Video Friday: Robot Dog Shows Off Its Muscles

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

ICRA 2026: 1– 5 June 2026, VIENNA

Delight in today’s video clips!

Suzumori Endo Laboratory, Scientific research Tokyo has actually created a pet bone and joint robotic making use of slim McKibben muscular tissues. This robotic imitates the adaptable “hammock-like” shoulder framework to check out the biomechanical features of pet dog bone and joint systems.

[ Suzimori Endo Robotics Laboratory ]

HOLEY SNAILBOT!!!

[ Freeform Robotics ]

We offer a system that changes speech right into physical items making use of 3D generative AI and distinct robot setting up. By leveraging all-natural language, the system makes style and producing even more easily accessible to individuals without competence in 3D modeling or robot shows.

[ MIT ]

Satisfy the future generation of side AI. A completely self-supporting vision system developed for robotics, automation, and real-world knowledge. Enjoy exactly how OAK 4 brings calculate, noticing, and 3D understanding with each other in one tool.

[ Luxonis ]

Many Thanks, Max!

Motivated by creeping plants’ twisty perseverance, designers at MIT and Stanford College have actually created a robot gripper that can serpent around and raise a range of items, consisting of a glass flower holder and a watermelon, providing a gentler method contrasted to traditional gripper layouts. A bigger variation of the robo-tendrils can likewise securely raise a human out of bed.

[ MIT ]

The paper presents an automated arm or leg add-on system making use of soft actuated bands and a magnet-hook lock for wearable robotics. It makes it possible for quickly, safe, and comfy self-donning throughout numerous arm dimensions, sustaining clinical-level tons and exact stress control.

[ Paper ]

Many Thanks, Bram!

Autonomous driving is the best obstacle for AI in the real world. At Waymo, we’re addressing it by focusing on demonstrably secure AI, where security is main to exactly how we craft our designs and AI community from scratch.

[ Waymo ]

Constructed by Texas A&M design trainees, this AI-powered robot pet dog is reimagining exactly how robotics run in calamity areas. Created to climb up with debris, prevent dangers and make independent choices in actual time, the robotic utilizes a custom-made multimodal big language design (MLLM) incorporated with aesthetic memory and voice commands to see, bear in mind and prepare its following step like a very first -responder.

[ Texas A&M ]

Up until now, airborne microrobots have actually just had the ability to fly gradually along smooth trajectories, much from the swift, nimble trip of actual pests– previously. MIT scientists have actually shown airborne microrobots that can fly with rate and dexterity that approaches their organic equivalents. A joint group made a brand-new AI-based controller for the robot insect that allowed it to comply with gymnastic trip courses, such as carrying out continual body turns.

[ MIT ]

In this audio clip created by information from the SuperCam microphone aboard NASA’s Willpower, the audio of an electric discharge can be listened to as a Martian dirt adversary flies over the Mars vagabond. The recording was accumulated on Oct. 12, 2024, the 1,296 th Martian day, or sol, of Willpower’s objective on the Red World.

[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ]

In this episode, we open up the archives on host Hannah Fry’s see to our The golden state robotics laboratory. Recorded previously this year, Hannah connects with a brand-new collection of robotics– those that do not simply see, however assume, prepare, and do. Enjoy as the group goes behind the scenes to examine the restrictions of generalization, testing robotics to take care of undetected items autonomously.

[ Google DeepMind ]

This Grip on Robotics Workshop is by Parastoo Abtahi from Princeton College, on “When Robots Disappear– From Haptic Illusions in Virtual Reality to Object-Oriented Communications in AR”.

Developments in audiovisual making have actually resulted in the commercialization of digital fact (VIRTUAL REALITY); nevertheless, haptic innovation has actually not stayed on top of these developments. While a range of robot systems intend to resolve this void by replicating the feeling of touch, lots of equipment restrictions make practical touch communications in virtual reality difficult. In my research study, I discover exactly how, by comprehending human understanding with the lens of sensorimotor control concept, we can make communications that not just conquer the existing restrictions of robot equipment for virtual reality however likewise prolong our capacities past what is feasible in the real world.
In the initial component of this talk, I will certainly offer my work with redirection impressions that utilize the restrictions of human understanding to boost the regarded efficiency of encountered-type haptic tools in virtual reality, such as the setting precision of drones and the resolution of form display screens. In the 2nd component, I will certainly share exactly how we use these imaginary communications to physical rooms and utilize enhanced fact (AR) to assist in based and bidirectional human-robot interaction, linking customers’ psychological designs and robot depictions.

[ University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory ]