Video Friday: The Coolest 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.

Enjoy today’s videos!

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[Robots Guide]

[CMU]

Lite3’s announced price is US $2,900. It ships in September.

[Deep Robotics]

This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) in London next week.

[Mateo Guaman Castro]

Thanks, Mateo!

[Dusty Robotics]

Apptronik has half of its general-purpose robot ready to go!

The other half is still a work in progress, but here’s progress:

[Apptronik]

A spotted-lanternfly-murdering robot is my kind of murdering robot.

[FRC]

ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, but this still terrifies me.

[ANYbotics]

Check out the impressive ankle action on this humanoid walking over squishy terrain.

[CNRS-AIST JRL]

[ Wing ]

[ Pollen Robotics ]

The most efficient drone engine is no engine at all.

[ MAVLab ]

Is your robot spineless? Should it be? Let’s find out.

[ UPenn ]

Looks like we’re getting closer to that robot butler.

[ Prisma Lab ]

This episode of the Robot Brains podcast features Raff D’Andrea, from Kiva, Verity, and ETH Zurich.

[ Robot Brains ]