Robotic Movies: Weekly Highlights and Improvements

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

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

CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA

ACTUATE 2025: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO

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

Get pleasure from at this time’s movies!

Columbia College researchers introduce a course of that permits machines to “develop” bodily by integrating elements from their environment or from different robots, demonstrating a step towards self-sustaining robotic ecologies.

[Robot Metabolism] by way of [Columbia]

We challenged ourselves to see simply how far we may push Digit’s capability to stabilize itself in response to a disturbance. Using state-of-the-art AI expertise and strong bodily intelligence, Digit can adapt to substantial disruptions, all with out the usage of visible notion.

[Agility Robotics]

We’re presenting the Determine 03 (F.03) battery—a major development in our core humanoid robotic expertise roadmap.

The hassle that was put into security for this battery is spectacular. However I might be aware two issues: The battery life is “5 hours of run time at peak efficiency” with out saying what “peak efficiency” truly means, and 2-kilowatt quick cost nonetheless means over an hour to completely cost.

[Figure]

Nicely this can be a nifty thought.

[UBTECH]

PAPRLE is a plug-and-play robotic limb surroundings for versatile configuration and management of robotic limbs throughout functions. With PAPRLE, customers can use numerous configurations of leader-follower pair for teleoperation. Within the video, we present a number of teleoperation examples supported by PAPRLE.

[PAPRLE]

Thanks, Joohyung!

At all times good to see a robotic with a rigorously thought-out industrial use case by which it may simply do robotic stuff like a robotic.

[Cohesive Robotics]

Thanks, David!

We’re thinking about deploying autonomous legged robots in numerous environments, resembling industrial amenities and forests. As a part of the DigiForest mission, we’re engaged on new techniques to autonomously construct forest inventories with legged platforms, which we’ve got deployed within the UK, Finland, and Switzerland.

[Oxford]

Thanks, Matias!

[Paper]

Thanks, Bram!

The “Wonderful Hand” from Pollen Robotics prices lower than $250.

[Pollen]

Welcome to our Unboxing Day! After months of ready, our humanoid robotic has lastly arrived at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart.

I used to take stretching courses from a girl who may do that backwards in 5.43 seconds.

[Fraunhofer]

On the Changchun cease of the VOYAGEX Music Competition on July 12, PNDbotics’ full-sized humanoid robotic Adam took the stage as a keytar participant with the well-known Chinese language musician Hu Yutong’s band.

[PNDbotics]

Materials motion is the invisible infrastructure of hospitals, airports, cities–on a regular basis life. We construct robots that help the folks doing this important, typically neglected work. Watch our CEO Brad Porter mirror on what impressed Cobot.

[Cobot]

Sure please.

[ Pollen ]

I feel I may get to the purpose of being okay with this dwelling in my toilet.

[Paper]

Due to its social notion, excessive expressiveness, and out-of-the-box integration, TIAGo Head affords the final word human-robot interplay expertise.

[PAL Robotics]

Sneak peek: Our No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) Defiant unmanned floor vessel is designed to function for as much as a 12 months at sea with out human intervention. In-water testing is making ready it for an prolonged at-sea demonstration of reliability and endurance.

Wonderful title for any ship.

[DARPA]

On the twenty second Worldwide Convention on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2025), highschool pupil and robotics researcher Ethan Hong was honored as a Particular Invited Speaker for the convention banquet and “Robots With Us” panel. On this heartfelt and provoking speak, Ethan shares the story behind Meals Angel—a meals supply robotic he designed and constructed to help folks experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Motivated by the rising crises of homelessness and meals insecurity, Ethan requested a easy however profound query: “Why not use robots to assist the unhoused?”

[UR2025]