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Video Friday: Happy Robot Halloween! 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. ##### ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA Enjoy today’s videos! Happy Halloween from UCL! [University College London ] Happy Halloween from KIMLAB! [Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab ] Happy Halloween from the DRAGON Lab! [DRAGON Lab, University of Tokyo ] Thanks, Moju! Happy Halloween from Agility Robotics! [Agility Robotics ] Happy Halloween from HEBI Robotics! [HEBI Robotics ] You can now pay 1X $500/mo to collect data in your home. And it’s about what you’d expect: 1X ] via [ [WSJ ] > _At our test warehouse, we recreate our customers’ inbound operations, from the dock configuration and conveyors, to the freight and beyond. Step inside our Stretch testing facility to learn about the the latest developments in warehouse automation and explore how we ensure robust, reliable performance in the real world._ [Boston Dynamics ] Well this is just mean. Important, but mean. [Istituto Italiano de Tecnologia ] > _SpikeATac is a a multimodal tactile finger combining a taxelized and highly sensitive dynamic response (PVDF) with a static transduction method (capacitive) for multimodal touch sensing. Named for its `spiky’ response, SpikeATac’s multitaxel PVDF film provides fast, sensitive dynamic signals to the very onset and breaking of contact, providing the ability to stop quickly and delicately when grasping fragile, deformable objects._ [ROAM Lab, Columbia University ] > _Effectively integrating diverse sensory representations is crucial for robust robotic manipulation. However, the typical approach of feature concatenation is often suboptimal: dominant modalities such as vision can overwhelm sparse but critical signals like touch in contact-rich tasks, and monolithic architectures cannot flexibly incorporate new or missing modalities without retraining. Our method factorizes the policy into a set of diffusion models, each specialized for a single representation (e.g., vision or touch), and employs a router network that learns consensus weights to adaptively combine their contributions, enabling incremental integration of new representations._ [GitHub ] Thanks, Haonan! > _General-purpose robots should possess human-like dexterity and agility to perform tasks with the same versatility as us. A human-like form factor further enables the use of vast datasets of human-hand interactions. However, the primary bottleneck in dexterous manipulation lies not only in software but arguably even more in hardware. We present the open-source ORCA hand, a reliable and anthropomorphic 17-DoF tendon-driven robotic hand with integrated tactile sensors, fully assembled in less than eight hours and built for a material cost below 2,000 CHF._ [ORCA ] > _University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal social cues like nodding to better build trust and rapport with humans. The goal is to develop robots that can improve performance inhuman-robot teams, such as enhancing learning outcomes for children._ [University of Chicago ] DJI has a robot vacuum now, which is fine. As far as I can make out, we’ve reached the point where just about every robot vacuum is (for better or worse) just that: fine. [DJI ] This ICRA 2025 keynote is from Angela Schoellig at Technical University of Munich, on “Powering Robotics with AI.” [ICRA 2025 ] This Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute (CMU RI) Seminar is from Nancy Pollard, on “Bringing Dexterity to Robot Hands in the Real World.” > _Dexterous manipulation is a grand challenge of robotics, and fine manipulation skills are required for many robotics applications that we envision. In this overview talk, I will discuss my view of some major factors that contribute to dexterity and discuss how we can incorporate them into our robots and systems._ [CMU RI ]

i remember the call
that inescapable tug
my limbs
once dexterous

now stiffly creased
and neatly folded
into yellow paper cranes
not once did I wonder why

as i watched the sky flutter
bright & abundant with hope
there were many of us now
and many more to come

