Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
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
Enjoy today’s videos!
It’s me. But we can all relate to this child android robot struggling to stay awake.
[ Osaka University ]
For 2025, the RoboCup SPL plans an interesting new technical challenge: Kicking a rolling ball! The velocity and start position of the ball can vary and the goal is to kick the ball straight and far. In this video, we show our results from our first testing session.
[ Team B-Human ]
When you think of a prosthetic hand you probably think of something similar to Luke Skywalker’s robotic hand from Star Wars, or even Furiosa’s multi-fingered claw from Mad Max. The reality is a far cry from these fictional hands: upper limb prostheses are generally very limited in what they can do, and how we can control them to do it. In this project, we investigate non-humanoid prosthetic hand design, exploring a new ideology for the design of upper limb prostheses that encourages alternative approaches to prosthetic hands. In this wider, more open design space, can we surpass humanoid prosthetic hands?
Thanks, Digby!
A novel three-dimensional (3D) Minimally Actuated Serial Robot (MASR), actuated by a robotic motor. The robotic motor is composed of a mobility motor (to advance along the links) and an actuation motor [to] move the joints.
[ Zarrouk Lab ]
This year, Franka Robotics team hit the road, the skies and the digital space to share ideas, showcase our cutting-edge technology, and connect with the brightest minds in robotics across the globe. Here is 2024 video recap, capturing the events and collaborations that made this year unforgettable!
[ Franka Robotics ]
Aldebaran has sold an astonishing number of robots this year.
[ Aldebaran ]
The advancement of modern robotics starts at its foundation: the gearboxes. Ailos aims to define how these industries operate with increased precision, efficiency and versatility. By innovating gearbox technology across diverse fields, Ailos is catalyzing the transition towards the next wave of automation, productivity and agility.
[ Ailos Robotics ]
Many existing obstacle avoidance algorithms overlook the crucial balance between safety and agility, especially in environments of varying complexity. In our study, we introduce an obstacle avoidance pipeline based on reinforcement learning. This pipeline enables drones to adapt their flying speed according to the environmental complexity. After minimal fine-tuning, we successfully deployed our network on a real drone for enhanced obstacle avoidance.
[ MAVRL via Github ]
Robot-assisted feeding promises to empower people with motor impairments to feed themselves. However, research often focuses on specific system subcomponents and thus evaluates them in controlled settings. This leaves a gap in developing and evaluating an end-to-end system that feeds users entire meals in out-of-lab settings. We present such a system, collaboratively developed with community researchers.
A drone’s eye-view reminder that fireworks explode in 3D.
[ Team BlackSheep ]
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