Video Friday: A Soft Robot Companion

Video Clip Friday is your regular option of remarkable robotics video clips, gathered by your good friends at IEEE Range robotics. We likewise upload an once a week schedule of upcoming robotics occasions for the following couple of months. Please send us your events for addition.

ACTUATE 2025: 23– 24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO

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

Delight in today’s video clips!

Fourier’s very first Care-bot GR-3. This full-size “treatment crawler” is developed as an interactive buddy. Its soft-touch external covering and multimodal psychological communication system bring the idea of “cozy technology friendship” to life.

I such as that it’s soft to the touch, although I’m not exactly sure that urging touch is risk-free. Advises me a bit of Valkyrie, where NASA placed a great deal of believed right into the soft elements of the robotic.

[ Fourier ]

TAKE MY CASH

This 112-gram mini air car (MAV) includes collapsible prop arms that can secure right into a portable rectangle-shaped account equivalent to the dimension of a mobile phone. The car can be released by merely tossing it airborne, whereupon the arms will certainly unravel and autonomously support to a floating state. Several trip examinations showed the capacity of the responses controller to support the MAV based upon various first problems, consisting of rolling prices of as much as 2,500 levels per secondly.

[ AVFL ]

The United State Naval Lab (NRL), in partnership with NASA, is progressing area robotics by releasing reinforcement-learning formulas onto Astrobee, a free-flying robot aide aboard the International Spaceport station. This video clip highlights just how NRL scientists are leveraging expert system to allow robotics to find out, adjust, and carry out jobs autonomously. By incorporating support discovering, Astrobee can boost ability to move and maximize power usage.

[ NRL ]

On a daily basis I’m scuttlin.’

[ Ground Control Robotics ]

Count on is constructed. Every component of our robotic Proxie– from wheels to eyes– is developed with rely on mind. Cobot chief executive officer Brad Concierge clarifies the intent behind its layout.

[ Cobot ]

Stage 1: Develop great deals of tiny quadruped robotics. Stage 2:? Stage 3: Revenue!

[ DEEP Robotics ]

LAPP United States partnered with Corvus Robotics to resolve an enduring supply-chain obstacle: labor-intensive, error-prone supply checking.

[ Corvus ]

I’m rather certain that 95 percent of all scientific research contains relocating percentages of fluid from one container to one more.

[ Flexiv ]

Raffaello D’Andrea, spoke with at ICRA 2025.

[ Verity ]

Tessa Lau, spoke with at ICRA 2025.

[ Dusty Robotics ]

Ever before intended to look inside the mind behind an advanced humanoid robotic? In this unique episode, we have Dr. Aaron Zhang, the item supervisor at LimX Characteristics, for an unique deep study the LimX Oli.

[ LimX Dynamics ]