Eufy Robot Vacuum’s Secret to Climbing Stairs

Friday video is your weekly selection of impressive robotics videos, collected by your friends in Spectrum ieee robotics. We also publish a weekly calendar for the next robotics events for the coming months. Please Send us your events for inclusion.

News 2025: 23-24 September 2025, San Francisco

Corl 2025: September 27-30 2025, Seoul

IEEE HUMANOIDIDS: September 30 to October 2, 2025, Seoul

World Robots Summit: October 10-12, 2025, Osaka, Japan

IROS 2025: 19-25 October 2025, Hangzhou, China

Take advantage of today’s videos!

It’s ridiculous and I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcunho0cy9Q

[ Eufy ]

At ICRA 2024, we met Paul Nadan to find out how his robot Loris sets up the walls while sticking to the rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzte9ctzy

[ CMU ]

If a humanoid robot will load my dishwasher, I expect it to do it optimally, not all at random like a puny human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfuuzn4q8

[ Figure ]

Humanoid robots have recently made impressive progress in locomotion and whole body control, but they remain limited in tasks which require rapid interaction with dynamic environments by manipulation. Table tennis illustrates such a challenge: ball speeds exceeding 5 m / s, players must perceive, predict and act in the reaction times of the subsecond, requiring both agility and precision. To remedy this, we present a hierarchical framework for humanoid table tennis which incorporates a planner based on a model for the prediction of the ball trajectory and the target planning of the racket with an entire body controller based on reinforcement learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tofpkw6d3ge

[ Hybrid Robotics ]

Despite their promise, today’s organic robots generally underform their entirely synthetic counterparts and their potential as planned from a reductionist assessment of the constituents. Many systems represent evidence of attractive concept with limited practical applicability. Most remain confined to controlled laboratory parameters and lack feasibility in complex environments of the real world. The development of organic robots is currently a meticulous and tailor -made process, and the resulting systems are systematically characterized. The complex and intertwined relationships between the components, the interface and the performance of the system are poorly understood, and the methodologies to guide the enlightened design of biohybrid systems are lacking. The opportunity of hybrids seeks ideas to answer the question: how to integrate synthetic and biological components to allow biohybrid platforms that surpass traditional robotic systems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebcsdnsgsg

[ DARPA ]

Robotic systems will play a key role in future lunar missions, and many research is currently being carried out in this area. One of these projects is Samler-Ki (semi-autonomous micro-rover for lunar exploration using artificial intelligence), a collaboration between the German research center for artificial intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Applied Sciences Aachen (FH Aachen), Germany. The project focuses on the conceptual design of a semi-autonomous micro-river which is capable of surviving the lunar nights while remaining in the class of size of a micro-road. During development, the conditions on the moon such as exposure to dust, radiation and space of space are taken into account, as well as the duration of 14 years of a lunar night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw7z5_sm7xa

[ DFKI ]

Armstrong Dex is a double -arm hydraulic robot on a human scale developed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Kaeri) for applications for disasters. He is able to lift his own body with vertical pull-ups and manipulate objects on 50 kg, demonstrating force beyond human capacities. In this test, Armstrong Dex used a saw with a pocket computer to cut through a thick 40 × 90 mm wooden beam. Sawing is a physically demanding task involving a repetitive force application, a fine trajectory control and real -time coordination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qw5l_yovz8

[ KAERI ]

This robot stole my face “OMG ia juice”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox9003uok9s

[ Pudu Robotics ]

The best way to sing a punch in the face is to have a big hole where your face should be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbxHdskx4g

However, I hope that they do not call it a combat robot.

[ Unitree ]

It could really be fun to have an DRC style event for quadrupeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tfzznhaqs

[ DEEP Robotics ]

CMU researchers are developing new technologies to allow robots to interact physically with people who are unable to take care of themselves. These breakthroughs are deployed in the real world, which allows people with neurological diseases, cerebral vascular accidents, multiple sclerosis, SLAs and dementia to be able to eat, clean and dress fully alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvnq0qirvp8

[ CMU ]

Caracol additive manufacturing platforms use Kuka robotic arms to produce large-scale industrial parts with precision and flexibility. This video describes how Caracol incorporates multi-axis robotics, modular extruders and proprietary software to support production in sectors such as aerospace, navy, automobile and architecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACVSCPEMW4Y

[ KUKA ]

There were a few robots at ICRA 2025, as you can expect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chyxgtjvn0i

[ ICRA ]

On June 6, 1990, following the conclusion of the planetary explorations of traveling, the mission representatives held a press conference at the NASA laboratory propulsion in the south of California to summarize key conclusions and answer questions from the media. In the briefing, the scientist of the longtime project to travel, Ed Stone, as well as the renowned scientific communicator Carl Sagan, also revealed the “Solar System family portrait” of the mission, a mosaic including images of six of the eight planets of the solar system. Carl Sagan was a member of the traveling and instrumental imaging team in the capture of these images and brought to the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOW0MVVLPC0

Carl Sagan, man. Carl Sagan. Blue Dot Unveil was just around 57:00, if you missed it.

[ JPL ]