Video Friday: Happy Robot Halloween!

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ICRA 2026: 1– 5 June 2026, VIENNA

Delight in today’s video clips!

Pleased Halloween from UCL!

[ University College London ]

Pleased Halloween from KIMLAB!

[ Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab ]

Pleased Halloween from the DRAGON Lab!

[ DRAGON Lab, University of Tokyo ]

Many Thanks, Moju!

Pleased Halloween from Agility Robotics!

[ Agility Robotics ]

Pleased Halloween from HEBI Robotics!

[ HEBI Robotics ]

You can currently pay 1X $500/mo to accumulate information in your house.

And it has to do with what you would certainly anticipate:

[ 1X ] using [ WSJ ]

At our examination stockroom, we recreate our clients’ incoming procedures, from the dock arrangement and conveyors, to the products and past. Tip inside our Stretch screening center to find out about the the current advancements in stockroom automation and check out exactly how we guarantee durable, reputable efficiency in the real life.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

Well this is simply imply. Essential, however imply.

[ Istituto Italiano de Tecnologia ]

SpikeATac is a a multimodal responsive finger incorporating a taxelized and extremely delicate vibrant action (PVDF) with a fixed transduction approach (capacitive) for multimodal touch picking up. Called for its’ spiky ‘action, SpikeATac’s multitaxel PVDF movie supplies quickly, delicate vibrant signals to the really beginning and splitting of get in touch with, supplying the capacity to quit swiftly and naturally when realizing vulnerable, deformable things.

[ ROAM Lab, Columbia University ]

Efficiently incorporating varied sensory depictions is critical for durable robot adjustment. Nonetheless, the regular method of function concatenation is commonly suboptimal: leading techniques such as vision can bewilder sporadic however vital signals like touch in contact-rich jobs, and monolithic styles can not flexibly include brand-new or absent techniques without re-training. Our approach factorizes the plan right into a collection of diffusion versions, each specialized for a solitary depiction (e.g., vision or touch), and utilizes a router network that discovers agreement weights to adaptively incorporate their payments, making it possible for step-by-step combination of brand-new depictions.

[ GitHub ]

Many Thanks, Haonan!

General-purpose robotics ought to have human-like mastery and dexterity to carry out jobs with the exact same adaptability as us. A human-like type variable additional allows using huge datasets of human-hand communications. Nonetheless, the key traffic jam in dexterous adjustment exists not just in software program however probably a lot more in equipment. We offer the open-source whale hand, a dependable and humanlike 17-DoF tendon-driven robot hand with incorporated responsive sensing units, totally put together in much less than 8 hours and developed for a product price listed below 2,000 CHF.

[ ORCA ]

College of Chicago computer system researcher Sarah Sebo is configuring robotics to offer compassionate actions and carry out nonverbal social hints like responding to much better develop trust fund and connection with people. The objective is to establish robotics that can enhance efficiency in human-robot teams, such as boosting discovering results for kids.

[ University of Chicago ]

DJI has a robot vacuum currently, which is great. As for I can construct, we have actually gotten to the factor where practically every robotic vacuum cleaner is (for much better or even worse) simply that: penalty.

[ DJI ]

This ICRA 2025 keynote is from Angela Schoellig at Technical College of Munich, on “Powering Robotics with AI.”

[ ICRA 2025 ]

This Carnegie Mellon College, Robotics Institute (CMU RI) Workshop is from Nancy Pollard, on “Taking Mastery to Robotic Hands in the Real Life.”

Dexterous adjustment is a grand obstacle of robotics, and great adjustment abilities are needed for lots of robotics applications that we picture. In this summary talk, I will certainly review my sight of some significant aspects that add to mastery and talk about exactly how we can include them right into our robotics and systems.

[ CMU RI ]