IEEE Spectrum Video Weekly: Twin Rotors Forming Quadrotors and Multiple Robot Demonstrations

IEEE Spectrum's "Robotics" Video Friday roundup presents this week's robot videos. The material shows that a quadrotor can be viewed as two twin rotors; NYU Tandon's WorMa changes its center of gravity by pumping water between its head and tail, gaining traction on a 19.5-degree ramp and crossing steps up to 15 centimeters high, while also being able to swim with a basic gait. The roundup also mentions Figure and Agility humanoid robots, the Kubi 2.0 telepresence AI robot, DEEP Robotics' wheeled quadruped, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's underwater quadruped, Japan's Ugo semi-humanoid, UBTECH's smart factory that rolls a humanoid off the line every 10 minutes, MIT's robotic optics lab, NASA Lunabotics, and a CMU swarm robotics lecture. The above information comes from original sources and was compiled by AI.