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.
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 Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN
IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Enjoy today’s videos!
Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation. Fully programmable in Python (and soon JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299, it’s your gateway into robotics AI: fun, customizable, and ready to be part of your next coding project.
I’m so happy that Pollen and Reachy found a home with Hugging Face, but I hope they understand that they are never, ever allowed to change that robot’s face. O-o
[ Reachy Mini ] via [ Hugging Face ]
General-purpose robots promise a future where household assistance is ubiquitous and aging in place is supported by reliable, intelligent help. These robots will unlock human potential by enabling people to shape and interact with the physical world in transformative new ways. At the core of this transformation are Large Behavior Models (LBMs) – embodied AI systems that take in robot sensor data and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on large, diverse manipulation datasets and offer the key to realizing robust, general-purpose robotic intelligence. Yet despite their growing popularity, we still know surprisingly little about what today’s LBMs actually offer – and at what cost. This uncertainty stems from the difficulty of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. As a result, progress in algorithm and dataset design is often guided by intuition rather than evidence, hampering progress. Our work aims to change that.
Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of physical intelligence by developing AI-driven robotic platforms capable of high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. This video showcases Kinisi’s latest wheeled-base humanoid performing dexterous bin stacking and item sorting using closed-loop perception and motion planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time vision to achieve robust manipulation without reliance on fixed infrastructure. By integrating custom hardware with onboard intelligence, Kinisi enables scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing toward broader commercial readiness for embodied AI systems.
[ Kinisi Robotics ]
Thanks, Bren!
In this work, we develop a data collection system where human and robot data are collected and unified in a shared space, and propose a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that is pretrained on human data and fine-tuned on robot data. This enables high data efficiency and effective transfer from human to quadrupedal embodiments, facilitating versatile manipulation skills for unimanual and bimanual, non-prehensile and prehensile, precise tool-use, and long-horizon tasks, such as cat litter scooping!
[ Human2LocoMan ]
Thanks, Yaru!
LEIYN is a quadruped robot equipped with an active waist joint. It achieves the world’s fastest chimney climbing through dynamic motions learned via reinforcement learning.
[ JSK Lab ]
Thanks, Keita!
Quadrupedal robots are really just bipedal robots that haven’t learned to walk on two legs yet.
[ Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab, University of Hong Kong ]
This study introduces a biomimetic self-healing module for tendon-driven legged robots that uses robot motion to activate liquid metal sloshing, which removes surface oxides and significantly enhances healing strength. Validated on a life-sized monopod robot, the module enables repeated squatting after impact damage, marking the first demonstration of active self-healing in high-load robotic applications.
Thanks, Kento!
That whole putting wheels on quadruped robots thing was a great idea that someone had way back when.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
I know nothing about this video except that it’s very satisfying and comes from a YouTube account that hasn’t posted in 6 years.
Our AI WORKER now comes in a new Swerve Drive configuration, optimized for logistics environments. With its agile and omnidirectional movement, the swerve-type mobile base can efficiently perform various logistics tasks such as item transport, shelf navigation, and precise positioning in narrow aisles.
Wait, you can have a bimanual humanoid without legs? I am shocked.
[ ROBOTIS ]
I can’t tell whether I need an office assistant, or if I just need snacks.
[ PNDbotics ]
“MagicBot Z1: Atomic kinetic energy, the brave are fearless,” says the MagicBot website. Hard to argue with that!
[ MagicLab ]
We’re excited to announce our new HQ in Palo Alto [CA]. As we grow, consolidating our Sunnyvale [CA] and Moss [Norway] team under one roof will accelerate our speed to ramping production and getting NEO into homes near you.
I’m not entirely sure that moving from Norway to California is an upgrade, honestly.
[ 1X ]
Jim Kernan, Chief Product Officer at Engineered Arts, shares how they’re commercializing humanoid robots—blending AI, expressive design, and real-world applications to build trust and engagement.
[ Humanoids Summit ]
In the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a conversation about the early days of Wing and how the team solved some of their toughest engineering challenges to develop simple, lightweight, inexpensive delivery drones that are now being used every day across three continents.
[ Moonshot Podcast ]
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