Video Friday: Agile Humanoids

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

RoboCup German Open: 12– 16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY

German Robotics Conference: 13– 15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY

European Robotics Forum: 25– 27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY

RoboSoft 2025: 23– 26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

ICUAS 2025: 14– 17 Might 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC

ICRA 2025: 19– 23 Might 2025, ATLANTA, GA

London Humanoids Summit: 29– 30 Might 2025, LONDON

IEEE RCAR 2025: 1– 6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN

2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16– 18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX

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

Take pleasure in today’s video clips!

Humanoid robotics hold the capacity for exceptional convenience for carrying out human-like, whole-body abilities. ASAP makes it possible for very dexterous activities that were formerly tough to accomplish, showing the capacity of delta activity discovering in connecting simulation and real-world characteristics. These outcomes recommend an encouraging sim-to-real instructions for creating much more meaningful and dexterous humanoids.

[ ASAP ] from [ Carnegie Mellon University ] and [ Nvidia ]

Big Information: Swiss-Mile is currently RIVR! We’re enjoyed introduce our brand-new identification as RIVR, mirroring our advancement from a college spin-off to an international leader in Physical AI and robotics. In 2025, we’ll be releasing our groundbreaking wheeled-legged robotics with significant logistics providers for last-mile shipment to establish brand-new criteria for performance and sustainability.

[ RIVR ]

Robotics is among the most effective means to lower employee direct exposure to safety and security dangers. Nevertheless, among the greatest obstacles to taking on robotics in these markets is the obstacle of browsing the tough surface located in these atmospheres. UCR’s robotics browse tough surface, debris-strewn floorings, and restricted areas without calling for center alterations, interrupting existing operations, or jeopardizing routines, dramatically enhancing performance while maintaining employees secure.

[ UCR ]

This paper presents a safety and security filter to guarantee accident evasion for multirotor airborne robotics. The suggested approach enables computational scalability versus countless restraints and, hence, intricate scenes with many challenges. We experimentally show its capability to ensure the safety and security of a quadrotor with an onboard LiDAR, running in both interior and outside messy atmospheres versus both ignorant and adversarial small plans.

[ Autonomous Robots Lab ]

Many thanks, Kostas!

Brightpick Giraffe is an independent mobile robotic (AMR) with the ability of getting to elevations of 20 feet (6 m), causing 3 times the storage facility storage space thickness contrasted to hand-operated procedures.

[ Giraffe ] by means of[ TechCrunch ]

IROS 2025, coming this loss in Hangzhou, China.

[ IROS 2025 ]

This charming lil man is from a “Weak Robotics Exhibit” in Japan.

[ RobotStart ]

I see no worry with dishonesty by means of facilities to make autonomous vehicles much more trustworthy.

[ Oak Ridge National Laboratory ]

I am not fine with just how this coffee is managed. Neither is my editor.

[ Qb Robotics ]

Non-prehensile pressing to relocate and re-orient challenge an objective is a flexible loco-manipulation ability. In this paper, we establish a learning-based controller for a mobile manipulator to relocate an unidentified challenge a preferred setting and yaw positioning via a series of pressing activities. With our considerable equipment experiments, we reveal that the strategy shows high toughness versus unidentified items of various masses, products, dimensions, and forms.

[ Paper ] from [ ETH Zurich and Instituto Italiano de Technologia ]

Accuracy, On, and Maersk have actually worked together to connect the void in between the physical and electronic supply chain– piloting RFID-powered self-governing stock monitoring at a Maersk center in The golden state. With RFID assimilation, Accuracy presses stock exposure to extraordinary degrees.

[ Verity ]

Somehow, KUKA is declaring its dedication to ecological obligation and variety.

[ KUKA ]

Right here’s a panel from the current Humanoids Top on generative AI for robotics, that includes panelists from OpenAI and Dexterity Robotics. Simply do not mind the mediator, he’s a little a geek.

[ Humanoids Summit ]