Robot videos: scuttle robot, laundry folding, and more

Friday video is your weekly selection of impressive robotics videos, collected by your friends in Spectrum ieee robotics. We also publish a weekly calendar for the next robotics events for the coming months. Please Send us your events for inclusion.

RO-MAN 2025: August 25-29, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Clawar 2025: 5-7 September 2025, Shenzhen, China

News 2025: 23-24 September 2025, San Francisco

Corl 2025: September 27-30 2025, Seoul

IEEE HUMANOIDIDS: September 30 to October 2, 2025, Seoul

World Robots Summit: October 10-12, 2025, Osaka, Japan

IROS 2025: 19-25 October 2025, Hangzhou, China

Take advantage of today’s videos!

Consult our latest innovations on SCUTTLE, by progressing multilet mobility anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uch3yx-mjta

[ GCR ]

This linen folding robot on which we have been working for 15 years is still not there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoornv3la0k

Honestly, I think the figure could learn some tips from UC Berkeley PR2 vintage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33s0gzo – YouTube

[ Figure ]

The tension robots are so cool, but so hard – it is good to see progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

[ Michigan Robotics ]

We should discover next week how fast it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY6YSUG9F00

[ Unitree ]

We introduce a methodology for optimization of specific design of the task of multirotorating micro-American vehicles. By taking advantage of the learning of strengthening, Bayesian optimization and the strategy of evolution of the adaptation of the covariance matrix, we optimize the designs of guided air robots only by their closed loop performance in a task considered. Our approach systematically explores the design space for engine installation configurations while ensuring manufacturing constraints and minimum aerodynamic interference. The results demonstrate that optimized conceptions obtain higher performance compared to conventional multi -ray configurations in agile Waypoint navigation tasks, including against entirely activated conceptions of the literature. We build and test one of the optimized conceptions in the real world to validate the SIM2REAL transferability of our approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6W_DTKWVTC

[ ARL ]

Thank you, Kostas!

I suppose that the legs are necessary for this inspection application due to the stairs from the start? But sometimes that’s how the world is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gpphya6tkc

[ DEEP Robotics ]

The Institute of DLR robotics and mechatronics has a long tradition in the development of multiple hands, creating new mecatronic concepts as well as autonomous seizure and manipulation capacities. The range of hands extends from Rotex, a first two fingers pliers for space applications, with an AWIWI rigidity end effectors and highly anthropomorphic variable rigidity. This video summarizes DLR developments in this area in the past 30 years, starting with the Rotex experience in 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu-coco8xzy

[ DLR RM ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGF0NKX8T9A

[ Arc Lab ]

Serious question: why don’t humanoid robots sit more often?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1DH0SMKKM

[ EngineAI ]

And now this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcqixha8ykg

[ LimX Dynamics ]

NASA researchers are currently using the blower and flight tests to collect data on electric vertical takeoff and landing (Evtol) with a small reduced plane that looks like an air taxi that aircraft manufacturers can use for their own conceptions. Using a smaller version of a large plane called blower vehicle from the RAVEN sub-brain and test vehicle (RAVEN SWFT), NASA is able to carry out its tests quickly and profitable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kB6fz2kjt8

[ NASA ]

This video details the progress of the orbital manipulation made by the DLR robotics and mechatronics center over the past 30 years, paving the way for the development of robotic technology for the sustainability of space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otwr-s6qus

[ DLR RM ]

This summer, a team of robots explored a simulated Martian landscape in Germany, guided remotely by an astronaut aboard the international space station. This marked the fourth and last session of the Avatar Experiment surface, a collaboration between ESA and the German aerospace center (DLR) to develop how astronauts can control robotic teams to perform complex tasks on the moon and March.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMFPVCU16SQ

[ ESA ]