Video Friday: Cyborg Beetles May Speed Disaster Response One Day

Video Clip Friday is your regular choice of outstanding robotics video clips, accumulated by your close friends at IEEE Range robotics. We likewise publish a regular schedule of upcoming robotics occasions for the following couple of months. Please send us your events for addition.

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Appreciate today’s video clips!

Usual beetles outfitted with silicon chip knapsacks can eventually be made use of to aid search and rescue staffs situate survivors within hours rather than days complying with catastrophes such as structure and mine collapses. The College of Queensland’s Dr. Thang Vo-Doan and Research Study Aide Lachlan Fitzgerald have actually shown they can from another location direct darkling beetles (Zophobas morio) fitted with the packs through computer game controllers.

[ Paper ] through [ University of Queensland ]

Many Thanks, Thang!

This is our most current job regarding six-doF hand-based teleoperation for omnidirectional airborne robotics, which reveals an instinctive teleoperation system for sophisticated airborne robotic. This job has actually existed in 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Meeting on Intelligent Robots and Equipment (IROS 2025).

[ DRAGON Lab ]

Many Thanks, Moju!

Pretty sure we have actually seen this LimX humanoid in the past, and we’re seeing it once more today, yet hey, the very first disclose is simply in advance!

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Many Thanks, Jinyan!

Soft robotic arms utilize soft products and frameworks to imitate the passive conformity of organic arms that flex and prolong. Below, we demonstrate how counting on pattern frameworks rather than intrinsic product residential properties enables soft robot arms to continue to be certified while continually sending torque to their setting. We show a soft robotic arm made from a set of mechanical metamaterials that work as certified constant-velocity joints.

[ Paper ] through [ Transformative Robotics Lab ]

Offering a system is actually tough, yet I wish K-Scale can be successful with their open resource humanoid.

[ K-Scale ]

MIT CSAIL scientists consolidated GenAI and a physics simulation engine to fine-tunerobot designs The outcome: a device that out-jumped a robotic developed by human beings.

[ MIT News ]

ARMstrong Dex is a human-scale dual-arm hydraulic robotic under advancement at the Korea Atomic Power Research Study Institute (KAERI) for catastrophe feedback applications. Created with measurements comparable to a grown-up human, it integrates human-equivalent reach and mastery with pressure outcome that surpasses human physical abilities, allowing it to do severe sturdy jobs in dangerous settings.

[ Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute ]

This is a demo of in-hand item turning with Torobo Hand. Torobo Hand is designed in simulation, and a control plan is educated within numerous hours utilizing massive parallel support knowing in Isaac Sim. The qualified plan can be carried out with no extra training in both a various simulator (MuJoCo) and on the genuine Torobo Hand.

[ Tokyo Robotics ]

Given That 2005, Ekso Bionics has actually been creating and making exoskeleton bionic devices that can be strapped on as wearable robotics to improve the stamina, wheelchair, and endurance of soldiers, people, and employees. These robotics have a selection of applications in the clinical, army, commercial, and customer markets, aiding rehab people stroll once more and employees maintain their stamina.

[ Ekso Bionics ]

Funded by Raytheon, an RTX service, the 2025 eastern shore Autonomous Lorry Competitors was held at XElevate in Northern Virginia. Pupil Design Teams from 5 colleges took part in a two-semester job to layout, establish, incorporate, and contend 2 independent automobiles that can recognize, connect, and provide a clinical set with the very best precision and time.

[ RTX ]

This panel is from the Humanoids Top in London: “Buying the Humanoids Robotics Community– a VC Viewpoint.”

[ Humanoids Summit ]