Robot Videos: Reachy Mini, Autonomous Humanoids, More

Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally publish a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the following 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

Take pleasure in as we speak’s movies!

Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robotic designed for human-robot interplay, artistic coding, and AI experimentation. Absolutely 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 mission.

I’m so comfortable 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 ] by way of [ Hugging Face ]

Normal-purpose robots promise a future the place household help is ubiquitous and getting older 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 Conduct Fashions (LBMs) – embodied AI techniques that soak up robotic sensor knowledge and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on giant, various manipulation datasets and supply the important thing to realizing strong, general-purpose robotic intelligence. But regardless of their rising reputation, we nonetheless know surprisingly little about what as we speak’s LBMs truly supply – and at what price. This uncertainty stems from the issue of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. In consequence, progress in algorithm and dataset design is commonly guided by instinct moderately 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 motion planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time imaginative and prescient to realize strong manipulation with out reliance on mounted infrastructure. By integrating customized {hardware} with onboard intelligence, Kinisi permits scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing towards broader industrial readiness for embodied AI techniques.

[ Kinisi Robotics ]

Thanks, Bren!

On this work, we develop a data collection system the place human and robotic knowledge are collected and unified in a shared area, and suggest a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that’s pretrained on human knowledge and fine-tuned on robotic knowledge. This permits excessive knowledge 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, comparable to cat litter scooping!

[ Human2LocoMan ]

Thanks, Yaru!

LEIYN is a quadruped robotic geared up with an energetic waist joint. It achieves the world’s quickest chimney climbing by way of dynamic motions discovered by way of reinforcement learning.

[ JSK Lab ]

Thanks, Keita!

Quadrupedal robots are actually simply bipedal robots that haven’t discovered 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 metal sloshing, which removes floor oxides and considerably enhances therapeutic energy. Validated on a life-sized monopod robotic, the module permits repeated squatting after influence injury, marking the primary demonstration of energetic self-healing in high-load robotic functions.

[ University of Tokyo ]

Thanks, Kento!

That complete placing wheels on quadruped robots factor was an awesome thought that somebody had method 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 cellular base can effectively carry out varied logistics duties comparable to merchandise transport, shelf navigation, and exact positioning in slender aisles.

Wait, you’ll be able to 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 energy, the courageous are fearless,” says the MagicBot web site. Arduous 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] group underneath one roof will speed up our velocity to ramping manufacturing and getting NEO into properties close to you.

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

[ 1X ]

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

[ Humanoids Summit ]

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

[ Moonshot Podcast ]