Video Friday: Watch Robots Throw, Catch, and Hit a Baseball

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SOSV Robotics Matchup: 1– 5 December 2025, ONLINE

ICRA 2026: 1– 5 June 2026, VIENNA

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Scientists at the RAI Institute have actually constructed a low-impedance system to examine vibrant robotic adjustment. In this trial, robotics play a video game of catch and take part in batting technique, both with each various other and with knowledgeable human beings. The robotics can tossing 70mph [112 kph], coming close to the rate of a solid secondary school bottle. The robotics can capture and bat at brief ranges (23 feet [7 m]) calling for fast response times to capture rounds tossed at as much as 41 miles per hour [66kph] and struck rounds pitched at as much as 30 miles per hour [48kph].

That’s a great touch with the custom-made “RAI” baseball handwear covers, yet what I actually would like to know is how much time a set of robotics can maintain themselves captivated.

[ RAI Institute ]

Today’s ideal bacronym victor is GIRAF: Considerably Enhanced Get To AnyMAL Feature. And if that arm appears like magic, that’s since it is, although with some cautious stopping briefly of the video clip you’ll have the ability to see exactly how it functions.

[ Stanford BDML ]

DARPA ended the 2nd year of the DARPA Triage Difficulty on October 4, granting leading marks to DART and MSAI in Solution and Information competitors, specifically. The three-year reward competitors intends to reinvent clinical triage in mass casualty cases where clinical sources are restricted.

[ DARPA ]

We suggest a robotic agnostic incentive feature that stabilizes the success of a preferred end position with influence reduction and the security of important robotic components throughout support knowing. To make the plan durable to a wide series of first dropping problems and to make it possible for the spec of an approximate and undetected end position at reasoning time, we present a simulation-based tasting method of first and finish postures. Via substitute and real-world experiments, our job shows that also bipedal robotics can execute regulated, soft drops.

[ Moritz Baecher ]

Oh look, a lot more humanoid balancings.

My forecast: when humanoid business lack mocapped dancing relocations, we’ll begin seeing some weird things that leverages the levels of liberty that robotics have and human beings do not. You heard it below initially, people.

[ MagicLab ]

I test the following business that makes a “lights-out” video clip to simply reduce to simply an entirely black display with a little “Effective Choices” counter in the edge that simply increases and up and up.

[ Brightpick ]

Many Thanks, Gilmarie!

The surface things is awesome and all yet can we simply speak about the trailer rather?

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Most likely extremely fussy German birblets are obtaining custom-made nesting boxes made with exceedingly high accuracy by robotics.

[ TUM ]

All those UBTECH Pedestrian S2 robotics weren’t phony, it ends up.

[ UBTECH ]

This is a lot more automation than what we ‘d actually be considering robotics now, yet I might still enjoy all of it day.

[ Motoman ]

Brad Concierge (Cobot) and Alfred Lin (Sequoia Resources) review the future of robotics, AI, and automation at the Human[X] Seminar, regulated by CNBC’s Kate Rooney. They check out why collective robotics are increasing currently, exactly how AI is changing physical systems, the function of humanoids, labor market changes, and the financial investment fads forming the following years of robotics.

[ Cobot ]

Humanoid robotics have actually lengthy caught our creativity. Passion has actually increased in addition to the assumption that robotics are obtaining closer to handling a large range of labor-intensive jobs. In this conversation, we review what we have actually found out by observing , and why we have actually expanded persuaded that going after generalization in adjustment– both in equipment and habits– isn’t simply intriguing, yet essential. We’ll review AI research study strings we’re checking out at Boston Dynamics to press this goal ahead, and emphasize chances our area must jointly spend a lot more in to transform the humanoid vision, and the reinvention of production, right into a useful, financially feasible item.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

On November 12, 2025, Tom Williams offered “Levels of Liberty: On Robotics and Social Justice” as component of the Michigan Robotics Workshop Collection.