Video Friday: Robot Vacuum Tackles Staircase Challenge

Quick Summary

• Event Calendar: Upcoming robotics-related events for 2025 include ACTUATE, CoRL, IEEE humanoids, World Robot Summit, IROS, and others hosted in cities like Seoul, San Francisco, Osaka, Hangzhou.
• Featured Technology:

– Eufy’s vacuum robot with stair-climbing capabilities showcased at ICRA 2024.
– CMU’s LORIS robot climbs walls leveraging rock-sticking technology.
– Humanoid robots progress in control dynamics for tasks in dynamic environments such as table tennis.
– DARPA explores biohybrid robots aiming to outperform synthetic equivalents.
– Germany collaborates on SAMLER-KI micro rovers for lunar missions addressing lunar night conditions.

• Notable Projects:

– ARMstrong Dex hydraulic robot demonstrates exceptional strength beyond human limits lifting >50kg objects.
Robots integrated into healthcare by CMU labs assisting neurological disease or stroke patients enabling independence.

• Fleet optimization demonstrations range over diff robotic niches quadruped climing handling кеп deepstacles

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