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.
European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
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, TX
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
Enjoy today’s videos!
Every time you see a humanoid demo in a warehouse or factory, ask yourself: Would a “superhumanoid” like this actually be a better answer?
[ Dexterity ]
The only reason that this is the second video in Video Friday this week, and not the first, is because you’ve almost certainly already seen it.
This is a collaboration between the Robotics and AI Institute and Boston Dynamics, and RAI has its own video, which is slightly different:
– YouTube
[ Boston Dynamics ] via [ RAI ]
Well this just looks a little bit like magic.
[ University of Pennsylvania Sung Robotics Lab ]
After hours of dance battles with professional choreographers (yes, real human dancers!), PM01 now nails every iconic move from Kung Fu Hustle.
[ EngineAI ]
Sanctuary AI has demonstrated industry-leading sim-to-real transfer of learned dexterous manipulation policies for our unique, high degree-of-freedom, high strength, and high speed hydraulic hands.
[ Sanctuary AI ]
This video is “introducing BotQ, Figure’s new high-volume manufacturing facility for humanoid robots,” but I just see some injection molding and finishing of a few plastic parts.
[ Figure ]
What’s in the bags, though?
[ Deep Robotics ]
This hurts my knees to watch, in a few different ways.
[ Unitree ]
[ Jizai ] via [ RobotStart ]
The world must know: who killed Mini-Duck?
[ Pollen ]
Seven hours of Digit robots at work at ProMat.
And there are two more days of these livestreams if you need more!
[ Agility ]
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