PickVidsBest Robotics Videos
The 102 Robotics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 7 intermediate, 90 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Boston Dynamics, Tesla, TheDmel.
Slaughterbots
An 8-minute fictional short film, made by campaigners for a ban on autonomous weapons, depicting swarms of cheap AI-guided micro-drones used to kill targeted people.
JuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits
Robin Deits presents the JuliaRobotics organization and shows how Julia is used to visualize, simulate and control a humanoid robot.
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
Tom Scott tours Ocado's automated grocery warehouse, where thousands of robots move boxes on a grid called the Hive, and asks whether they are individual robots or a hive mind.
High-Speed Robot Hand
A short demo from the Ishikawa Komuro Lab of a high-speed robot hand paired with a 1000fps vision system performing dexterous manipulation.
The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"
The full 1973 BBC Lighthill debate on artificial intelligence, featuring James Lighthill, Donald Michie, Richard Gregory and John McCarthy.
Kiva Systems Warehouse Automation at Quiet Logistics
An overview of the Quiet Logistics warehouse using Kiva Systems robots, narrated by company executives.
Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries
A short Insider Tech look at Ocado's grocery warehouse where thousands of robots on a grid pack orders, communicating over 4G to avoid collisions.
DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline
A DEF CON 23 talk on researching whether a commercial quadcopter could be forced to land by interfering with its GPS signal, inspired by a neighbor's kid's drone.
World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen)
Red Bull and the Dutch Drone Gods follow Max Verstappen's RB20 F1 car around Silverstone in a single FPV shot using a custom drone that accelerates to 300 km/h in about four seconds.
Liam – An Innovation Story
A short Apple promotional video about Liam, a robot that disassembles old iPhones so their materials can be recovered.
Tesla Bot Update | Sort & Stretch
A short Tesla clip showing the Optimus humanoid robot sorting objects autonomously and doing yoga-style stretches.
Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test
Short US Missile Defense Agency footage of the December 2008 free-flight hover test of Lockheed Martin's Multiple Kill Vehicle.
Parkour Atlas
A short Boston Dynamics clip of the Atlas humanoid robot doing parkour, jumping over a log and leaping up steps using whole-body control and computer vision to locate markers.
Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight
A demonstration from UPenn's GRASP Lab of an autonomous quadrotor performing flips, flying through windows and perching on surfaces.
MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!
A dramatized fictional video of micro drones with facial recognition and swarm AI used as autonomous killer weapons.
MIT ACL - Variable Pitch Quadrotor
A short MIT Aerospace Controls Lab demo from 2011 of a variable pitch quadrotor flying.
BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)
Boston Dynamics' 2010 demo of BigDog, a quadruped robot that climbs through woods, recovers from kicks, slips on ice and jogs at 5 mph.
Onboard quadrocopter failsafe: flight after actuator failure
ETH Zurich researchers demonstrate a quadrocopter that keeps flying stably after losing a motor and propeller entirely, with the algorithm running onboard while a pilot flies it.
A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge
An IEEE Spectrum compilation of humanoid robots falling over during the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
A No Priors podcast conversation with Andrej Karpathy covering self-driving (Tesla versus Waymo), the Optimus robot, bottlenecks in AI development, and his education project Eureka Labs.
The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'
A demo of the Cubli, a 15 cm cube that uses reaction wheels to jump up onto a corner, balance there and fall in a controlled way to move.
Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
A 2013 research demo of simulated bipedal creatures whose natural gaits are found by optimizing muscle-based controllers, with no motion capture or keyframe animation.
Building the Steam Controller
Valve's short video on building the Steam Controller on a heavily automated assembly line, which the company designed itself.
Introducing Stretch | Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics introduces Stretch, a prototype robot that moves boxes in warehouses and distribution centers.