Video Friday: Happy Holidays!

We’ve got even more holiday bot videos for you, so we’ll be updating our regular mid-week Friday video. Enjoy it!

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.

ICRA 2025: 19-23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA

Enjoy today’s videos!

We wish you a holiday full of light and laughter as you transition into the new year!

(Boston Dynamics)

The TechUnited team wishes you happy holidays and an incredible start to the new year!

(Tech United Eindhoven)

The Safebot team (Brubotics VUB & imec) wishes you happy holidays and a successful year!

(BruBotics)

Thanks Bram!

The Humanoid Robotics Lab at the University of Bonn wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!

(Humanoids Bonn)

Merry Christmas from PRISMA Lab!

(PRISMA Lab)

At FZI, it’s not just work for our robots, they also join our festivities. Our shy robot Spot came across this year’s FZI Winter Market…, a fun event for robots and humans alike. Will he find his place? We sure hope so, because Feuerzangenbowle tastes so much better after clinking glasses with friends drinking hot oil.

(FZI)

Thanks George!

The Fraunhofer IOSB Autonomous Robotic Systems Research Group wishes you a Merry Christmas full of joy, peace and robotic wonder!

(Fraunhofer IOSB)

Thanks, Janko!

There’s some exciting action in this Christmas video from the PUT Mobile Robotics Laboratory, and the trick to light up the tree is particularly clever. Enjoy it!

(PUT MRL)

Thanks Dominic!

(Norlab)

The Learning Systems and Robotics Lab has made several holiday videos with robots based on research they are doing:

(Crowd Navigation)

(We learn with contacts)

(Music in Motion)

Thanks Sepehr!

Robots on a Gifting Mission: Christmas Greetings from the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center!

(DFKI)

Happy Holidays from Clearpath Robotics! Our workshop has been busy lately with lots of interesting projects and integrations just in time for the holidays! The TurtleBot 4 elves helped load the sled with lots of presents. The Rudolph Husky A300 made its way through the snow so our Ridgeback friend with the handling arm and tentacle could get his gift.

(free path)

2024 was an eventful year for us at PAL Robotics, full of milestones and memories. With the holiday season approaching, we’d like to take a moment and THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for being a part of our journey!

(PAL Robotics)

Thanks, Rugilė!

In Santa’s shop, so bright and neat, a robot marched on metal legs. With tinsel arms and screws so tight it trimmed a tree all night. She hummed a carol and squealed with cheers, “We’re processing joy—here’s Christmas!” But when he tried to dance gracefully, the lights got tangled around his face. “Error detected!” it turned, then tripped and fell to the ground. All the elves laughed, “You did your part – a clumsy robot, but with a heart!” The ArtiMinds team would like to thank all partners and customers for an exciting 2024. We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year – stay healthy.

(ArtiMinds)

Thanks to FANUC CRX collaborative robots, Santa and his elves can enjoy the festive season knowing that the big night’s work is done.

(FANUC)

It might not technically be a vacation video until you think about how all those things you ordered online actually get to you.

(Agility Robotics)

Happy Holidays from Quanser, we wish you happy holidays and a happy 2025!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUkxkMqm3c

(Quanser)

Season’s Greetings from the Kawasaki Robotics USA Team! This season we build blocks of memories filled with endless joy and make our wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. May the coming year be full of opportunities and success. From our team to yours, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season surrounded by loved ones and filled with joy and laughter.

(Kawasaki Robotics)

Robotics students at Queen’s University’s Ingenuity Labs Research Institute put together a 4K Holiday Robotics Lab Fireplace video, and unlike most fireplace videos, things actually happen in this one.

(Ingenuity Labs)

Thanks Joshua!