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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. Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS 2026 : 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGH Humanoids Summit Seoul : 22–23 September 2026, SEOUL Enjoy today’s videos! Introducing Gemini Robotics 2—the intelligence layer powering the next generation of truly adaptable robots. As it takes its first literal steps, this major advance unlocks intelligent whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration. [ Google DeepMind ] THE ROADMAP! NOOOOO! [ Agility ] Videos like this always make me wonder how repairable these robots are. Very, I would hope. [ Unitree ] Humans routinely communicate through abstractions of their bodies, including shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. Here, we present a robotic system capable of dynamic shadow expression using a 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand with compliant soft skin and a learned shadow self-model. [ General Robotics Lab ] Human to quadruped motion transfer is an odd concept but I’m here for it. [ Disney Research ] Meet Stretch 4.0 —The one-armed, three-wheeled robot that can navigate your home safely. Would you rather a humanoid robot or Stretch? [ Hello Robot ] And now, this, for some reason. [ PNDbotics ] I’m not sure we’re allowed to be impressed if you resize a badminton court to accommodate your robot. [ PHYBOT ] Golden eagles care not for drones . [ Team BlackSheep ] USC researchers work with NASA and others to train robot dogs for planetary exploration on Mars, the moon and beyond! [ Research in Applied Decisions: RAD Lab ] Thanks, Cristina! WABOT-1 was arguably the birth of the humanoid robot in Japan. We’ve come a long way, and it’s good to be reminded where we started. [ Takanishi Lab ] If only this video was at 1x instead of 5x we could have had 15 hours of Memo folding laundry. [ Sunday Robotics ]

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