Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together
Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together

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 20…

Bot space race: humanoid robots connect to satellite, prep for space launch
Bot space race: humanoid robots connect to satellite, prep for space launch

It’s been a big week for humanoid robots with a first-ever humanoid to directly connect to a low-Earth orbit satellite from one firm and plans announced to launch a robot into space by another. It seems like the robot space race is on – and China is wi…

Humanoid robots build a new excavator every 6 minutes, RIGHT NOW
Humanoid robots build a new excavator every 6 minutes, RIGHT NOW

Chinese heavy equipment giant Zoomlion isn’t planning to deploy an army of humanoid robots on its factory floors in the future – they’ve got robots on the job right now. The company is already using these ‘bots to power its “third growth curve,” and th…

Tesla has YouTube clips, CATL has bots on the ground — right now
Tesla has YouTube clips, CATL has bots on the ground — right now

While Tesla struggles shake off allegations of remote operation for its robots, CATL is putting its new “Moz” humanoid robots to work — the company says it’s got the world’s first large-scale implementation of humanoid robots working at their Zhongzhou…