Watch a Robot Arm Thrower, Curiosity’s New Terrain, and more

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.

IAS 2025: June 30-July 4, 2025, Genoa, Italy

Icres 2025: 3-4 July 2025, Porto, Portugal

IEEE World Haptics: July 8-11, 2025, SUWON, South Korea

IFAC symposium on robotics: July 15-18, 2025, Paris

Robocup 2025: July 15-21, 2025, Bahia, Brazil

RO-MAN 2025: August 25-29, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Clawar 2025: 5-7 September 2025, Shenzhen

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!

The launch is a fundamental skill that allows robots to handle objects in a way that extends out of reach of their arms. We present a control frame which combines learning and control based on models to throw the whole body prehensile with mobile manipulators on legs. This work provides an early demonstration of the prehensile launch with quantified precision on material, contributing to progress in dynamic manipulation of the whole body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ysgbn6ca8a

[ Paper ] Since [ ETH Zurich ]

It turns out that in many situations, humanoid robots do not necessarily need legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgr7iizzfr0

[ ROBOTERA ]

Support is a whole new feature in the context of Autopicker 2.0. Instead of staying stationary when selecting an article, Autopicker is starting to move to its next destination immediately after recovering a storage tote – ending the choice in motion. The robot then deposits the first storage tote on an empty slit near the next location before collecting the following tote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

[ Brightpick ]

Thank you, Gilmarie!

I’m about sure it is not yet real, but the boy is brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwsb78emfgi

[ SoftBank ] via [ RobotStart ]

Why use an inch when you can in place use two inches?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5FW4QUNLK

[ TU Berlin ]

Kirigami offers unique opportunities for the guided morphing by taking advantage of the geometry of the cuts. This work presents inflatable Kirigami robots created by introducing models cut into textiles with heat to heat to reach locomotion during cyclic pneumatic activation. We have found that Kirigami’s actuators have directional anisotropic friction properties when swollen, with higher friction coefficients in the direction of movement, allowing them to move through surfaces with variable roughness. We have also improved the functionality of inflatable Kirigami actuators by introducing several channels and segments to create functional soft robotic prototypes with versatile locomotion capabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwefdibpk0

[ Paper ] Since [ SDU Soft Robotics ]

Lockheed Martin wants to enter the return to Mars for a simple billion dollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gviU3trrps

[ Lockheed Martin ]

It is quite disgusting and exactly what you want a robot to do: to face the solid municipal waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwyniiw4nm

[ ZenRobotics ]

Slide your mouse or move your phone to explore this 360 -degree panorama provided by Curiosity Mars Rover from NASA. This view shows some of the first Rover looks in a region that has only been seen from space until now, and where the surface is tracing with spider patterns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5z32e7uakm

[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ]

In case you ask yourself the question, Irobot is still there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvza8rfiks

[ iRobot ]

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

[ MIT Personal Robots Group ]

In the first episode of our podcast Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive Video Series of Interview, Captain of Monshots Astro Teller, sits with Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of The Monshot Factory, for a conversation on the history of Waymo and Google X, the ethics of innovation, the future of AI, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0MP74V4KQ

[ Google X, The Moonshot Factory ]