Video Friday is your weekly collection 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.
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, 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
Take pleasure in at this time’s movies!
Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robotic designed for human-robot interplay, inventive coding, and AI experimentation. Totally programmable in Python (and shortly JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299, it’s your gateway into robotics AI: enjoyable, customizable, and able to be a part of your subsequent coding challenge.
I’m so comfortable that Pollen and Reachy discovered a house with Hugging Face, however I hope they perceive that they’re by no means, ever allowed to alter that robotic’s face. O-o
[ Reachy Mini ] by way of [ Hugging Face ]
Common-purpose robots promise a future the place household help is ubiquitous and getting older in place is supported by dependable, clever assist. These robots will unlock human potential by enabling folks to form and work together with the bodily world in transformative new methods. On the core of this transformation are Massive Conduct Fashions (LBMs) – embodied AI methods that soak up robotic sensor knowledge and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on massive, numerous manipulation datasets and provide the important thing to realizing sturdy, general-purpose robotic intelligence. But regardless of their rising reputation, we nonetheless know surprisingly little about what at this time’s LBMs truly provide – and at what value. This uncertainty stems from the problem of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. Because of this, progress in algorithm and dataset design is commonly guided by instinct slightly than proof, hampering progress. Our work goals to alter that.
Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of bodily intelligence by growing AI-driven robotic platforms able to high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. This video showcases Kinisi’s newest wheeled-base humanoid performing dexterous bin stacking and merchandise sorting utilizing closed-loop notion and motion planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time imaginative and prescient to attain sturdy manipulation with out reliance on fastened infrastructure. By integrating customized {hardware} with onboard intelligence, Kinisi allows scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing towards broader industrial readiness for embodied AI methods.
[ Kinisi Robotics ]
Thanks, Bren!
On this work, we develop a data collection system the place human and robotic knowledge are collected and unified in a shared house, and suggest a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that’s pretrained on human knowledge and fine-tuned on robotic knowledge. This permits excessive knowledge effectivity and efficient switch from human to quadrupedal embodiments, facilitating versatile manipulation abilities for unimanual and bimanual, non-prehensile and prehensile, exact tool-use, and long-horizon duties, resembling cat litter scooping!
[ Human2LocoMan ]
Thanks, Yaru!
LEIYN is a quadruped robotic geared up with an lively waist joint. It achieves the world’s quickest chimney climbing via dynamic motions realized by way of reinforcement learning.
[ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Keita!
Quadrupedal robots are actually simply bipedal robots that haven’t realized to stroll on two legs but.
[ Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab, University of Hong Kong ]
This research introduces a biomimetic self-healing module for tendon-driven legged robots that makes use of robotic movement to activate liquid metal sloshing, which removes floor oxides and considerably enhances therapeutic power. Validated on a life-sized monopod robotic, the module allows repeated squatting after affect injury, marking the primary demonstration of lively self-healing in high-load robotic functions.
Thanks, Kento!
That entire placing wheels on quadruped robots factor was an excellent thought that somebody had means again when.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
I do know nothing about this video besides that it’s very satisfying and comes from a YouTube account that hasn’t posted in 6 years.
Our AI WORKER now is available in a brand new Swerve Drive configuration, optimized for logistics environments. With its agile and omnidirectional motion, the swerve-type cellular base can effectively carry out numerous logistics duties resembling merchandise transport, shelf navigation, and exact positioning in slender aisles.
Wait, you possibly can have a bimanual humanoid with out legs? I’m shocked.
[ ROBOTIS ]
I can’t inform whether or not I want an workplace assistant, or if I simply want snacks.
[ PNDbotics ]
“MagicBot Z1: Atomic kinetic energy, the courageous are fearless,” says the MagicBot web site. Laborious to argue with that!
[ MagicLab ]
We’re excited to announce our new HQ in Palo Alto [CA]. As we develop, consolidating our Sunnyvale [CA] and Moss [Norway] workforce below one roof will speed up our velocity to ramping manufacturing and getting NEO into houses close to you.
I’m not totally certain that shifting from Norway to California is an improve, truthfully.
[ 1X ]
Jim Kernan, Chief Product Officer at Engineered Arts, shares how they’re commercializing humanoid robots—mixing AI, expressive design, and real-world functions to construct belief and engagement.
[ Humanoids Summit ]
Within the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview sequence, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a dialog in regards to the early days of Wing and the way the workforce solved a few of their hardest engineering challenges to develop easy, light-weight, cheap delivery drones that at the moment are getting used every single day throughout three continents.
[ Moonshot Podcast ]
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