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Video Friday is your weekly number of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Could 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC

ICRA 2025: 19–23 Could 2025, ATLANTA, GA

London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Could 2025, LONDON

IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN

2025 Power Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX

RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer season Faculty: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA

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

RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS

Get pleasure from as we speak’s movies!

This robotic can stroll, with out electronics, and solely with the addition of a cartridge of compressed fuel, proper off the 3D-printer. It can be printed in a single go, from one materials. Researchers from the College of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robotic in a complicated on-line publication within the journal Superior Clever Programs. They used the best know-how out there: a desktop 3D-printer and an off-the-shelf printing materials. This design strategy is just not solely strong, it’s also low-cost—every robotic prices about $20 to fabricate.

And particulars!

[ Paper ] through [ University of California San Diego ]

Why would you like a humanoid robotic to stroll like a human? In order that it doesn’t look bizarre, I assume, but it surely’s onerous to think about {that a} system that doesn’t have the identical association of joints and muscle mass that we do will transfer optimally by simply making an attempt to imitate us.

[ Figure ]

I don’t know the way it manages it, however this little smooth robotic worm by some means strikes with an unbelievable quantity of character.

Gentle actuators are vital for enabling smooth robots, medical gadgets, and haptic programs. Many smooth actuators, nonetheless, require energy to carry a configuration and depend on onerous circuitry for management, limiting their potential purposes. On this work, the primary smooth electromagnetic system is demonstrated for externally-controlled bistable actuation or self-regulated astable oscillation.

[ Paper ] through [ Georgia Tech ]

Thanks, Ellen!

A 180-degree pelvis rotation would put the “break” in “breakdancing” if this have been a human doing it.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

My colleagues have been impressed by this cooking robotic, however that could be as a result of journalists are at all times impressed by free meals.

[ Posha ]

That is our newest work a couple of hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robotic referred to as SPIDAR, which exhibits distinctive and complicated locomotion kinds in each aerial and terrestrial domains together with thrust-assisted crawling movement. This work has been offered within the Worldwide Symposium of Robotics Analysis (ISRR) 2024.

[ Paper ] through [ Dragon Lab ]

Thanks, Moju!

This contemporary, newly captured video from Unitree’s testing grounds showcases the breakneck velocity of humanoid intelligence development. Daily brings one thing thrilling!

[ Unitree ]

There needs to be extra robots which you could experience round on.

[ AgileX Robotics ]

There needs to be extra robots that put on hats at work.

[ Ugo ]

iRobot, who pioneered big docks for robotic vacuums, is now transferring away from big docks for robotic vacuums.

[ iRobot ]

There’s a well-known experiment the place should you put a useless fish in present, it begins swimming, simply due to its biomechanical design. By some means, you are able to do the identical factor with an unactuated quadruped robotic on a treadmill.

[ Delft University of Technology ]

Mush! Narrowly!

[ Hybrid Robotics ]

It’s freaking me out just a little bit that this couple is outwardly wandering round an enormous mall that’s populated solely by robots and 0 different people.

[ MagicLab ]

I’m making an attempt, I actually am, however the yellow is simply not working for me.

[ Kepler ]

By having Stretch tackle the bodily demanding process of unloading trailers stacked flooring to ceiling with bins, Hole Inc has decreased accidents, lowered turnover, and watched staff get enthusiastic about automation supposed to maintain them protected.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to higher perceive the previous and current habitability of the Purple Planet. Of specific curiosity to its search are natural molecules: the constructing blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone referred to as “Cumberland,” the biggest organics but found on Mars.

[ NASA ]

This College of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar is from Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley, on Robotics Basis Fashions.

Common-purpose pretrained fashions have remodeled pure language processing, laptop imaginative and prescient, and different fields. In precept, such approaches needs to be excellent in robotics: since gathering massive quantities of knowledge for any given robotic platform and software is more likely to be tough, basic pretrained fashions that present broad capabilities current a perfect recipe to allow robotic studying at scale for real-world purposes.
From the angle of basic AI analysis, such approaches additionally provide a promising and intriguing strategy to a number of the grandest AI challenges: if large-scale coaching on embodied expertise can present various bodily capabilities, this is able to shed mild not solely on the sensible questions round designing broadly succesful robots, however the foundations of located problem-solving, bodily understanding, and resolution making. Nonetheless, realizing this potential requires dealing with quite a lot of difficult obstacles. What information lets use to coach robotic basis fashions? What would be the coaching goal? How ought to alignment or post-training be finished? On this discuss, I’ll talk about how we will strategy a few of these challenges.

[ University of Toronto ]