Video Friday: FridgeBot

Jun 04, 2023

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):

Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.

[ Telexistence ]

It would be a lot easier to build a drone if you didn't have to worry about take-offs or landings, and DARPA's Gremlins program has been making tangible progress towards midair drone recovery.

[ DARPA ]

[ Cobionix ] via [ Gizmodo ]

It's been just a little bit too long since we've had a high quality cat on a Roomba video.

[ YouTube ]

[ MIT CSAIL ]

NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! Not the kind with legs or wheels, but still.

[ NASA ]

[ EcoBOT ]

[ Harvard Wyss ]

[ Paper ]

Thanks Poramate!

The new Mavic 3 from DJI looks very impressive, especially that 46 minute battery life.

[ DJI ]

[ KodLab ]

[ CSA ]

[ Boeing ]

I do not understand what the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots folks are trying to tell me here, and also, those colors make my eyeballs scream.

[ Campaign to Stop Killer Robots ]

No doorbell? Nothing that some Dynamixels and a tongue drum can't fix.

[ YouTube ]

[ Paper ]

[ University of Bristol ]

This a bottle unscrambler. I don't know why that's what it's called because the bottles don't seem scrambled. But it's unscrambling them anyway.

[ B&R ]

[ AirLab ]