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
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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…
Video Friday: Gemini Robotics Improves Motor Skills
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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…
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…
Safe Bayesian Optimization for Complex Control Systems via Additive Gaussian Processes
Controller tuning and optimization have long been recognized as fundamental challenges in robotics and mechatronic systems. Traditional controller design techniques are usually model-based, and their closed-loop performance depends on the fidelity of the mathematical model. Subsequent tuning of the controller parameters is frequently carried out via empirical rules, which may still suffer from model inaccuracies.…
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…