Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy Lift Drones

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ICRA 2026: 1– 5 June 2026, VIENNA

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Existing multirotor drones give simpleness, price, and simplicity of procedure; nevertheless, their key constraint is their reduced payload-to-weight proportion, which commonly drops at 1:1 or much less. The DARPA Lift Obstacle intends to smash the hefty lift traffic jam, looking for unique drone styles that can lug hauls greater than 4 times their weight, which would certainly reinvent the means we utilize drones throughout all fields.

[ DARPA ]

Big turning point accomplished! Globe’s very first mass shipment of humanoid robotics has actually finished! Numerous UBTECH Pedestrian S2 have actually been supplied to our companions.

I truly wish that’s not exactly how they’re really delivering their robotics.

[ UBTECH ]

There is definitely no factor to offer robots hands if you can simply educate them to lasso things rather.

[ ArcLab ]

Saddle Creek released Carter in its order gratification procedure for a charm customer. It assists to automate and enhance lug shipment procedures in between several handling and labeling lines and greater than 20 marked drop-off factors. In this ability, Carter works as an adaptable, non-integrated “digital conveyor” that improves product circulation without needing taken care of framework.

[ Robust.ai ]

This is our newest service an airborne– ground robotic group, the very first time a language– vision power structure accomplishes long-horizon navigating and adjustment on the actual UAV + quadruped making use of just 2D video cameras. The write-up is released open-access in Advanced Intelligent Equipments.

[ DRAGON Lab ]

Many Thanks, Moju!

I am rather certain that you need to not utilize a quadrupedal robot to deliver your youngster. Yet just rather sure, not absolutely particular.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

Structure Behavioral Structure Designs (BFMs) for humanoid robotics has the possible to combine varied control jobs under a solitary, promptable generalist plan. Nevertheless, existing techniques are either solely released on substitute humanoid personalities, or specialized to particular jobs such as monitoring. We suggest BFM-Zero, a structure that discovers a reliable common concealed depiction that installs movements, objectives, and compensates right into a typical room, allowing a solitary plan to be motivated for several downstream jobs without re-training.

[ BFM-Zero ]

Welcome to the extremely, extremely future of manual work.

[ AgileX ]

MOMO (Mobile Item Control Driver) has actually been just one of KIMLAB’s crucial robotics because its advancement regarding 2 years earlier and has actually included as a major star in numerous of our video clips. The style and capabilities of MOMO were lately released in IEEE Robotics & Automation Publication.

[ Paper ] through [ KIMLAB ]

We are thrilled regarding our brand-new enhancement to our robotic fleet! As a common source for our professor, this robotic will certainly promote several research study tasks within our institute that target substantial future financing. Our first emphasis for this robotic will certainly get on a farming application however we have large prepare for the robotic in human-robot communication jobs.

[ Ingenuity Labs ]

The good feature of robotics that select grapes in wineries is that they do not simply consume the grapes, like I do.

[ Extend Robotics ]

Just how mobile of a mobile manipulator do you require?

[ Clearpath Robotics ]

Robotics teacher, Dr. Christian Hubicki, speaks about the NEO humanoid statement on October 29th, 2025. While discussing the technological components and item preparedness, he declines to reveal any type of feeling whatsoever.

[ Optimal Robotics Lab ]