Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, N.C.
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, TEXAS
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
Enjoy today’s videos!
I love the platform and I love the use case, but this particular delivery method is…odd?
[ RIVR ]
This is just the beginning of what people and physical AI can accomplish together. To recognize business value from collaborative robotics, you have to understand what people do well, what robots do well, and how they best come together to create productivity. DHL and Robust.AI are partnering to define the future of human–robot collaboration.
[ Robust AI ]
Teleoperated robotic characters can perform expressive interactions with humans, relying on the operators’ experience and social intuition. In this work, we propose to create autonomous interactive robots by training a model to imitate operator data. Our model is trained on a dataset of human–robot interactions, where an expert operator is asked to vary the interactions and mood of the robot, while the operator commands and the poses of the human and robot are recorded.
Introducing THEMIS V2, our all-new full-size humanoid robot. Standing at 1.6 meters with 40 degrees of freedom, THEMIS V2 now features enhanced 6 DoF arms and advanced 7 DoF end-effectors, along with an additional body-mounted stereo camera and up to 200 Tera Operations per Second (TOPS) of onboard AI computing power. These upgrades deliver exceptional capabilities in manipulation, perception, and navigation, pushing humanoid robotics to new heights.
[ Westwood ]
BMW x Figure Update: This isn’t a test environment—it’s real production operations. Real-world robots are advancing our Helix AI and strengthening our end-to-end autonomy to deploy millions of robots.
[ Figure ]
On 13 March, at WorldMinds 2025, in the Kaufleuten Theater of Zurich, our team demonstrated for the first time two autonomous vision-based racing drones. It was an epic journey to prepare for this event, given the poor lighting conditions and the safety constraints of a theater filled with more than 500 people! The background screen visualizes in real time the observations of the AI algorithm of each drone. No map, no IMU, no SLAM!
[ University of Zurich (UZH) ]
Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. Single hand with 20 degrees of freedom (16 active plus 4 passive). Enable smooth backdrivability (direct force control). Equipped with 94 highly sensitive touch points (optional).
[ Unitree ]
You can say “real-world manipulation” all you want, but until it’s actually in the real world, I’m not buying it.
[ 1X ]
Developed by Pudu X-Lab, FlashBot Arm elevates the capabilities of our flagship FlashBot by blending advanced humanoid manipulation and intelligent delivery capabilities, powered by cutting-edge embodied AI. This powerful combination allows the robot to autonomously perform a wide range of tasks across diverse settings, including hotels, office buildings, restaurants, retail spaces, and health care facilities.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
If you ever wanted to manipulate a trilby with 25 robots, a solution now exists.
[ Paper ] via [ EPFL Reconfigurable Robotics Lab ] published by [ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ]
We’ve been sharing videos from the Suzumori Endo Robotics Lab at the Institute of Science Tokyo for many years, and Professor Suzumori is now retiring.
Best wishes to Professor Suzumori!
[ DARPA ]
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured new images of multiple dust devils while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on Mars. The largest dust devil was approximately 210 feet wide (65 meters). In this Mars Report, atmospheric scientist Priya Patel explains what dust devils can teach us about weather conditions on the Red Planet.
[ NASA ]
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