Robot Videos: Weekly Highlights and Innovations

Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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 immediately’s movies!

Columbia University researchers introduce a course of that enables machines to “develop” bodily by integrating components from their environment or from different robots, demonstrating a step towards self-sustaining robotic ecologies.

[Robot Metabolism] by way of [Columbia]

We challenged ourselves to see simply how far we might push Digit’s means to stabilize itself in response to a disturbance. Using state-of-the-art AI expertise and strong bodily intelligence, Digit can adapt to substantial disruptions, all with out the usage of visible notion.

[Agility Robotics]

We’re presenting the Determine 03 (F.03) battery—a major development in our core humanoid robotic expertise roadmap.

The trouble that was put into security for this battery is spectacular. However I’d observe two issues: The battery life is “5 hours of run time at peak efficiency” with out saying what “peak efficiency” really means, and 2-kilowatt quick cost nonetheless means over an hour to completely cost.

[Figure]

Nicely it is a nifty thought.

[UBTECH]

PAPRLE is a plug-and-play robotic limb setting for versatile configuration and management of robotic limbs throughout functions. With PAPRLE, customers can use numerous configurations of leader-follower pair for teleoperation. Within the video, we present a number of teleoperation examples supported by PAPRLE.

[PAPRLE]

Thanks, Joohyung!

At all times good to see a robotic with a rigorously thought-out business use case during which it will possibly simply do robotic stuff like a robotic.

[Cohesive Robotics]

Thanks, David!

We’re concerned with deploying autonomous legged robots in numerous environments, resembling industrial services and forests. As a part of the DigiForest undertaking, we’re engaged on new methods to autonomously construct forest inventories with legged platforms, which we’ve got deployed within the UK, Finland, and Switzerland.

[Oxford]

Thanks, Matias!

[Paper]

Thanks, Bram!

The “Superb Hand” from Pollen Robotics prices lower than $250.

[Pollen]

Welcome to our Unboxing Day! After months of ready, our humanoid robotic has lastly arrived at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart.

I used to take stretching courses from a woman who could do this backwards in 5.43 seconds.

[Fraunhofer]

On the Changchun cease of the VOYAGEX Music Pageant on July 12, PNDbotics’ full-sized humanoid robotic Adam took the stage as a keytar participant with the well-known Chinese language musician Hu Yutong’s band.

[PNDbotics]

Materials motion is the invisible infrastructure of hospitals, airports, cities–on a regular basis life. We construct robots that assist the individuals doing this important, typically ignored work. Watch our CEO Brad Porter replicate on what impressed Cobot.

[Cobot]

Sure please.

[ Pollen ]

I believe I might get to the purpose of being okay with this residing in my lavatory.

[Paper]

Because of its social notion, excessive expressiveness, and out-of-the-box integration, TIAGo Head provides the last word human-robot interplay expertise.

[PAL Robotics]

Sneak peek: Our No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) Defiant unmanned floor vessel is designed to function for as much as a yr at sea with out human intervention. In-water testing is making ready it for an prolonged at-sea demonstration of reliability and endurance.

Glorious identify for any ship.

[DARPA]

On the twenty second Worldwide Convention on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2025), highschool pupil and robotics researcher Ethan Hong was honored as a Particular Invited Speaker for the convention banquet and “Robots With Us” panel. On this heartfelt and provoking discuss, Ethan shares the story behind Meals Angel—a meals delivery robot he designed and constructed to assist individuals experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Motivated by the rising crises of homelessness and food insecurity, Ethan requested a easy however profound query: “Why not use robots to assist the unhoused?”

[UR2025]