Video Friday is a weekly selection of amazing robot videos collected by your friends IEEE Spectrum Robotics. We will also be posting weekly calendars for upcoming robot events over the next few months. please Send your event To include.
2025 Energy Drone & Robot Summit: June 16-18, 2025, Houston
RSS 2025:21–25 June 2025, Los Angeles
Eth Robotics Summer School: June 21-27, 2025, Geneva
IAS 2025: June 30th – April 4th, 2025, Genoa, Italy
ICRES 2025: July 3-4, 2025, Porto, Portugal
IEEE World Tactile: July 8th – 11th, 2025, Suwon, Korea
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: July 15-18, 2025, Paris
Robocup 2025:15–21 July 2025, Baia, Brazil
Ro-Man 2025:25–29 August 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Clawar 2025: September 5-7, 2025, Shenzhen
Corl 2025: September 27th-30th, 2025, Seoul
IEEE Humanoid: September 30th-2nd, 2025, Seoul
World Robot Summit: October 10th-12th, 2025, Osaka, Japan
IROS 2025:19–25 October 2025, Hangzhou, China
Enjoy today's video!
Introducing Redwood – 1X's breakthrough AI model allows you to do chores around the house. For the first time, neogamma moves, understands, and interacts autonomously in complex human environments. Built to learn from real-world experience, Redwood allows NEOs to perform end-to-end mobile operational tasks such as gracefully moving around the home on hardware designed for compliance, safety and resilience, such as obtaining user objects, opening doors and navigating gracefully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzl5dvtdkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp6sqx9bgzs-YouTubewww.youtube.com
[ 1X Technology ]
Marek Michalowski, who co-created Keepon, has not posted on her YouTube channel in 17 years. Until this week. New post? This is about a project from 10 years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gap8k9jz2q
[ Project Sundial ]
Helix is now able to handle a wide range of packages that approach human-level dexterity and speed, allowing you to get closer to completely autonomous package sorting. This rapid advance highlights the scalability of Helix's learning-based approach to Lobotics, and quickly translates into real-world applications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkc2y0yb89u
[ Figure ]
This is certainly a Friday selection of atypical videos, but I saw this Broadway musical a few months ago called “maybe Happy Ending” because it is a humanoid home service robot whose main character was rejected. It was absolutely fascinating and won the Tony Award for Best New Musical, among other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzuvdu2qzo
[ “Maybe Happy Ending” ]
Boston Dynamics brought plenty of spots to “American Got Talent” and praised them for their elegant recovery from the missteps of the stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptydwp9utis
[ Boston Dynamics ]
I think this is the first time I've seen an end effector changer that is used on either the foot or the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41xnc4mu-hs
[ CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory ]
ChatGpt is now completely Navrim. Take a look at the robots with the most pessimistic ChatGpt, and think deeply about both the strategy of chess and the futility of existence, and move chess across the physical board. Experience firsthand how AI blends seamlessly with robotics, even if Navrim claims it's meaningless at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdtcwzfeiu
It's not bad at $219.
[ Vassar Robotics ]
Presents monolayer multimodal sensory skin made using only highly sensitive hydrogel membranes. Electrical impedance tomography techniques can be used to access up to 863,040 conductive pathways across the membrane to identify at least six different types of multimodal stimuli, including human touch, damage, multipoint insulation presses, and local heating. To demonstrate the versatility of our approach, we throw hydrogels into the shape and size of adult human hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0hocl0aj4
[ Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory ] Paper published by [ Science Robotics ]
This paper introduces a new robot designed to demonstrate two different modes of mobility: rotating aerial flight and terrestrial movement. This versatile robot consists of a sturdy external frame, two motors, and a single wing embodying the fuselage. The robot is capable of vertical takeoff and landing in monowing flight mode, with unique ability to fly in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions, distinguishing it from traditional monowings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdqamtjwrw
[ AIR Lab paper ] Published in [ The International journal of Robotics Research ]
When Tron 1 goes to work, all he does is steal snacks from Hoomans. Apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzq2hhoi6la
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The 100,000th robot rolled the line at Pudu Robotics' Super Factory! This important milestone highlights cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities and marks the global cargo volume of over 100,000 units offered worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2txzph7xs
[ Pudu Robotics ]
Now it's a big saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn5whdtrlv0
[ Kuka Robotics ]
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed an exploration rover to navigate extreme sloped terrain or Ernest. This rover could lead to a new class of low-cost planet Rover to explore previously inaccessible locations on Mars and the Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rih4zintzm
[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory paper ]
Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock talks with Ed Ludlow of Bloomberg Television about how to train humanoid robots for logistics, manufacturing and future roles at Bloomberg Institute of Technology in San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zobe3aoz5fw
[ Figure ]
Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, explains how humanoid robots like Digit translate logistics and manufacturing. She talks with Brad Stone of Bloomberg BusinessWeek about the rapid advances in automation and the next era of robots at the workplace at Bloomberg Institute of Technology in San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6pz2r1uhxw
[ Agility Robotics ]
This whole ICRA 2025 comes from Allison Okamura, entitled “Rewired: The Interplay of Robots and Society.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyufkvg1e
[ ICRA 2025 ]
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