Video Friday: RIVR Delivers Your Package

Video Clip Friday is your regular option of amazing robotics video clips, accumulated by your pals 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 incorporation.

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

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, 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

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

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

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September– 2 October 2025, SEOUL

CoRL 2025: 27– 30 September 2025, SEOUL

Take pleasure in today’s video clips!

I like the system and I like the usage situation, yet this certain shipment technique is … Odd?

[ RIVR ]

This is simply the start of what individuals and physical AI can achieve with each other. To acknowledge company worth from collective robotics, you need to comprehend what individuals succeed, what robotics succeed– and just how they ideal collaborated to produce performance. DHL and Robust.AI are partnering to specify the future of human-robot cooperation.

[ Robust AI ]

Teleoperated robot personalities can do meaningful communications with human beings, counting on the drivers’ experience and social instinct. In this job, we recommend to produce self-governing interactive robotics, by educating a version to mimic driver information. Our design is educated on a dataset of human-robot communications, where a professional driver is asked to differ the communications and state of mind of the robotic, while the driver regulates along with the posture of the human and robotic are videotaped.

[ Disney Research Studios ]

Presenting THEMIS V2, our brand new full-size humanoid robotic. Standing at 1.6 m with 40 DoF, THEMIS V2 currently includes improved 6 DoF arms and progressed 7 DoF end-effectors, in addition to an extra body-mounted stereo cam and approximately 200 TOPS of onboard AI computer power. These upgrades provide remarkable capacities in adjustment, understanding, and navigating, pressing humanoid robotics to brand-new elevations.

[ Westwood ]

BMW x Number Update: This isn’t an examination atmosphere– it’s actual manufacturing procedures. Real-world robotics are progressing our Helix AI and enhancing our end-to-end freedom to release countless robotics.

[ Figure ]

On March 13, at WorldMinds 2025, in the Kaufleuten Movie Theater of Zurich, our group showed for the very first time 2 self-governing vision-based auto racing drones. It was a legendary trip to get ready for this occasion, offered the bad illumination problems and the safety and security restraints of a movie theater full of greater than 500 individuals! The history display envisions in real-time the monitorings of the AI formula of each drone. No map, no IMU, no bang!

[ University of Zurich (UZH) ]

Unitree launches Dex5 dexterous hand. Solitary hand with 20 levels of flexibility (16 energetic +4 passive). Enable smooth backdrivability (straight pressure control). Outfitted with 94 extremely delicate touch factors (optional).

[ Unitree ]

You can state “real world manipulation” all you desire, yet up until it’s really in the real life, I’m denying it.

[ 1X ]

Created by Pudu X-Lab, FlashBot Arm boosts the capacities of our front runner FlashBot by mixing innovative humanoid adjustment and smart shipment capacities, powered by cutting-edge personified AI. This effective mix enables the robotic to autonomously do a vast array of jobs throughout varied setups, consisting of resorts, office complex, dining establishments, retail areas, and health care centers.

[ Pudu Robotics ]

If you ever before intended to control a trilby with 25 robotics, a remedy currently exists.

[ Paper ] using [ EPFL Reconfigurable Robotics Lab ] released by [ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ]

We have actually been sharing video clips from the Suzumori Endo Robotics Lab at the Institute of Scientific research Tokyo for years, and Teacher Suzumori is currently retiring.

Ideal dreams to Teacher Suzumori!

[ Suzumori Endo Lab ]

Regardless of the lorry, typical control systems battle when unanticipated difficulties– like damages, unanticipated atmospheres, or brand-new goals– press them past their style limitations. Our Discovering Introspective Control (LINC) program intends to essentially enhance the safety and security of mechanical systems, such as ground lorries, ships, and robotics, utilizing numerous equipment finding out approaches that need very little computer power.

[ DARPA ]

NASA’s Willpower vagabond caught brand-new pictures of numerous dirt adversaries while checking out the edge of Jezero Crater on Mars. The biggest dirt adversary was about 210 feet vast (65 meters). In this Mars Record, climatic researcher Priya Patel discusses what dirt adversaries can show us concerning weather on the Red Earth.

[ NASA ]