Video Friday: Jet-Powered Humanoid Robot Lifts Off

Video Clip Friday is your once a week choice of remarkable robotics video clips, gathered by your good 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.

Table of Contents

RSS 2025: 21– 25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer School: 21– 27 June 2025, GENEVA

IAS 2025: 30 June– 4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY

ICRES 2025: 3– 4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL

IEEE World Haptics: 8– 11 July 2025, SUWON, SOUTH KOREA

IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15– 18 July 2025, PARIS

RoboCup 2025: 15– 21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL

RO-MAN 2025: 25– 29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS

CLAWAR 2025: 5– 7 September 2025, SHENZHEN

CoRL 2025: 27– 30 September 2025, SEOUL

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September– 2 October 2025, SEOUL

World Robot Summit: 10– 12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN

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

Delight in today’s video clips!

This is the very first effective upright launch of a jet-powered flying humanoid robotic, established by Artificial and Mechanical Knowledge (AMI) at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). The robotic raised ~ 50 centimeters off the ground while keeping vibrant security, many thanks to innovative AI-based control systems and wind resistant modeling.

We will certainly have a lot more on this in the coming weeks!

[Nature] by means of [IIT]

As a very first step towards our goal of releasing general-purpose robotics, we are pressing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI designs can attain in the real life. We have actually been educating designs and assessing their capacities for dexterous sensorimotor plans throughout various personifications, settings, and physical communications. We’re sharing ability demos on jobs emphasizing various elements of adjustment: great electric motor control, spatial and temporal accuracy, generalization throughout robotics and setups, and toughness to outside disruptions.

[Generalist AI]

Many Thanks, Noah!

Ground Control Robotics is presenting SCUTTLE, our most recent lengthen multilegged system for movement anywhere!

[Ground Control Robotics]

Teleoperation has actually been around for some time, however what hasn’t been is accurate, real-time pressure feedback.That’s where Flexiv action in to tremble points up. Currently, whether you’re throughout the space or around the world, you can experience smooth, high-fidelity remote adjustment with a feeling of touch.

This kind of point typically takes some human training, for which you would certainly be finest offered by robot arms withprecise, real-time force feedback Hmm, I question where you would certainly locate those …?

[Flexiv]

The 1X Globe Version is a data-driven simulator for humanoid robotics developed with a based understanding of physics. It enables us to anticipate– or “visualize”– the results of NEO’s activities prior to they’re absorbed the real life. Utilizing the 1X Globe Version, we can quickly examine the efficiency of AI designs– pressing growth time and supplying a clear standard for continual renovation.

[1X]

SLAPBOT is an interactive robot art work by Hooman Samani and Chandler Cheng, checking out the characteristics of physical communication, synthetic firm, and power. The setup includes a robot arm fitted with a soft, blow up hand that supplies puts with pneumatically-driven actuation, changing a natural human motion right into a set robot reaction.

I asked, naturally, whether SLAPBOT puts individuals, and it does not: “In spite of its intriguing principle and expressive style, SLAPBOT does not make physical call with human individuals. It replicates the motion of slapping without providing a real strike. The robot arm’s activities are specifically choreographed to recommend the act, yet it preserves a risk-free range.”

[SLAPBOT]

Many Thanks, Hooman!

Evaluating the bowels of ships is something we had actually actually like robotics to be providing for us, please and thanks.

[Norwegian University of Science and Technology] by means of [GitHub]

Many Thanks, Kostas!

H2L Company (hereinafter described as H2L) has actually introduced a brand-new item called “Pill User interface,” which transfers whole-body activities and stamina, making it possible for brand-new shared experiences with robotics and characters. An item intro video clip portraying a synchronization never ever prior to experienced by human beings was likewise launched.

[H2L Corp.] by means of [RobotStart]

Just how do you maintain a robotic secure without needing it to consider you? Radar!

[Paper] by means of [IEEE Sensors Journal]

Many Thanks, Bram!

We suggest Airborne Elephant Trunk, an airborne continuum manipulator influenced by the elephant trunk, including a small quadrotor and a dexterous, certified tendon-driven continuum arm for flexible procedure in both interior and exterior setups.

[Adaptive Robotics Controls Lab]

This video clip shows a hefty weight raising examination utilizing the ARMstrong Dex robotic, concentrating on a 40 kg bicep crinkle movement. ARMstrong Dex is a human-sized, dual-arm hydraulic robotic presently under growth at the Korea Atomic Power Study Institute (KAERI) for calamity reaction applications. Developed to do jobs flexibly like a human while providing high power result, ARMstrong Dex can managing complicated procedures in harmful settings.

[Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute]

Micro-robots that can check pipes, detect splits, and repair them autonomously– lowering leakages and preventing costly excavation job– have actually been established by a group of designers led by the College of Sheffield.

[University of Sheffield]

We’re expanding in dimension, range, and influence! We’re delighted to reveal the opening of our serial manufacturing center in the San Francisco Bay Location, the extremely initial purpose-built robotaxi setting up center in the USA. Even more area indicates extra technology, manufacturing, and chances to scale our fleet.

[Zoox]

Enjoy multipick at work as our pickle robotic quickly determines, selects, and puts several boxes in a solitary swing of an arm.

[Pickle]

And currently, this.

[Aibo]

Cargill’s Amsterdam Multiseed center employs Place and Orbit to check equipment and do aesthetic checks, boosted by brand new AI attributes, as component of their “Plant of the Future” program.