<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/barbell-weight-plates-flying-over-a-checkered-finish-line-in-a-sunny-field-with-flags.png?id=62177472&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=300%2C0%2C300%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at </span><em>IEEE Spectrum</em><span> robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please </span><a href="mailto:automaton@ieee.org?subject=Robotics%20event%20suggestion%20for%20Video%20Friday">send us your events</a><span> for inclusion.</span></p><h5><a href="https://2026.ieee-icra.org/">ICRA 2026</a>: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA</h5><p>Enjoy today’s videos!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display:none"> </span></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="tmhjtmabwii"><em>Current multirotor drones provide simplicity, affordability, and ease of operation; however, their primary limitation is their low payload-to-weight ratio, which typically falls at 1:1 or less. The DARPA Lift Challenge aims to shatter the heavy lift bottleneck, seeking novel drone designs that can carry payloads more than four times their weight, which would revolutionize the way we use drones across all sectors.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b38117e26dcffac395306b0ee1220905" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMHjTMabWiI?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift">DARPA</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="nzflxcht4vw"><em>Huge milestone achieved! World’s first mass delivery of humanoid robots has completed! Hundreds of UBTECH Walker S2 have been delivered to our partners.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="285714f59414b3cb44249079f2e299a9" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzflxCHT4vw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>I really hope that’s not how they’re actually shipping their robots.</p><p>[ <a href="https://www.ubtrobot.com/en/humanoid/products/walker-s2">UBTECH</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="pv1j76mnp9y">There is absolutely no reason to give <a data-linked-post="2666268821" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-robot-hand" target="_blank">robots hands</a> if you can just teach them to lasso stuff instead.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="97aea94afc12b1045837c4a9fbe328b9" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PV1J76mNP9Y?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://arclab.hku.hk/">ArcLab</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="mhkmr__c40i"><em>Saddle Creek deployed Carter in its order fulfillment operation for a beauty client. It helps to automate and optimize tote delivery operations between multiple processing and labeling lines and more than 20 designated drop-off points. In this capacity, Carter functions as a flexible, non-integrated “virtual conveyor” that streamlines material flow without requiring fixed infrastructure.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1b9a961666c2a579dcf52246e762c43e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MHkmr__c40I?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.robust.ai/">Robust.ai</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="evvak5-gd4a"><em>This is our latest work on an aerial–ground robot team, the first time a language–vision hierarchy achieves long-horizon navigation and manipulation on the real UAV + quadruped using only 2D cameras. The article is published open-access in Advanced Intelligent Systems.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1f90eb2a99b1485dc67a216cdd5bb235" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/evvAk5-gd4A?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202500640">DRAGON Lab</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Moju!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="jdgj9yic4q4">I am pretty sure that you should not use a <a data-linked-post="2659868569" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/quadrupedal-robot" target="_blank">quadrupedal robot</a> to transport your child. But only pretty sure, not totally certain.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e6b204f4e625103a21ced3fcf48929eb" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JDGJ9yIC4q4?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.deeprobotics.cn/en/">DEEP Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="jyi-lznvuy4"><em>Building Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) for humanoid robots has the potential to unify diverse control tasks under a single, promptable generalist policy. However, existing approaches are either exclusively deployed on simulated humanoid characters, or specialized to specific tasks such as tracking. We propose BFM-Zero, a framework that learns an effective shared latent representation that embeds motions, goals, and rewards into a common space, enabling a single policy to be prompted for multiple downstream tasks without retraining.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="278463191ffebdbe84376c89441218b8" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jYI-LZNvUY4?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://lecar-lab.github.io/BFM-Zero/">BFM-Zero</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="kqyfhtyjkdi">Welcome to the very, very near future of manual labor.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b5cb1e3fe4df82cd4fb59966467aa7fe" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KqyfHTYJkdI?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://global.agilex.ai/products/cobot-magic">AgileX</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="dgiuyhsdaws"><em>MOMO (Mobile Object Manipulation Operator) has been one of KIMLAB’s key robots since its development about two years ago and has featured as a main actor in several of our videos. The design and functionalities of MOMO were recently published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="479f3301776b39b8ded3be7c596cf058" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DGiuYHSdaWs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11224394/">Paper</a> ] via [ <a href="https://publish.illinois.edu/kimlab2020/">KIMLAB</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="dr6gd6raxfy"><em>We are excited about our new addition to our robot fleet! As a shared resource for our faculty members, this robot will facilitate multiple research activities within our institute that target significant future funding. Our initial focus for this robot will be on an agricultural application but we have big plans for the robot in human-robot interaction projects.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a1aa55055c485782b64f3594c265ce94" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dr6Gd6RaXFY?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://ingenuitylabs.queensu.ca/">Ingenuity Labs</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="l3brmjlgd30">The nice thing about robots that pick grapes in vineyards is that they don’t just eat the grapes, like I do.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9f29aec5ef6330aac5abb50d285ee7aa" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L3brMjLGD30?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.extendrobotics.com/">Extend Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="o5mvsyohgzc">How mobile of a <a data-linked-post="2650253293" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/mobile-manipulation-robots-having-fun" target="_blank">mobile manipulator</a> do you need?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e5fdfa9606ece1cf3698bf1458fb6a67" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o5mVSyOhgZc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://clearpathrobotics.com/warthog-unmanned-ground-vehicle-robot/">Clearpath Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="nxoroa8q9fs"><em>Robotics professor, Dr. Christian Hubicki, talks about the NEO humanoid announcement on October 29th, 2025. While explaining the technical elements and product readiness, he refuses to show any emotion whatsoever.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b4062b11511be8cc5281f27948fe7ead" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NXOROA8Q9fs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.optimalroboticslab.com/">Optimal Robotics Lab</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div>

