Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robot videos collected by your friends on IEEE spectrum robotics. We’re also posting a weekly calendar of upcoming bot events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboCup German Open: 12-16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
German Robotics Conference: 13-15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
RoboSoft 2025: 23-26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14-17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19-23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1-6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
RSS 2025: 21-25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
IAS 2025: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY
ICRES 2025: 3-4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8-11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15-18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15-21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
Enjoy today’s videos!
Unitree releases frequent updates almost every month. This time we present to you the smoothest walking and humanoid running in the world. We hope you like it.)
(Unitree)
This is just beautiful.
(Mimus CNK)
There’s a lot to like about the Grain Weevil as an efficient single-task robot, but what I really appreciate here is that the control system is just a remote control and a camera stuck to the top of the bin.
(Cereal Weevil)
This video “A robot arm picks your groceries like a real person” taught me that I’m not a real person.
(Advanced Robotics)
A robot walking like a human walking like what people think a robot walking like a robot.
And that was my favorite line of the week.
(Engineai)
Robots are tools for us to make life easier. But they should also look friendly, right? That’s why we added motorized antennae to Reacha so he could show simple emotions – without a full personality. Plus, it goes well with those bold eyes O_o!
(Pollen Robotics)
So the thing I’ve learned about sailing boats (thanks, Jack Aubrey!) is that sailing downwind can be tricky. It turns out that having a boat with two fronts and no backs makes this a lot easier.
(Paper) from (2023 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatrons) via (IEEE Xplore)
I am Kento Kawaharazuka from the JSK Robotics Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. I’m writing to present our human-mimetic binaural hearing system on the musculoskeletal humanoid Musashi. The robot can perform 3D localization of the sound source using the human-like external ear structure and the FPGA-based auditory system embedded in it.
(paper)
Thanks Kento!
The third CYBATHLON took place in Zurich on 25-27 October 2024. CYBATHLON is a competition for people with disabilities who use new robotic technologies to perform activities of daily living. It was invented and initiated by Professor Robert Riener at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It competed in eight disciplines including prosthetic arms and legs, exoskeletons, electric wheelchairs, brain computer interfaces, robotic assistance, vision assistance and functional electric stimulation bikes.
(kybathlon)
Thanks Robert!
If you’re going to work on robotic dogs, I’m honestly not sure if Purina would be the most or least appropriate place to do it.
(Michigan Robotics)
