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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
World Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN
IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL
CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL
Get pleasure from at present’s movies!
I like the platform and I like the use case, however this explicit supply technique is… Odd?
[ RIVR ]
That is only the start of what folks and bodily AI can accomplish collectively. To acknowledge enterprise worth from collaborative robotics, you must perceive what folks do properly, what robots do properly—and the way they finest come collectively to create productiveness. DHL and Sturdy.AI are partnering to outline the way forward for human-robot collaboration.
[ Robust AI ]
Teleoperated robotic characters can carry out expressive interactions with people, counting on the operators’ expertise and social instinct. On this work, we suggest to create autonomous interactive robots, by coaching a mannequin to mimic operator knowledge. Our mannequin is skilled on a dataset of human-robot interactions, the place an knowledgeable operator is requested to range the interactions and temper of the robotic, whereas the operator instructions in addition to the pose of the human and robotic are recorded.
Introducing THEMIS V2, our all-new full-size humanoid robotic. Standing at 1.6m with 40 DoF, THEMIS V2 now options enhanced 6 DoF arms and superior 7 DoF end-effectors, together with a further body-mounted stereo digicam and as much as 200 TOPS of onboard AI computing energy. These upgrades ship distinctive capabilities in manipulation, notion, and navigation, pushing humanoid robotics to new heights.
[ Westwood ]
BMW x Determine Replace: This isn’t a check atmosphere—it’s actual manufacturing operations. Actual-world robots are advancing our Helix AI and strengthening our end-to-end autonomy to deploy tens of millions of robots.
[ Figure ]
On March 13, at WorldMinds 2025, within the Kaufleuten Theater of Zurich, our crew demonstrated for the primary time two autonomous vision-based racing drones. It was an epic journey to organize for this occasion, given the poor lighting circumstances and the security constraints of a theater crammed with greater than 500 folks! The background display screen visualizes in real-time the observations of the AI algorithm of every drone. No map, no IMU, no SLAM!
[ University of Zurich (UZH) ]
Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. Single hand with 20 levels of freedom (16 lively+4 passive). Allow clean backdrivability (direct power management). Geared up with 94 extremely delicate contact factors (non-obligatory).
[ Unitree ]
You possibly can say “real world manipulation” all you need, however till it’s really in the true world, I’m not shopping for it.
[ 1X ]
Developed by Pudu X-Lab, FlashBot Arm elevates the capabilities of our flagship FlashBot by mixing superior humanoid manipulation and clever supply capabilities, powered by cutting-edge embodied AI. This highly effective mixture permits the robotic to autonomously carry out a variety of duties throughout various settings, together with motels, workplace buildings, eating places, retail areas, and healthcare services.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
If you happen to ever needed to govern a trilby with 25 robots, an answer now exists.
[ Paper ] through [ EPFL Reconfigurable Robotics Lab ] revealed by [ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ]
We’ve been sharing movies from the Suzumori Endo Robotics Lab on the Institute of Science Tokyo for a few years, and Professor Suzumori is now retiring.
Finest needs to Professor Suzumori!
[ DARPA ]
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured new photos of a number of mud devils whereas exploring the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars. The biggest mud satan was roughly 210 ft extensive (65 meters). On this Mars Report, atmospheric scientist Priya Patel explains what mud devils can train us about climate circumstances on the Crimson Planet.
[ NASA ]
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