يتركز تحدي DARPA على الطائرات المسيرة الثقيلة، مما يعرض التقدم في تكنولوجيا الطائرات المسيرة. تسلط هذه المبادرة الضوء على إمكانية الطائرات المسيرة متعددة المراوح لتوفير قدرات أكبر في تطبيقات متنوعة. تواصل IEEE Spectrum عرض مقاطع الفيديو والفعاليات المتعلقة بالروبوتات، بما في ذلك مؤتمر ICRA 2026 القادم في فيينا.

El Desafío DARPA se centra en drones de carga pesada, mostrando avances en la tecnología de drones. Esta iniciativa destaca el potencial de los drones multirrotor para ofrecer mayores capacidades en diversas aplicaciones. IEEE Spectrum continúa presentando videos y eventos de robótica, incluida la próxima conferencia ICRA 2026 en Viena.

Le défi DARPA se concentre sur les drones de levage lourds, mettant en avant les avancées dans la technologie des drones. Cette initiative souligne le potentiel des drones multirotors à offrir de plus grandes capacités dans diverses applications. IEEE Spectrum continue de présenter des vidéos et des événements sur la robotique, y compris la prochaine conférence ICRA 2026 à Vienne.

The DARPA Challenge is focusing on heavy lift drones, showcasing advancements in drone technology. This initiative highlights the potential for multirotor drones to provide greater capabilities in various applications. The IEEE Spectrum continues to feature robotics videos and events, including the upcoming ICRA 2026 conference in Vienna.

Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy Lift Drones

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/robotic-gripper-with-feather-like-fingers-delicately-holds-a-brown-mushroom-on-a-black-background.jpg?id=62284894&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C1%2C0%2C1"/><br/><br/><p><span>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at </span><em>IEEE Spectrum</em><span> robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please </span><a href="mailto:automaton@ieee.org?subject=Robotics%20event%20suggestion%20for%20Video%20Friday">send us your events</a><span> for inclusion.</span></p><h5><a href="https://2026.ieee-icra.org/">ICRA 2026</a>: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA</h5><p>Enjoy today’s videos!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display:none"> </span></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="wmlz2khwjrs"><em>EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d90a9481d2045cc7d07e9844d472cdeb" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wmLz2khwJrs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://news.epfl.ch/news/bio-hybrid-robots-turn-food-waste-into-functiona-2/">EPFL</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="rrcxecifj0u">Finally, a good <a data-linked-post="2666662286" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots" target="_blank">humanoid robot</a> demo!</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6ab457cf6c1de45d40a27f487082a70a" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rRCXeCIFJ0U?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>Although having said that, I never trust videos demos where it works really well once, and then just pretty well every other time.</p><p>[ <a href="https://www.limxdynamics.com/en/oli">LimX Dynamics</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Jinyan!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="fysgitfvvbs">I understand how these structures work, I really do. But watching something rigid extrude itself from a flexible reel will always seem a little magical.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="18fcdecd030e4f3a89cc29a8a5e670c7" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FysgitFVVBs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107385">AAAS</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Kyujin!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="gh7dlaqlsuc">I’m not sure what “industrial grade” actually means, but I want robots to be “automotive grade,” where they’ll easily operate for six months or a year without any maintenance at all.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a7281ae7d98a9cb8efca1045fd6a7f3e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gH7DLaQlsuc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.pudurobotics.com/en/products/d5">Pudu Robotics</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Mandy!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="rry09dybo4e">When you start to suspect that your <a data-linked-post="2657700577" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/mobile-ev-charging-robot" target="_blank">robotic EV charging</a> solution costs more than your car.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="660d20eca4976d472604c117a0ea415e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RRY09DyBO4E?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.flexiv.com/case-studies/ev_charging_solution">Flexiv</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="fgcqqycag5s">Yeah uh if the application for this humanoid is actually making robot parts with a hammer and anvil, then I’d be impressed.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e1dc762a7dab4a8e11bcf585e6a82140" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FGcQqyCaG5s?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.engineai.com.cn/product-t800">EngineAI</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="qcdtnfayqxk"><em>Researchers at Columbia Engineering have designed a robot that can learn a human-like sense of neatness. The researchers taught the system by showing it millions of examples, not teaching it specific instructions. The result is a model that can look at a cluttered tabletop and rearrange scattered objects in an orderly fashion.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7f271893da9341b1b55395033e8619fb" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcDtNfAYQXk?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2310.04566v3">Paper</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="yiyk8gpu9ye">Why haven’t we seen this sort of thing in humanoid robotics videos yet?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4c1413636ecdbf5982cb659c4f9715ee" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yIyk8GPU9YE?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.inria.fr/en/hucebot">HUCEBOT</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="qxg2umns0vo">While I definitely appreciate in-the-field testing, it’s also worth asking to what extent your robot is actually being challenged by the in-the-field field that you’ve chosen.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b27e732009ee69ccd0c271ed198ad3a2" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qxG2umnS0vo?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.deeprobotics.cn/en">DEEP Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="44wpylavik0"><em>Introducing HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal — autonomous, adaptive, designed for real-world impact. Built in 5 months, walking stably after 48 hours of training.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6dea41dc05624642378ab44bbaa3d8de" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/44WPYlAvIK0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://thehumanoid.ai/product/">Humanoid</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="kjjeqzecpcq">Unitree says that “this is to validate the overall reliability of the robot” but I really have to wonder how useful this kind of reliability validation actually is.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="baf62ce8bb4775c45d26663f21ee9e7a" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kjJeQZECPcQ?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.unitree.com/">Unitree</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="fxikqk-izqq">This University of Pennsylvania GRASP on Robotics Seminar is by Jie Tan from Google DeepMind, on “Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3d0ea414b6fbb4715ef2a19af7c1178a" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fXiKQk-IzqQ?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><blockquote><em>Recent advancements in large multimodal models have led to the emergence of remarkable generalist capabilities in digital domains, yet their translation to physical agents such as robots remains a significant challenge. In this talk, I will present Gemini Robotics, an advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) generalist model capable of directly controlling robots. Furthermore, I will discuss the challenges, learnings and future research directions on robot foundation models.</em></blockquote><p>[ <a href="https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2025-grasp-on-robotics-jie-tan/">University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div>

قام الباحثون في EPFL بتطوير جهاز إمساك روبوتي مستوحى من ذيول الكركند، باستخدام قشور القشريات المهملة لإنشاء آلية إمساك أكثر كفاءة وصديقة للبيئة. تُظهر هذه الابتكار إمكانيات البيروبوتكس في تحسين وظائف الروبوتات مع تعزيز الاستدامة.

Investigadores de la EPFL han desarrollado un agarre robótico inspirado en las colas de langosta, utilizando conchas de crustáceos desechadas para crear un mecanismo de agarre más eficiente y respetuoso con el medio ambiente. Esta innovación demuestra el potencial de la biorobótica para mejorar la funcionalidad robótica mientras se promueve la sostenibilidad.

Des chercheurs de l'EPFL ont développé un gripper robotique inspiré des queues de homard, utilisant des coquilles de crustacés jetées pour créer un mécanisme de préhension plus efficace et respectueux de l'environnement. Cette innovation met en avant le potentiel de la biorobotique pour améliorer la fonctionnalité des robots tout en favorisant la durabilité.

Researchers at EPFL have developed a robotic gripper inspired by lobster tails, utilizing discarded crustacean shells to create a more efficient and environmentally friendly gripping mechanism. This innovation showcases the potential of biorobotics in enhancing robotic functionality while promoting sustainability.

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