Robot Videos: DARPA Triage Challenge, Extreme Cold Test

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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

Take pleasure in in the present day’s movies!

Considered one of my favourite elements of robotics is watching analysis collide with non-roboticists in the true (or real-ish) world.

[ DARPA ]

Spot will put out fires for you. Finally. If it feels prefer it.

[ Mechatronic and Robotic Systems Laboratory ]

All these robots rising out of their crates will not be sinister in any respect.

[ LimX ]

The Lynx M20 quadruped robotic just lately accomplished an excessive cold-weather discipline check in Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, working reliably in temperatures as little as –30°C.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

This can be a teaser video for KIMLAB’s new teleoperation robotic. For now, we invite you to benefit from the calm environment, with college students strolling, gathering, and chatting throughout the UIUC Primary Quad—together with its surroundings and ambient sounds, with none technical particulars. Extra particulars will likely be shared quickly. Benefit from the second.

Probably the most unimaginable a part of this video is that they’ve publicly accessible energy in the course of their quad.

[ KIMLAB ]

For the eleventy-billionth time: Simply because you are able to do a job with a humanoid robot doesn’t imply you must do a job with a humanoid robotic.

[ UBTECH ]

[ KAIST ]

Okay, so determining the place Spot’s face is simply obtained much more difficult.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

An undergraduate group at HKU’s Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing developed CLIO, an embodied tour-guide robotic, simply in months. Constructed on LimX Dynamics TRON 1, it makes use of LLMs for tour planning, computer vision for customer recognition, and a laser pointer/expressive show for partaking excursions.