Robotic Vacation Movies – IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday is your weekly collection of superior robotics movies, collected by your pals at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We additionally put up a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics occasions for the subsequent few months. Please ship us your occasions for inclusion.

ICRA 2025: 19–23 Could 2025, ATLANTA, GA

Get pleasure from right now’s movies!

On the FZI, it’s not simply work for our robots, they be part of our festivities, too. Our shy robotic Spot stumbled into this yr’s FZI Winter Market …, a cheerful occasion for robots and people alike. Will he discover his place? We definitely hope so, as a result of Feuerzangenbowle tastes a lot better after clinking glasses along with your hot-oil-drinking pals.

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Thanks, Georg!

The Fraunhofer IOSB Autonomous Robotic Techniques Analysis Group needs you a Merry Christmas full of pleasure, peace, and robotic wonders!

[ Fraunhofer IOSB ]

Thanks, Janko!

There’s some thrilling motion on this Christmas video from the PUT Cell Robotics Laboratory, and the trick to place the lights on the tree is especially intelligent. Get pleasure from!

[ PUT MRL ]

Thanks, Dominik!

[ Northern Robotics Laboratory ]

The Studying Techniques and Robotics Lab has made a few robotic vacation movies primarily based on the analysis that they’re doing:

[ Crowd Navigation ]

[ Learning with Contacts ]

Thanks, Sepehr!

Robots on a present mission: Christmas greetings from the DFKI Robotics Innovation Middle!

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Joyful Holidays from Clearpath Robotics! Our workshop has been bustling currently with numerous thrilling initiatives and integrations simply in time for the vacations! The TurtleBot 4 elves helped load up the sleigh with loads of presents to go round. Rudolph the Husky A300 made the trek via the snow so our Ridgeback buddy with a manipulator arm and gripper may obtain its present.

[ Clearpath Robotics ]

2024 has been an eventful yr for us at PAL Robotics, full of milestones and reminiscences. Because the festive season approaches, we wish to take a second to say a heartfelt THANK YOU for being a part of our journey!

[ PAL Robotics ]

Thanks, Rugilė!

In Santa’s store, so brilliant and neat, A robotic marched on metallic toes. With tinsel arms and bolts so tight, It trimmed the tree all via the night time. It hummed a carol, beeped with cheer, “Processing pleasure—it’s Christmas right here!” However when it tried to bounce with grace, It tangled lights round its face. “Error detected!” it spun round, Then tripped and tumbled to the bottom. The elves all laughed, “You’ve finished your half—A careless bot, however with a coronary heart!” The ArtiMinds crew wish to thank all companions and clients for an thrilling 2024. We want you and your households a Merry Christmas, joyful holidays and a Joyful New Yr – keep wholesome.

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Because of FANUC CRX collaborative robots, Santa and his elves can benefit from the vacation season understanding the work is getting finished for the massive night time.

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Maybe not technically a vacation video, till you take into account how all that stuff you ordered on-line is definitely attending to you.

[ Agility Robotics ]

Joyful Holidays from Quanser, our greatest needs for an exquisite vacation season and a cheerful 2025!

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Season’s Greetings from the crew at Kawasaki Robotics USA! This season, we’re constructing blocks of reminiscences full of countless pleasure, and assembling our good needs for a cheerful, wholesome, affluent new yr. Could the upcoming yr be full of alternatives and successes. From our crew to yours, we hope you’ve gotten an exquisite vacation season surrounded by family members and full of pleasure and laughter.

[ Kawasaki Robotics ]

The robotics college students at Queen’s College’s Ingenuity Labs Analysis Institute put collectively a 4K Vacation Robotics Lab Hearth video, and in contrast to most hearth movies, stuff truly occurs on this one.

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Thanks, Joshua!