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London Humanoids Summit: 29-30 May 20,25, LONDON (19659005)

IEEE RCAR 2025: 1-6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN

2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit (19459126) : 16-18 Jun 2025, HOUSTON TX

RSS 2025– 21-25 June 2025 LOS ANGELES (19659008)

ETH Robotics Summer School: 21-27 June 2025, GENEVA

IAS 2025 (19459126) : 30 June-4 Jul 2025, GENOA ITALY

ICRES 2025 () : 3-4 Jul 2025, PORTO PORTUGAL (19659011)

IEEE World Haptics: 8-11 July 2025 SUWON (KOREA)

IFAC Symposium on Robotics (19459126) : 15-18 Jul 2025, PARIS (19659013)

RoboCup 2020– 15-21 July 2025 BAHIA, BRAZIL (

RO-MAN 2025 (19459126) : 25-29 Aug 2025, EINDHOVEN THE NETHERLANDS (19659015)

CLAWAR 2025 (19459126) : 5-7 Sept 2025, SHENZHEN (19659016)

CoRL 2025: 27-30 September 20,25, Seoul

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September-2 Oct 2025, Seoul

World Robot Summit: 10-12 October 20,25, OSAKA (JAPAN)

Enjoy today’s videos with IROS 2025 ()! 19-25 October 2025 in HANGZHOU.

Our latest work is about a hybrid aerial and terrestrial quadruped called SPIDAR. It shows a unique gripping style in midair. This work was presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation.

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DRAGON Lab]

Thanks, Moju!

These soft robots that look like worms can be physically entangled into “blobs” just like California blackworms. Both the robots as well as the living worms are able to operate individually and collectively, performing functions such as directed movement and transporting items.

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Designing Emergence Lab

Zippy, a 3 centimeter tall bipedal robot that is the world’s smallest, is also self contained. All the controls, power and motor are onboard so it can operate autonomously. It is the fastest bipedal robotic [relative to its size]and moves at 10 leg lengths a second.

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CMU

Spot will soon be receiving AI upgrades that will help it in industrial inspection.

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Boston Dynamics]

A 3-D-printed sphere which can change from smooth to dimpled upon demand could help researchers improve the way underwater vehicles and aircraft move. Anchal Sareen, Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, and her team were inspired by a golf-ball aerodynamics problem to study how fluid dynamics principles and soft robotics techniques could be used to reduce the drag on underwater vehicles and allow them to maneuver without fins or rudders.

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UMich]

Tool usage is crucial for robots to be able to perform complex real world tasks. Leveraging human tool-use information can be instrumental in teaching robots. Existing data-collection techniques like teleoperation, however, are slow, prone for control delays, and not suitable for dynamic tasks. Human play, where humans perform tasks directly with tools, offers natural, unstructured interaction that is both efficient and easy. We propose a framework for transferring tool-use knowledge to robots based on the insight that robots and humans can share the same tools.

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Tool as Interface

Thank you, Haonan

UR15, our new high-performance collaboration robot. UR15 is designed for maximum versatility. It combines a lightweight design and a compact footprint, allowing it to be flexible in even the most restricted environments. It can reach a maximum speed of five meters per second. This allows for reduced cycle times, increased productivity and is designed to handle heavy-duty tasks with speed and precision.

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Universal Robots

This interactive art installation, which will debut at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation in Atlanta, USA (May 19-23), features buoyant bipedal robotics, composed of helium-filled balloons and articulated limbs, moving freely within a common playground in the exhibition area. Visitors can interact with the robots using gamepads, touch, or directed airflow to influence their motion, color-changing light, and expressive behavior.

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RoMeLa]

TRON 1 got an arm. It’s now faster, stronger and ready to take on any terrain.

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LimX Dynamics

Humanoid Robots can support workers in physically demanding environments, by performing tasks requiring whole-body coordination. For example, lifting and transporting heavy items. These tasks, which are referred to as Dynamic Mobile Manipulation, require simultaneous control of locomotion and manipulation under dynamic interaction forces. This paper presents a framework for teleoperation for DMM using a height-adjustable humanoid wheeled robot to carry heavy payloads.

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RoboDesign Lab

Yoshua Benjamin, the world’s most cited computer scientist (and “godfather” in artificial intelligence) is gravely concerned about the current trajectory for the technology. Bengio warns, as AI models race towards full-blown autonomy, that they have already learned how to deceive and cheat, to self-preserve, and to slip out of control. Bengio, drawing on his groundbreaking research reveals a bold strategy to keep AI safe, and ensure that humans flourishing, and not machines with unchecked autonomy and power, define our future.

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