Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 Might 2025, ATLANTA, GA
London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 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
Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
[ Unitree ]
A staff 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 global race that pushes the bounds of bodily artificial intelligence, difficult groups to fly totally autonomous drones utilizing solely a single digital camera. The TU Delft drone competed towards 13 autonomous drones and even human drone racing champions, utilizing progressive strategies to coach deep neural networks for high-performance management.
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RAI’s Extremely Cellular Automobile (UMV) is studying some new methods!
[ RAI Institute ]
With 28 shifting joints (20 QDD actuators + 8 servo motors), Cosmo can stroll with its two toes with a pace of as much as 1 m/s (0.5 m/s nominal) and steadiness 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 may be totally 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 continues to be shifting 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, adorned with two gummy robotic bears and edible darkish chocolate batteries that energy the candles.
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ROBOTERA’s totally self-developed five-finger dexterous hand has upgraded its abilities, reworking into an esports hand within the blink of an eye fixed! The XHAND1 options 12 energetic levels of freedom, pioneering an industry-first totally direct-drive joint design. It provides distinctive flexibility and sensitivity, effortlessly dealing with precision duties like finger opposition, choosing up smooth 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 software situations.
[ 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 crucial activity in manufacturing facility 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 cellular robotic that lives in my storage and manages the charging and cleansing of my automotive.
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How can we guarantee robots utilizing foundation models, similar to 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 & meant.
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What if doing all your chores had been as straightforward as flipping a change? On this speak and dwell demo, roboticist and founding father of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robotic designed that will help you out round the home. Watch as NEO exhibits off its skill to hoover, water crops and hold you firm, whereas Børnich tells the story of its improvement — and shares a imaginative and prescient for robotic helpers that would unencumber your time to give attention to what really issues.
Rodney Brooks gave a keynote on the Stanford HAI spring convention on Robotics in a Human-Centered World.
There are a bunch of fantastic talks from this convention on YouTube on the hyperlink under, however I feel this panel is very good, as a dialogue of going from from analysis to real-world influence.
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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 not too long ago at MIT however is now the Robotics Architect at Meta’s Robotics Studio.
[ CMU RI ]
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