Video Friday is your weekly collection of cool robotics videos, collected by your friends on IEEE Spectrum Robots. We also publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. please Send us your events To insert.
German robocup open: March 12-16, 2025, Nuremberg, Germany
German Robotics Conference: March 13-15, 2025, Nuremberg, Germany
Robosoft 2025: April 23-26, 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland
ICUAS 2025: May 14-17, 2025, Charlotte, NC
ICRA 2025: May 19-23, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia
IEEE RCAR 2025: June 1-6, 2025, Toyama, Japan
RSS 2025: June 21-25, 2025, Los Angeles
IAS 2025: June 30 – July 4, 2025, Genoa, Italy
ICRES 2025: July 3-4, 2025, Porto, Portugal
IEEE World Haptics: July 8-11, 2025, Suwon, Korea
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: July 15-18, 2025, Paris
robocup 2025: July 15-21, 2025, Bahia, Brazil
Enjoy the videos today!
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[ Unitree ]
This is just beautiful.
[ Mimus CNK ]
There’s a lot to like Grain weevil As a consumer robot it’s functional, but what I really appreciate here is that the control system is just a remote and slapping a camera on the top of the box.
[ Grain Weevil ]
This video, “A Robot Arm That Selects Groceries Like a Real Person,” taught me that I’m not a real person.
[ Extend Robotics ]
A robot that walks like a human walks like a human thinks a robot walks like a robot walks.
And that was my favorite brainstorm of the week.
[ Engineai ]For us, robots are tools to simplify life. But it has to look friendly too, right? That’s why we added motorized antennas to reach, so simple emotions can emerge – without a full personality. Plus, they match those O_O emoji eyes!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
So, the thing I’ve come to understand about ships with sails (thanks, Jack Aubrey!) is that Sailing Which direction the wind is coming from can be difficult. Turns out having a boat with two fronts and no back makes this a lot easier.
[ Paper ] from [ 2023 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics ] via [ IEEE Xplore ]
I’m Kento Kawaharazuka from the JSK Robotics Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. I am writing to introduce our human auricular hearing system on the Musashi humanoid muscle. The robot can perform 3D sound source localization using a human-like outer ear structure and an FPGA-based hearing system embedded within it.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Kanto!
The third Cybathlon took place in Zurich on October 25-27, 2024. The Cybathlon is a competition for people with impairment using new robotic technologies to perform activities of daily living. It was invented and started by Professor Robert Rainer in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Races were held in eight disciplines including prosthetic arm and leg, exoskeleton, powered wheelchairs, brain-computer interfaces, robot assistance, vision assistance and functional electrical stimulation bikes.
[ Cybathlon ]
Thanks, Robert!
If you’re going to work on robot dogs, I’m honestly not sure if Purina is the most appropriate place to do it.
[ Michigan Robotics ]
