Video Friday: Extra Pleased Holidays!

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

Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 Might 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE

ICRA 2024: 13–17 Might 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN

Get pleasure from right this moment’s movies!

Wishing you and your family members merry Christmas, completely happy holidays, and a cheerful New 12 months from everybody on the Autonomous Programs Lab at ETH Zürich!

[ ASL ]

Merry Christmas and sustainable 2024 from VUB-imec Brubotics & Fysc!

[ BruBotics ]

Thanks, Bram!

Embark on MOMO (Cell Object Manipulation Operator)’s thrilling quest to ignite pleasure and pleasure! Watch as MOMO skillfully locations the tree topper, guaranteeing that each KIMLAB member’s vacation season is full of happiness and brightness. Pleased Holidays!

[ KIMLAB ]

Merry Christmas from AgileX Robotics and our little wheeled bipedal robotic, T-Rex! As we step into 2024, might the enjoyment of the season accompany you all year long. Right here’s to a festive vacation full of heat, laughter, and modern adventures!

[ AgileX Robotics ]

To have a good time this superb yr, we’d prefer to share a particular vacation video showcasing our most requested demo! We hope it brings you a smile as brilliant because the lights of the season.

[ Flexiv ]

The Robotnik group continues to be working to make even smarter, extra autonomous and extra environment friendly cellular robotics options out there to you in 2024. Merry Christmas!

[ Robotnik ]

Season’s Greetings from ABB Robotics!

[ ABB ]

If you happen to have been at ICRA you bought a sneak peak at this, however right here’s a stunning Spot tango from the AI Institute.

[ The Institute ]

CL-1 is without doubt one of the few humanoid robots around the globe that achieves dynamic stair climbing based mostly on real-time terrain notion, primarily because of LimX Dynamics’ superior movement management and AI algorithms, together with proprietary high-performing actuators and {hardware} system.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

We wrote about Parallel Programs a pair years in the past, and right here’s a short replace.

[ Parallel Systems ]

After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is finding out rocks that present a number of eras within the historical past of a river delta billions of years previous. Scientists are investigating this area of Mars, often known as Jezero Crater, to see if they will discover proof of historical life recorded within the rocks. Perseverance challenge scientist Ken Farley supplies a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.

[ NASA ]

It’s been many, a few years since we’ve seen a brand new steampunk robotic from I-Wei Huang, but it surely was definitely worth the wait!

[ CrabFu ]

Okay apparently this can be a loop of Digit standing in entrance of a fireside for 10 hours, slightly than a really spectacular demonstration of battery life.