Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Read More Technology
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor.
Roborock’s Saros Z70 is a vacuum robot that comes with an arm.
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.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY
RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA
IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN
RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES
IAS 2025: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY
ICRES 2025: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL
IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL
Enjoy today’s videos!
I’m not totally sure yet about the utility of having a small arm on a robot vacuum, but I love that this is a real thing. At least, it is at CES this year.
[ Roborock ]
We posted about SwitchBot’s new modular home robot system earlier this week, but here’s a new video showing some potentially useful hardware combinations.
[ SwitchBot ]
Yes, it’s in sim, but (and this is a relatively new thing) I will not be shocked to see this happen on Unitree’s hardware in the near future.
[ Unitree ]
[ LimX Dynamics ]
We’ve seen hybrid quadrotor bipeds before, but this one , which is imitating the hopping behavior of Jacana birds, is pretty cute.
What’s a Jacana bird, you ask? It’s these things, which surely must have the most extreme foot to body ratio of any bird:
Also, much respect to the researchers for confidently titling this supplementary video “An Extremely Elegant Jump.”
[ SSRN Paper preprint ]
Twelve minutes flat from suitcase to mobile manipulator. Not bad!
[ Pollen Robotics ]
Happy New Year from Dusty Robotics!
[ Dusty Robotics ]
How To Give Robot Vacuums a Personality (And Why It Matters) ›Robot Vacuums That Empty Themselves ›
CES 2025: Robot Vacuums Now Feature a Mechanical Arm, and … ›Robot Vacuums Are Now the Tiny Butlers of Your Dreams | WIRED ›
