Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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

RoboSoft 2025: 23– 26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

ICUAS 2025: 14– 17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC

ICRA 2025: 19– 23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA

London Humanoids Summit: 29– 30 May 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

Appreciate today’s video clips!

MIT designers established an insect-sized leaping robotic that can pass through difficult surfaces while utilizing much much less power than an airborne robotic of equivalent dimension. This small, jumping robotic can jump over high challenges and hurdle inclined or unequal surface areas bring concerning 10 times much more haul than a similar-sized airborne robotic, unlocking to lots of brand-new applications.

[ MIT ]

CubiX is a wire-driven robotic that links to the atmosphere with cables, with drones utilized to develop these links. By incorporating with different devices and a robotic, it does jobs past the constraints of its physical framework.

[ JSK Lab ]

Many Thanks, Shintaro!

It’s a video game a great deal of us played as youngsters– and perhaps even later on in life: unspooling gauging tape to see just how much it would certainly prolong prior to flexing. However to designers at the College of The Golden State San Diego, this video game was an ideas, recommending that gauging tape might come to be a terrific product for a robot gripper.

[ University of California San Diego ]

I delighted in the Murderbot publications, and the trailer for the television program in fact looks not awful.

[ Murderbot ]

For service robots, having the ability to run an unmodified lift is a lot more challenging (and a lot more vital) than you could believe.

[ Pudu Robotics ]

There’s a great deal of buzz around outstanding robotics trials– however taking Physical AI from demonstration to real-world implementation is a trip that requires significant design muscle mass. Negotiating the side instances and reaching range is 500x the initiative of reaching the very first demonstration. See our procedure for constructing this out for the singulation and induction Physical AI option relied on by several of the globe’s leading parcel providers. Right here’s to the groups also devoted to the work towards integrity and range.

[ Dexterity Robotics ]

I am entirely charmed by the style of this little robotic.

[ RoMeLa ]

This video clip reveals a reduced variation of Issey Miyake’s Fly With Me path program from 2025 Paris Guys’s Style Week. My partners and I brought 2 commercial robotics to life to be the main attribute of the minimal scenography for the Japanese brand name.

Each ABB IRB 6640 robotic held a 2 meter square item of material, and relocated synchronously in streaming movements to match the psychological timing of the path program. With just three-weeks growth time and 3 days on-site, I constructed custom-made online coding devices that opened the commercial robotics to much more improvisational operations. This degree of trustworthy, real-time control opened the versatility required by the Issey Miyake group to make the required final innovative choices for the program.

[ Atonaton ]

Meet Duplicate’s very first bone and joint android: Protoclone, one of the most anatomically exact robotic on the planet. Based upon an all-natural human skeletal system, Protoclone is activated with over 1,000 Myofibers, Duplicate’s proprietary artificial muscle innovation.

[ Clone Robotics ]

There are a great deal of greatly generated humanoid robot video clips from the firms offering them, today that these systems are getting in the study room, we need to begin obtaining a much more reasonable feeling of their abilities.

[ University College London ]

Right here’s a little bit much more video from RIVR on their home distribution robotic.

[ RIVR ]

And currently, this.

[ EngineAI ]

Robotics go to the heart of sci-fi, visions of the future, however what happens if that future is currently? And what happens if those robotics, assisting us at the workplace and in your home, are just an expansion of the devices we’ve utilized for numerous years? That’s what musician and designer Catie Cuan believes, and it belongs to the factor she educates robotics to dance. In this episode we fulfill individuals at the frontiers of the future of robotics and Astro Cashier presents 2 innovative tasks, Everyday Robots and Intrinsic, that have actually progressed just how robotics might function not simply for us however with us.

[ Moonshot Podcast ]