Robotic Movies: Reachy Mini, Autonomous Humanoids, Extra

Video Friday is your weekly choice of superior robotics movies, collected by your mates at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally submit a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

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, CHINA

ACTUATE 2025: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO

CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL

World Robotic Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN

IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA

Take pleasure in right this moment’s movies!

Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robotic designed for human-robot interplay, artistic coding, and AI experimentation. Totally programmable in Python (and shortly JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299, it’s your gateway into robotics AI: enjoyable, customizable, and able to be a part of your subsequent coding challenge.

I’m so completely satisfied that Pollen and Reachy discovered a house with Hugging Face, however I hope they perceive that they’re by no means, ever allowed to alter that robotic’s face. O-o

[ Reachy Mini ] through [ Hugging Face ]

Common-purpose robots promise a future the place family help is ubiquitous and ageing in place is supported by dependable, clever assist. These robots will unlock human potential by enabling folks to form and work together with the bodily world in transformative new methods. On the core of this transformation are Massive Habits Fashions (LBMs) – embodied AI methods that absorb robotic sensor information and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on massive, various manipulation datasets and supply the important thing to realizing sturdy, general-purpose robotic intelligence. But regardless of their rising recognition, we nonetheless know surprisingly little about what right this moment’s LBMs truly supply – and at what value. This uncertainty stems from the problem of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. Consequently, progress in algorithm and dataset design is commonly guided by instinct slightly than proof, hampering progress. Our work goals to alter that.

[ Toyota Research Institute ]

Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of bodily intelligence by creating AI-driven robotic platforms able to high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. This video showcases Kinisi’s newest wheeled-base humanoid performing dexterous bin stacking and merchandise sorting utilizing closed-loop notion and movement planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time imaginative and prescient to attain sturdy manipulation with out reliance on fastened infrastructure. By integrating customized {hardware} with onboard intelligence, Kinisi permits scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing towards broader business readiness for embodied AI methods.

[ Kinisi Robotics ]

Thanks, Bren!

On this work, we develop an information assortment system the place human and robotic information are collected and unified in a shared area, and suggest a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that’s pretrained on human information and fine-tuned on robotic information. This allows excessive information effectivity and efficient switch from human to quadrupedal embodiments, facilitating versatile manipulation expertise for unimanual and bimanual, non-prehensile and prehensile, exact tool-use, and long-horizon duties, resembling cat litter scooping!

[ Human2LocoMan ]

Thanks, Yaru!

LEIYN is a quadruped robotic geared up with an lively waist joint. It achieves the world’s quickest chimney climbing by means of dynamic motions realized through reinforcement studying.

[ JSK Lab ]

Thanks, Keita!

Quadrupedal robots are actually simply bipedal robots that haven’t realized to stroll on two legs but.

[ Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab, University of Hong Kong ]

This examine introduces a biomimetic self-healing module for tendon-driven legged robots that makes use of robotic movement to activate liquid steel sloshing, which removes floor oxides and considerably enhances therapeutic energy. Validated on a life-sized monopod robotic, the module permits repeated squatting after impression injury, marking the primary demonstration of lively self-healing in high-load robotic purposes.

[ University of Tokyo ]

Thanks, Kento!

That complete placing wheels on quadruped robots factor was an incredible thought that somebody had manner again when.

[ Pudu Robotics ]

I do know nothing about this video besides that it’s very satisfying and comes from a YouTube account that hasn’t posted in 6 years.

[ Young-jae Bae YouTube ]

Our AI WORKER now is available in a brand new Swerve Drive configuration, optimized for logistics environments. With its agile and omnidirectional motion, the swerve-type cell base can effectively carry out varied logistics duties resembling merchandise transport, shelf navigation, and exact positioning in slender aisles.

Wait, you possibly can have a bimanual humanoid with out legs? I’m shocked.

[ ROBOTIS ]

I can’t inform whether or not I would like an workplace assistant, or if I simply want snacks.

[ PNDbotics ]

“MagicBot Z1: Atomic kinetic vitality, the courageous are fearless,” says the MagicBot web site. Onerous to argue with that!

[ MagicLab ]

We’re excited to announce our new HQ in Palo Alto [CA]. As we develop, consolidating our Sunnyvale [CA] and Moss [Norway] workforce underneath one roof will speed up our velocity to ramping manufacturing and getting NEO into houses close to you.

I’m not completely positive that shifting from Norway to California is an improve, truthfully.

[ 1X ]

Jim Kernan, Chief Product Officer at Engineered Arts, shares how they’re commercializing humanoid robots—mixing AI, expressive design, and real-world purposes to construct belief and engagement.

[ Humanoids Summit ]

Within the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview sequence, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a dialog concerning the early days of Wing and the way the workforce solved a few of their hardest engineering challenges to develop easy, light-weight, cheap supply drones that are actually getting used every single day throughout three continents.

[ Moonshot Podcast ]