Robot Videos: Atlas Robot Sees, Quadrupeds Guide, and More

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.

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

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

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IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, 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

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!

For a humanoid robot to be successful and generalizable in a factory, warehouse, or even at home requires a comprehensive understanding of the world around it—both the shape and the context of the objects and environments the robot interacts with. To do those tasks with agility and adaptability, Atlas needs an equally agile and adaptable perception system.

What happens when a bipedal robot is placed in the back of a moving cargo truck without any support? LimX Dynamics explored this idea in a real-world test. During the test, TRON 1 was positioned in the compartment of a medium-sized truck. The vehicle carried out a series of demanding maneuvers—sudden stops, rapid acceleration, sharp turns, and lane changes. With no external support, TRON 1 had to rely entirely on its onboard control system to stay upright, presenting a real challenge for dynamic stability.

Thanks, Jinyan!

We present a quiet, smooth-walking controller for quadruped guide robots, addressing key challenges for blind and low-vision (BLV) users. Unlike conventional controllers, which produce distracting noise and jerky motion, ours enables slow, stable, and human-speed walking—even on stairs. Through interviews and user studies with BLV individuals, we show that our controller reduces noise by half and significantly improves user acceptance, making quadruped robots a more viable mobility aid.

Thanks, Julia!

RIVR, the leader in physical AI and robotics, is partnering with Veho to pilot our delivery robots in the heart of Austin, Texas. Designed to solve the “last-100-yard” challenge, our wheeled-legged robots navigate stairs, gates, and real-world terrain to deliver parcels directly to the doorstep—working alongside human drivers, not replacing them.

We will have more on this robot shortly, but for now, this is all you need to know.

Some pretty awesome quadruped parkour here—haven’t seen the wall running before.

This is fun, and also useful, because it’s all about recovering from unpredictable and forceful impacts.

What is that move at 0:06, though?! Wow.

Maybe an option for all of those social robots that are now not social?

Oh, good, another robot I want nowhere near me.

While this “has become the first humanoid robot to skillfully use chopsticks,” I’m pretty skeptical of the implied autonomy. Also, those chopsticks are cheaters.

Looks like Westwood Robotics had a fun time at ICRA!

Tessa Lau, CEO and co-founder of Dusty Robotics, delivered a plenary session (keynote) at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) in May 2025.