Synthetic Muscle tissue, Boston Dynamics, and Extra Movies

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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

Get pleasure from at present’s movies!

The practical replication and actuation of advanced buildings impressed by nature is a longstanding aim for humanity. Creating such advanced buildings combining tender and inflexible options and actuating them with synthetic muscular tissues would additional our understanding of pure kinematic buildings. We printed a biomimetic hand in a single print course of composed of a inflexible skeleton, tender joint capsules, tendons, and printed contact sensors.

[ Paper ] by way of [ SRL ]

Two Boston Dynamics product managers speak about their favourite basic BD robots, after which I speak about mine.

And that is Boston Dynamics’ LittleDog, doing legged locomotion analysis 16 or so years in the past in what I’m fairly certain is Katie Byl’s lab at UCSB.

[ Boston Dynamics ]

That is our newest work on the trajectory planning methodology for floating-based articulated robots, enabling the worldwide path for looking in advanced and cluttered environments.

[ DRAGON Lab ]

Thanks, Moju!

OmniPlanner is a unified resolution for exploration and inspection-path planning (in addition to goal attain) throughout aerial, floor, and underwater robots. It has been verified by way of intensive simulations and a mess of area assessments, together with in underground mines, ballast water tanks, forests, college buildings, and submarine bunkers.

[ NTNU ]

Thanks, Kostas!

Within the ARISE undertaking, the FZI Analysis Middle for Data Know-how and its worldwide companions ETH Zurich, College of Zurich, College of Bern, and College of Basel took a significant step towards future lunar missions by testing cooperative autonomous multirobot groups underneath out of doors situations.

[ FZI ]

Welcome to the longer term, the place there are not any different people.

[ Zhejiang Humanoid ]

That is our newest work on robotic fish, and it’s additionally the primary underwater robotic from DRAGON Lab.

[ DRAGON Lab ]

Thanks, Moju!

Watch this one easy trick to make humanoid robots cheaper and safer!

[ Zhejiang Humanoid ]

Gugusse and the Automaton is a 1897 French movie by Georges Méliès that includes a humanoid robotic in an outline that’s almost as life like as among the humanoid promo movies we’ve seen recently.

[ Library of Congress ] by way of [ Gizmodo ]

At Agility, we create automated options for the toughest work. We’re extremely pleased with how far we’ve come, and may’t wait to point out you what’s subsequent.

[ Agility ]

[ Humanoids Summit ]

Anca Dragan is not any stranger to Waymo. She labored with us for six years whereas additionally at UC Berkeley and now at Google DeepMind. Her give attention to making AI safer helped Waymo because it launched commercially. On this ultimate episode of our season, Anca describes how her work permits AI brokers to work fluently with folks, primarily based on human objectives and values.

[ Waymo Podcast ]

This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by Junyao Shi: “Unlocking Generalist Robots with Human Knowledge and Basis Fashions.”

Constructing general-purpose robots stays essentially constrained by knowledge shortage and labor-intensive engineering. Not like imaginative and prescient and language, robotics lacks giant, various datasets that span duties, environments, and embodiments, thus limiting each scalability and generalization. This discuss explores how human knowledge and basis fashions educated at scale may help overcome these bottlenecks.

[ UPenn ]