Artificial Muscles, Boston Dynamics, and More Videos

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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

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The useful replication and actuation of advanced constructions impressed by nature is a longstanding objective for humanity. Creating such advanced constructions combining comfortable and inflexible options and actuating them with artificial muscles would additional our understanding of pure kinematic constructions. We printed a biomimetic hand in a single print course of comprised of a inflexible skeleton, comfortable joint capsules, tendons, and printed contact sensors.

[ Paper ] by way of [ SRL ]

Two Boston Dynamics product managers speak about their favourite basic BD robots, after which I speak about mine.

And that is Boston Dynamics’ LittleDog, doing legged locomotion analysis 16 or so years in the past in what I’m fairly positive is Katie Byl’s lab at UCSB.

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That is our newest work on the trajectory planning methodology for floating-based articulated robots, enabling the worldwide path looking out in advanced and cluttered environments.

[ DRAGON Lab ]

Thanks, Moju!

OmniPlanner is a unified answer for exploration and inspection path planning (in addition to goal attain) throughout aerial, floor, and underwater robots. It has been verified by way of in depth simulations and a large number of subject checks, together with in underground mines, ballast water tanks, forests, college buildings, and submarine bunkers.

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Thanks, Kostas!

Within the ARISE challenge, the FZI Research Center for Information Technology and its worldwide companions ETH Zurich, College of Zurich, College of Bern, and College of Basel took a significant step towards future lunar missions by testing cooperative autonomous multi-robot groups below out of doors circumstances.

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Welcome to the longer term, the place there aren’t any different people.

[ Zhejiang Humanoid ]

That is our newest work on robotic fish, and can be the primary underwater robot of DRAGON Lab.

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Thanks, Moju!

Watch this one easy trick to make humanoid robots cheaper and safer!

[ Zhejiang Humanoid ]

Gugusse and the Automaton’ is a 1897 French movie by Georges Méliès that includes a humanoid robotic in practically as real looking of a method as a few of the humanoid promo movies we’ve seen recently.

[ Library of Congress ] by way of [ Gizmodo ]

At Agility, we create automated options for the toughest work. We’re extremely happy with how far we’ve come, and may’t wait to point out you what’s subsequent.

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[ Humanoids Summit ]

Anca Dragan is not any stranger to Waymo. She labored with us for six years whereas additionally at UC Berkeley and now, Google DeepMind. Her give attention to making AI safer helped Waymo because it launched commercially. On this remaining episode of our season, Anca describes how her work allows AI agents to work fluently with folks, primarily based on human objectives and values.

[ Waymo Podcast ]

This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by Junyao Shi, on “Unlocking Generalist Robots with Human Information and Basis Fashions.”

Constructing general-purpose robots stays essentially constrained by information shortage and labor-intensive engineering. In contrast to imaginative and prescient and language, robotics lacks massive, various datasets spanning duties, environments, and embodiments, limiting each scalability and generalization. This discuss explores how human information and foundation models skilled at scale might help overcome these bottlenecks.

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