Robot Videos: DARPA Triage Challenge, Extreme Cold Test

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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

Take pleasure in right this moment’s movies!

One among my favourite components of robotics is watching analysis collide with non-roboticists in the actual (or real-ish) world.

[ DARPA ]

Spot will put out fires for you. Ultimately. If it feels prefer it.

[ Mechatronic and Robotic Systems Laboratory ]

All these robots rising out of their crates will not be sinister in any respect.

[ LimX ]

The Lynx M20 quadruped robotic lately accomplished an excessive cold-weather discipline check in Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, working reliably in temperatures as little as –30°C.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

It is a teaser video for KIMLAB’s new teleoperation robotic. For now, we invite you to benefit from the calm environment, with college students strolling, gathering, and chatting throughout the UIUC Important Quad—together with its surroundings and ambient sounds, with none technical particulars. Extra particulars will likely be shared quickly. Benefit from the second.

Probably the most unimaginable a part of this video is that they’ve publicly out there energy in the course of their quad.

[ KIMLAB ]

For the eleventy-billionth time: Simply because you are able to do a job with a humanoid robot doesn’t imply you must do a job with a humanoid robotic.

[ UBTECH ]

[ KAIST ]

Okay, so determining the place Spot’s face is simply received much more sophisticated.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

An undergraduate crew at HKU’s Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing developed CLIO, an embodied tour-guide robotic, simply in months. Constructed on LimX Dynamics TRON 1, it makes use of LLMs for tour planning, computer vision for customer recognition, and a laser pointer/expressive show for partaking excursions.