo motors), Cosmo can stroll with its two ft with a pace of as much as 1 m/s (0.5 m/s nominal) and stability itself even when pushed. Coordinated with the movement of its head, fingers, legs and arms, Cosmo has a loud and expressive voice for efficient interplay with people. Cosmo speaks in canned phrases from the 90’s cartoon he originates from and his speech might be absolutely localized in any language.
[ RoMeLa ]
We wrote about Parallel Systems again in January of 2022, and it’s good to see that their inventive tackle autonomous rail remains to be transferring alongside.
[ Parallel Systems ]
RoboCake is prepared. This edible robotic cake is the results of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Expertise in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Expertise) and pastry cooks and meals scientists from EHL in Lausanne. It takes the type of a robotic marriage ceremony cake, embellished with two gummy robotic bears and edible darkish chocolate batteries that energy the candles.
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ROBOTERA’s absolutely self-developed five-finger dexterous hand has upgraded its abilities, remodeling into an esports hand within the blink of an eye fixed! The XHAND1 options 12 lively levels of freedom, pioneering an industry-first absolutely direct-drive joint design. It gives distinctive flexibility and sensitivity, effortlessly dealing with precision duties like finger opposition, selecting up tender objects, and grabbing playing cards. Moreover, it delivers highly effective grip energy with a most payload of practically 25 kilograms, making it adaptable to a variety of complicated utility eventualities.
[ ROBOTERA ]
Witness the way forward for industrial automation as Prolong Robotics trials their cutting-edge humanoid robotic in Leyland factories. On this groundbreaking video, see how the robotic skillfully connects a grasp service disconnect unit—a important process in manufacturing unit operations. Watch onsite staff seamlessly collaborate with the robotic utilizing an intuitive XR (extended reality) interface, mixing human experience with robotic precision.
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I sort of like the concept of getting a cell robotic that lives in my storage and manages the charging and cleansing of my automobile.
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How can we guarantee robots utilizing foundation models, reminiscent of large language models (LLMs), gained’t “hallucinate” when executing duties in complicated, beforehand unseen environments? Our Protected and Assured Basis Robots for Open Environments (SAFRON) Superior Analysis Idea (ARC) seeks concepts to verify robots behave solely as directed & supposed.
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What if doing all your chores have been as straightforward as flipping a change? On this discuss and reside demo, roboticist and founding father of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robotic designed that can assist you out round the home. Watch as NEO reveals off its means to hoover, water crops and preserve you firm, whereas Børnich tells the story of its improvement — and shares a imaginative and prescient for robotic helpers that might unencumber your time to concentrate on what actually issues.
Rodney Brooks gave a keynote on the Stanford HAI spring convention on Robotics in a Human-Centered World.
There are a bunch of wonderful talks from this convention on YouTube on the hyperlink beneath, however I feel this panel is particularly good, as a dialogue of going from from analysis to real-world impression.
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Wing CEO Adam Woodworth discusses consumer drone delivery with Peter Diamandis at Abundance 360.
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This CMU RI Seminar is from Sangbae Kim, who was till very just lately at MIT however is now the Robotics Architect at Meta’s Robotics Studio.
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