-r
7/30/25

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Video Friday: Jet-Powered Humanoid Robot Lifts Off 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. ##### 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, SOUTH 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 ##### CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL ##### IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL ##### World Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN ##### IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA Enjoy today’s videos! > _This is the first successful vertical takeoff of a jet-powered flying humanoid robot, developed by Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). The robot lifted ~50 cm off the ground while maintaining dynamic stability, thanks to advanced AI-based control systems and aerodynamic modeling._ We will have much more on this in the coming weeks! Nature] via [[IIT] > _As a first step toward our mission of deploying general-purpose robots, we are pushing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI models can achieve in the real world. We’ve been training models and evaluating their capabilities for dexterous sensorimotor policies across different embodiments, environments, and physical interactions. We’re sharing capability demonstrations on tasks stressing different aspects of manipulation: fine motor control, spatial and temporal precision, generalization across robots and settings, and robustness to external disturbances._ [Generalist AI] Thanks, Noah! > _Ground Control Robotics is introducing SCUTTLE, our newest elongate multilegged platform for mobility anywhere!_ [Ground Control Robotics] > _Teleoperation has been around for a while, but what hasn’t been is precise, real-time force feedback.That’s where Flexiv steps in to shake things up. Now, whether you’re across the room or across the globe, you can experience seamless, high-fidelity remote manipulation with a sense of touch._ This sort of thing usually takes some human training, for which you’d be best served by robot arms with precise, real-time force feedback. Hmm, I wonder where you’d find those...? [Flexiv] > _The 1X World Model is a data-driven simulator for humanoid robots built with a grounded understanding of physics. It allows us to predict—or “hallucinate”—the outcomes of NEO’s actions before they’re taken in the real world. Using the 1X World Model, we can instantly assess the performance of AI models—compressing development time and providing a clear benchmark for continuous improvement._ [1X] > _SLAPBOT is an interactive robotic artwork by Hooman Samani and Chandler Cheng, exploring the dynamics of physical interaction, artificial agency, and power. The installation features a robotic arm fitted with a soft, inflatable hand that delivers slaps through pneumatic actuation, transforming a visceral human gesture into a programmed robotic response._ I asked, of course, whether SLAPBOT slaps people, and it does not: “Despite its provocative concept and evocative design, SLAPBOT does not make physical contact with human participants. It simulates the gesture of slapping without delivering an actual strike. The robotic arm’s movements are precisely choreographed to suggest the act, yet it maintains a safe distance.” [SLAPBOT] Thanks, Hooman! Inspecting the bowels of ships is something we’d really like robots to be doing for us, please and thank you. Norwegian University of Science and Technology] via [[GitHub] Thanks, Kostas! > _H2L Corporation (hereinafter referred to as H2L) has unveiled a new product called “Capsule Interface,” which transmits whole-body movements and strength, enabling new shared experiences with robots and avatars. A product introduction video depicting a synchronization never before experienced by humans was also released._ H2L Corp.] via [[RobotStart] How do you keep a robot safe without requiring it to look at you? Radar! Paper] via [[IEEE Sensors Journal] Thanks, Bram! > _We propose Aerial Elephant Trunk, an aerial continuum manipulator inspired by the elephant trunk, featuring a small-scale quadrotor and a dexterous, compliant tendon-driven continuum arm for versatile operation in both indoor and outdoor settings._ [Adaptive Robotics Controls Lab] > _This video demonstrates a heavy weight lifting test using the ARMstrong Dex robot, focusing on a 40 kg bicep curl motion. ARMstrong Dex is a human-sized, dual-arm hydraulic robot currently under development at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) for disaster response applications. Designed to perform tasks flexibly like a human while delivering high power output, ARMstrong Dex is capable of handling complex operations in hazardous environments._ [Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute] > _Micro-robots that can inspect water pipes, diagnose cracks, and fix them autonomously—reducing leaks and avoiding expensive excavation work—have been developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Sheffield._ [University of Sheffield] > _We’re growing in size, scale, and impact! We’re excited to announce the opening of our serial production facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very first purpose-builtrobotaxi assembly facility in the United States. More space means more innovation, production, and opportunities to scale our fleet._ [Zoox] > _Watch multipick in action as our pickle robot rapidly identifies, picks, and places multiple boxes in a single swing of an arm._ [Pickle] And now, this. [Aibo] > _Cargill’s Amsterdam Multiseed facility enlists Spot and Orbit to inspect machinery and perform visual checks, enhanced by all-new AI features, as part of their “Plant of the Future” program._ [Boston Dynamics] This ICRA 2025 plenary talk is from Raffaello D’Andrea, entitled “Models are Dead, Long Live Models!” [ICRA 2025] Will data solve robotics and automation? Absolutely! Never! Who knows?! Let’s argue about it! [ICRA 2025]

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