Video Friday: Biorobotics Turns Lobster Tails Into Gripper
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.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into…
Video Friday: Disney’s Robotic Olaf Makes His Debut
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.SOSV Robotics Matchup: 1–5 December 2025, ONLINEICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! Step behind…
Modular Acoustic Graph SLAM for Underwater Monitoring With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
This work was developed under the need for an acoustic localization system to monitor marine protected areas (MPAs) with the help of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Although the use of acoustic signals for underwater localization has been previously studied, most of the solutions rely on filter-based optimization, which is prone to linearization problems in long-term…
A Platform-Centric Framework for Intelligent Parking Traffic Prediction and Resource Optimization in Shared AVPC Systems
To address the challenges posed by uncertainties in the parking behaviors of private owners and temporary users, as well as the complexities involved in integrating shared parking with Electric Vehicle (EV)-charging, this paper proposes a novel platform-centric intelligent framework for shared Automated Valet Parking and Charging (AVPC) systems. The framework leverages Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)…
Vision-Based Autonomous Robotic Arc Welding: State-of-the-Art Review and Perspectives
Robotic welding is an essential technology in industrial production. Various sensors are integrated into robotic welding systems to enhance welding efficiency and quality. Due to their advantages of non-contact measurement, high information capacity, and high accuracy, vision sensors play an increasingly important role in robotic autonomous welding. Therefore, the latest vision-based autonomous robotic arc welding…
Dual-Agent-Based Robotic Ultrasound Path Planning and Interaction Control in External-Vision-Independent Environments
Ultrasound imaging has emerged as a crucial tool for the diagnosis and navigation of spinal diseases. However, high-quality image acquisition heavily relies on experienced sonographers, which restricts its further popularization. In this paper, a robotic system designed for automated spinal ultrasound scanning is proposed. Drawing inspiration from the spinal anatomy and the actions of seasoned…
Robot Navigates Tough Terrain With New 3D Mapping Technique
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Four-legged robots are making great strides in their ability to safely traverse complex terrains. In a recent advance, researchers in Hong Kong have developed a novel mapping model for quadrupedal robots that allows them to autonomously crawl under and leap…
Linear-Parameterization-Based Model Free Adaptive Predictive Control
A novel data-driven predictive control scheme is proposed for unknown nonlinear discrete-time systems. The control increment vector is linearly parameterized through the dynamic linearization (DL) on the ideal controllers along the prediction horizon, leading to a predictive control law. The control gain matrix is adaptively tuned through the recursive least square method. The distinctive predictive…
Video Friday: A Billion Dollars for Humanoid Robots
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.ACTUATE 2025: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCOCoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOULIEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October…
Adaptive Safety-Critical Control for High-Order Systems: A Real-Time Gaussian Process Approach
This paper proposes a novel adaptive fast variational sparse Gaussian process (AFVSGP) framework to ensure real-time safety for high-order systems under model uncertainties and dynamic obstacle environments. The framework effectively addresses the challenge of maintaining real-time safety guarantees during unknown trajectory transitions in nonstationary environments. To achieve this, the proposed framework incorporates three key innovations.…