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…
MIT’s AI Robotics Lab Director Is Building People-Centered Robots
Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, she says, because she understood it was a way to expand the possibilities of computing while enhancing human capabilities.“I like to think of robotics as a…
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…
Video Friday: Drone Easily Lands on Speeding Vehicle
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.World Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPANIROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINAEnjoy today’s videos!…
Why the World Needs a Flying Robot Baby
One of the robotics projects that I’ve been most excited about for years now is iRonCub, from Daniele Pucci’s Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy. Since 2017, Pucci has been developing a jet-propulsion system that will enable an iCub robot (originally designed in 2004 to be…
Practical Finite-Time Contraction of Impulsive Systems With Application to Design of Impulsive Control for PFTC
This paper investigates practical finite-time contraction (PFTC) for impulsive systems with application to design of impulsive control for PFTC. The PFTC notions including practical finite-time incremental stability (PFTIS) and practical finite-time stability (PFTS) are defined. By using the variation method, the equivalence of PFTC and PFTIS is established for an impulsive system via PFTS of…
Video Friday: Gemini Robotics Improves Motor Skills
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.CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOULIEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOULWorld Robot Summit: 10–12 October…
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…
Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots
A critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Wi-Fi configuration interface used by several different Unitree robots can result in a root-level takeover by an attacker, security researchers disclosed on 20 September. The exploit impacts Unitree’s Go2 and B2 quadrupeds and G1 and H1 humanoids. Because the vulnerability is wireless, and the resulting access…