Robotic Movies: Humanoid Robotic Boxing, Rodney Brooks, and Extra

Video Friday is your weekly choice 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.

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, THE NETHERLANDS

CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN

CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL

World Robotic Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN

IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA

Take pleasure in at present’s movies!

[ Unitree ]

A staff of scientists and college students from Delft College of Know-how within the Netherlands( TU Delft) has taken first place on the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi – a global race that pushes the boundaries of bodily synthetic intelligence, difficult groups to fly absolutely autonomous drones utilizing solely a single digital camera. The TU Delft drone competed in opposition to 13 autonomous drones and even human drone racing champions, utilizing modern strategies to coach deep neural networks for high-performance management.

[ TU Delft ]

RAI’s Extremely Cell Car (UMV) is studying some new methods!

[ RAI Institute ]

With 28 shifting joints (20 QDD actuators + 8 servo motors), Cosmo can stroll with its two toes with a velocity of as much as 1 m/s (0.5 m/s nominal) and steadiness itself even when pushed. Coordinated with the movement of its head, fingers, legs and arms, Cosmo has a loud and expressive voice for efficient interplay with people. Cosmo speaks in canned phrases from the 90’s cartoon he originates from and his speech could be absolutely localized in any language.

[ RoMeLa ]

We wrote about Parallel Methods again in January of 2022, and it’s good to see that their artistic tackle autonomous rail continues to be shifting alongside.

[ Parallel Systems ]

RoboCake is prepared. This edible robotic cake is the results of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Know-how in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Know-how) and pastry cooks and meals scientists from EHL in Lausanne. It takes the type of a robotic marriage ceremony cake, adorned with two gummy robotic bears and edible darkish chocolate batteries that energy the candles.

[ EPFL ]

ROBOTERA’s absolutely self-developed five-finger dexterous hand has upgraded its abilities, reworking into an esports hand within the blink of an eye fixed! The XHAND1 options 12 energetic levels of freedom, pioneering an industry-first absolutely direct-drive joint design. It presents distinctive flexibility and sensitivity, effortlessly dealing with precision duties like finger opposition, selecting up comfortable objects, and grabbing playing cards. Moreover, it delivers highly effective grip energy with a most payload of practically 25 kilograms, making it adaptable to a variety of advanced software situations.

[ ROBOTERA ]

Witness the way forward for industrial automation as Prolong Robotics trials their cutting-edge humanoid robotic in Leyland factories. On this groundbreaking video, see how the robotic skillfully connects a grasp service disconnect unit—a important activity in manufacturing unit operations. Watch onsite staff seamlessly collaborate with the robotic utilizing an intuitive XR (prolonged actuality) interface, mixing human experience with robotic precision.

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I form of like the thought of getting a cellular robotic that lives in my storage and manages the charging and cleansing of my automotive.

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How can we guarantee robots utilizing basis fashions, reminiscent of giant language fashions (LLMs), gained’t “hallucinate” when executing duties in advanced, beforehand unseen environments? Our Protected and Assured Basis Robots for Open Environments (SAFRON) Superior Analysis Idea (ARC) seeks concepts to verify robots behave solely as directed & supposed.

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What if doing all your chores have been as straightforward as flipping a change? On this speak and dwell demo, roboticist and founding father of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robotic designed that can assist you out round the home. Watch as NEO reveals off its potential to hoover, water crops and maintain you firm, whereas Børnich tells the story of its improvement — and shares a imaginative and prescient for robotic helpers that might unlock your time to deal with what really issues.

[ 1X ] by way of [ TED ]

Rodney Brooks gave a keynote on the Stanford HAI spring convention on Robotics in a Human-Centered World.

There are a bunch of fantastic talks from this convention on YouTube on the hyperlink beneath, however I feel this panel is very good, as a dialogue of going from from analysis to real-world affect.