Video Friday: TruckBot

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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[ Impress ]

Here’s a little bit more IRL footage of Apptronik’s Apollo, which was announced this week.

[ Apptronik ]

[ Mujin ]

These high-speed robot hands from the late 1990s and 2000s are still impressive.

[ Namiki Laboratory ]

This is maybe the jauntiest robot I’ve ever seen.

[ UPenn ]

Or maybe this is the jauntiest robot I’ve ever seen.

[ Deep Robotics ]

Turns out, if you make feet into hydrofoil shapes and put a pair of legs into a water current that’s been disturbed by a cylinder, you’ll get a fairly convincing biological walking gait.

[ UMass Amherst ]

Thanks, Julia!

Okay, but I want to know more about Mr. Bucket <3.

[ MIT News ]

[ Dusty Robotics ]

[ GRVC ]

[ NASA ]

An unscripted but presumably edited long interview with Robot Sophia, if you’re into that particular kind of theater.

[ Hanson Robotics ]

Thanks, Dan!