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.
2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON
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!
Introducing Redwood—1X’s breakthrough AI model capable of doing chores around the home. For the first time, NEO Gamma moves, understands, and interacts autonomously in complex human environments. Built to learn from real-world experiences, Redwood empowers NEO to perform end-to-end mobile manipulation tasks like retrieving objects for users, opening doors, and navigating around the home gracefully, on top of hardware designed for compliance, safety, and resilience.
– YouTubewww.youtube.com
[ 1X Technology ]
Marek Michalowski, who co-created Keepon, has not posted to his YouTube channel in 17 years. Until this week. The new post? It’s about a project from 10 years ago!
[ Project Sundial ]
Helix can now handle a wider variety of packaging approaching human-level dexterity and speed, bringing us closer to fully autonomous package sorting. This rapid progress underscores the scalability of Helix’s learning-based approach to robotics, translating quickly into real-world application.
[ Figure ]
This is certainly an atypical Video Friday selection, but I saw this Broadway musical called “Maybe Happy Ending” a few months ago because the main characters are deprecated humanoid home service robots. It was utterly charming, and it just won the Tony award for best new musical among others.
[ “Maybe Happy Ending” ]
Boston Dynamics brought a bunch of Spots to “America’s Got Talent,” and kudos to them for recovering so gracefully from an on stage failure.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
I think this is the first time I’ve seen end-effector changers used for either feet or heads.
[ CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory ]
ChatGPT has gone fully Navrim—complete with existential dread and maximum gloom! Watch as the most pessimistic ChatGPT-powered robot yet moves chess pieces across a physical board, deeply contemplating both chess strategy and the futility of existence. Experience firsthand how seamlessly AI blends with robotics, even if Navrim insists there’s absolutely no point.
Not bad for $219 all in.
[ Vassar Robotics ]
We present a single layer multimodal sensory skin made using only a highly sensitive hydrogel membrane. Using electrical impedance tomography techniques, we access up to 863,040 conductive pathways across the membrane, allowing us to identify at least six distinct types of multimodal stimuli, including human touch, damage, multipoint insulated presses, and local heating. To demonstrate our approach’s versatility, we cast the hydrogel into the shape and size of an adult human hand.
[ Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory ] paper published by [ Science Robotics ]
This paper introduces a novel robot designed to exhibit two distinct modes of mobility: rotational aerial flight and terrestrial locomotion. This versatile robot comprises a sturdy external frame, two motors, and a single wing embodying its fuselage. The robot is capable of vertical takeoff and landing in mono-wing flight mode, with the unique ability to fly in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions, setting it apart from traditional mono-wings.
[ AIR Lab paper ] published in [ The International journal of Robotics Research ]
When TRON 1 goes to work all he does is steal snacks from hoomans. Apparently.
[ LimX Dynamics ]
The 100,000th robot has just rolled off the line at Pudu Robotics’ Super Factory! This key milestone highlights our cutting-edge manufacturing strength and marks a global shipment volume of over 100,000 units delivered worldwide.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
Now that is a big saw.
[ Kuka Robotics ]
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed the Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain or ERNEST. This rover could lead to a new class of low-cost planetary rovers for exploration of previously inaccessible locations on Mars and the moon.
[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory paper ]
Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO, Figure AI speaks with Bloomberg Television’s Ed Ludlow about how it is training humanoid robots for logistics, manufacturing, and future roles in the home at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco.
[ Figure ]
Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, discusses how humanoid robots like Digit are transforming logistics and manufacturing. She speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone about the rapid advances in automation and the next era of robots in the workplace at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco.
[ Agility Robotics ]
This ICRA 2025 Plenary is from Allison Okamura, entitled “Rewired: The Interplay of Robots and Society.”
[ ICRA 2025 ]
The post “Video Friday: AI Model Gives Neo Robot Autonomy” by Evan Ackerman was published on 06/13/2025 by spectrum.ieee.org