Video Friday is your weekly selection of the terrible robotics video collected by your friends IEEE spectrum Robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please Send us your events for inclusion.
2025 activate: 23-24 September 2025, San Francisco
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IROS 2025: 19-25 October 2025, Hangzo, China
Enjoy today’s video!
It is ridiculous and I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcunho0cy9q
, Ufi ,
In ICRA 2024, we met Paul Nadan, to know how her loris robot climbs the walls sticking to the rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZTE9CTzy
, CMU ,
If a humanoid robot is going to load my dishwasher, I hope it would have to do so, not everyone like a punished human being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfuzdn4q8
, Shape ,
Humanoid robots have recently achieved impressive progress in locomotion and entire body control, yet they remain constrained in actions that demand rapid interaction with dynamic environment through manipulation. Table tennis gives an example of such a challenge: With the speed of the ball being more than 5 meters/than, players must experience, predict, and act within the sub-second response time, requiring both agility and accuracy. To address this, we present a hierarchical structure for humanoid table tennis that integrates a model-based planner for the ball projection prediction and racket target scheme with the entire-body controller learning a reinforcement that learns a reinforcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tofpkw6d3ge
, Hybrid robotics ,
Despite their promises, today’s biohibrid robots usually predict a cutist assessment of the component by reducing their entire synthetic counterparts and their capacity. Many systems represent seductive evidence of the concept with limited practical appropriateness. Most controlled laboratory are limited to settings and there is a lack of viability in the intricate real -world environment. Developing biohaybrid robots is currently a laborious, Bispok process, and the resulting systems are regularly characterized by insufficiently. Complications between components, interfaces and system performance are poorly understood, interconnected relations are poorly understood, and lack of functioning to direct the reported design of the biohaybrid system. Hybrids arc seeks ideas to address the opportunity: Synthetic and biological components can be integrated to enable biohybrid platforms that improve traditional robotic systems?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bcsdnsgsgsg?
, Darpa ,
Robotic systems will play an important role in future lunar missions, and currently a large deal of research is being conducted in the field. One such project is a cooperation between Sammeler-Key (semi-autonomous micro rover for lunar exploration using Artificial Intelligence), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Applied Sciences Aachen (FH Aachen), Germany. The project focuses on the conceptual design of a semi-late micro rover that is capable of avoiding the lunar nights remaining within the size square of a micro rover. During development, conditions on the moon such as the risk of dust, radiation, and the vacuum of the space are taken into account with a 14-day period of a lunar night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7z5_sm7xa
, DFKI ,
The Korea is a double-hand hydraulic robot on a human-handed developed by the Korea Nuclear Energy Research Institute (KERI) for the Armstrong Dex Disaster Response applications. It is capable of manipulating its own body to the vertical bridge-up and items of more than 50 kg, demonstrating power beyond human abilities. In this test, Armstrong Dex saw in one hand to cut through a thick 40 × 90 mm wood beam. Ari is a physically demanding task that includes repetitive force application, fine trajectory control and real -time coordination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QW5L_Yovz8
, Kerry ,
This robot stole my “Omg Mere Ras” face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox9003uok9s
, Pudu robotics ,
The best way to punch a face on the face is just a big hole where your face should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbxhdskx4g
I want them to call it a Combat Robot, though.
, Unilateral ,
This can actually be fun for a DRC-style phenomenon for quadruple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tfzznhaqs
, Deep robotics ,
CMU researchers are developing new techniques to physically interact with robots who are not able to take care of themselves. These successes are being deployed in the real world, making it possible for individuals with neurological diseases, stroke, multiple sclerosis, ALS and dementia to be able to eat, clean and prepare perfectly on their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvnq0qirVp8
, CMU ,
The adorable manufacturing platforms of Karakol uses robotic weapons to produce large -scale industrial parts with accurate and flexibility. This video explains how Karakol integrates multi-Xis robotics, modular extruders and proprietary software to support production in areas such as aerospace, marine, automotive and architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvscpemw4y
, Cook ,
ICRA 2025 had some robots, as you can expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chyxgtjvn0i
, Letter ,
On June 6, 1990, after the conclusion of the discovery of the planets of the Vyzer, the mission representatives held a news conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, so that the major findings could be summarized and answered questions from the media. In briefing, Vayager’s longtime project scientist Ed Stone, along with the famous science communicator Carl Sagan, also revealed the “Solar Mandal Family Picture” of the mission, including images of six of the eight planets in a mosaic solar division. Carl Sagan was a member of the Voyzer Imaging Team and was instrumental to capture these images and bring them to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mow0mvlpc0
Carl Sagan, Dude. Carl Sagan. The blue dot unveiling was right around 57:00, if you miss it.
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