Video Friday: Robot Battlefield Triage

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.

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

London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 May 2025, LONDON

IEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN

2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON

RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer School: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA

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, SOUTH KOREA

IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS

RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL

RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS

CLAWAR 2025: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA

CoRL 2025: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL

IEEE Humanoids: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL

World Robot Summit: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN

IROS 2025: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA

Enjoy today’s videos!

Behind the scenes at DARPA Triage Challenge Workshop 2 at the Guardian Centers in Perry, Ga.

[ DARPA ]

Watch our coworker in action as he performs high-precision stretch routines enabled by 31 degrees of freedom. Designed for dynamic adaptability, this is where robotics meets real-world readiness.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Thanks, Jinyan!

Featuring a lightweight design and continuous operation capabilities under extreme conditions, LYNX M20 sets a new benchmark for intelligent robotic platforms working in complex scenarios.

[ DEEP Robotics ]

The sound in this video is either excellent or terrible, I’m not quite sure which.

[ TU Berlin ]

Humanoid loco-manipulation holds transformative potential for daily service and industrial tasks, yet achieving precise, robust whole-body control with 3D end-effector force interaction remains a major challenge. Prior approaches are often limited to lightweight tasks or quadrupedal/wheeled platforms. To overcome these limitations, we propose FALCON, a dual-agent reinforcement-learning-based framework for robust force-adaptive humanoid loco-manipulation.

[ FALCON ]

An MRSD Team at the CMU Robotics Institute is developing a robotic platform to map environments through perceptual degradation, identify points of interest, and relay that information back to first responders. The goal is to reduce information blindness and increase safety.

[ Carnegie Mellon University ]

We introduce an eldercare robot (E-BAR) capable of lifting a human body, assisting with postural changes/ambulation, and catching a user during a fall, all without the use of any wearable device or harness. With a minimum width of 38 centimeters, the robot’s small footprint allows it to navigate the typical home environment. We demonstrate E-BAR’s utility in multiple typical home scenarios that elderly persons experience, including getting into/out of a bathtub, bending to reach for objects, sit-to-stand transitions, and ambulation.

[ MIT ]

Sanctuary AI had the pleasure of accompanying Microsoft to Hannover Messe, where we demonstrated how our technology is shaping the future of work with autonomous labor powered by physical AI and general-purpose robots.

[ Sanctuary AI ]

Watch how drywall finishing machines incorporate collaborative robots, and learn why Canvas chose the Universal Robots platform.

[ Canvas ] via [ Universal Robots ]

We’ve officially put a stake in the ground in Dallas–Fort Worth. Torc’s new operations hub is open for business—and it’s more than just a dot on the map. It’s a strategic launchpad as we expand our autonomous freight network across the southern United States.

[ Torc ]

This Stanford Robotics Center talk is by Jonathan Hurst at Agility Robotics, on “Humanoid Robots: From the Warehouse to Your House.”

How close are we to having safe, reliable, useful in-home humanoids? If you believe recent press, it’s just around the corner. Unquestionably, advances in Al and robotics are driving innovation and activity in the sector; it truly is an exciting time to be building robots! But what does it really take to execute on the vision of useful, human-centric, multipurpose robots? Robots that can operate in human spaces, predictably and safely? We think it starts with humanoids in warehouses, an unsexy but necessary beachhead market to our future with robots as part of everyday life. I’ll talk about why a humanoid is more than a sensible form factor, it’s inevitable; and I will speak to the excitement around a ChatGPT moment for robotics, and what it will take to leverage Al advances and innovation in robotics into useful, safe humanoids.

[ Stanford ]