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RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY

German Robotics Convention: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY

European Robotics Discussion board: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY

RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

ICUAS 2025: 14–17 Could 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC

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

London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Could 2025, LONDON

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

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

RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer season Faculty: 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, KOREA

Get pleasure from as we speak’s movies!

There may be an immense quantity of potential for innovation and improvement within the subject of human-robot collaboration — and we’re excited to launch Meta PARTNR, a analysis framework that features a large-scale benchmark, dataset and enormous planning mannequin to leap begin extra analysis on this thrilling subject.

[ Meta PARTNR ]

Humanoid is the primary AI and robotics firm within the UK, creating the world’s main, commercially scalable, and protected humanoid robots.

[ Humanoid ]

To enhance our overview paper, “Grand Challenges for Burrowing Tender Robots,” we current a compilation of sentimental burrowers, each natural and robotic. Tender organisms use specialised mechanisms for burrowing in granular media, which have impressed the design of many comfortable robots. To enhance the burrowing efficacy of sentimental robots, there are various grand challenges that should be addressed by roboticists.

[ Faboratory Research ] at [ Yale University ]

Three small lunar rovers have been packed up at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the primary leg of their multistage journey to the Moon. These suitcase-size rovers, together with a base station and digicam system that can report their travels on the lunar floor, make up NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) know-how demonstration.]

[ NASA ]

[ Mentee Robotics ]

What do help robots appear to be? From robotic arms hooked up to a wheelchair to autonomous robots that may choose up and carry objects on their very own, assistive robots are making an actual distinction to the lives of individuals with restricted motor management.

[ Cybathlon ]

Robots can’t carry out reactive manipulation and so they principally function in open-loop whereas interacting with their setting. Consequently, the present manipulation algorithms both are very inefficient in efficiency or can solely work in extremely structured environments. On this paper, we current closed-loop management of a posh manipulation process the place a robotic makes use of a instrument to work together with objects.

[ Paper ] through [ Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories ]

Thanks, Yuki!

When the long run turns into the current, something is feasible. In our newest marketing campaign, “The New Regular,” we spotlight the journey our riders expertise from first seeing Waymo to relishing within the magic of their first experience. How did your first-ride feeling change the way in which you consider the chances of AVs?

[ Waymo ]

[ UCR ]

Though robots are simply instruments to us, it’s nonetheless essential to make them considerably expressive to allow them to higher combine into our world. So, we created a small animation of the robotic waking up—one which it executes all by itself!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

On this stay demo, an OTTO AMR skilled will stroll by way of the important thing variations between AGVs and AMRs, highlighting how OTTO AMRs tackle challenges that AGVs can not.

[ OTTO ] by [ Rockwell Automation ]

This Carnegie Mellon College Robotics Institute Seminar is from CMU’s Aaron Johnson, on “Uncertainty and Contact with the World.”

As robots transfer out of the lab and manufacturing unit and into more difficult environments, uncertainty within the robotic’s state, dynamics, and make contact with circumstances turns into a reality of life. On this speak, I’ll current some latest work in dealing with uncertainty in dynamics and make contact with circumstances, so as to each scale back that uncertainty the place we will but additionally generate methods that don’t require excellent data of the world state.

[ CMU RI ]