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.
Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics shows its humanoid robot Atlas picking up and manipulating objects, and altering the obstacle course to reach its goal.
Janken (rock-paper-scissors) Robot with 100% winning rate
A University of Tokyo demo of a rock-paper-scissors robot that always wins, using high-speed vision to read the human hand and respond faster than people can perceive.
Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics
A short Boston Dynamics demo of Handle, a wheeled mobile manipulation robot that builds and unloads mixed-box pallets in a warehouse.
Nagoya Robot Ramen
A short clip of a ramen restaurant in Nagoya where robot arms cook the noodles.
Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER
Slaughterbots, a short dystopian film in which swarms of small autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets matching a profile.
HONDA ASIMO FALLS DOWN STAIRS - Sexy Robots Videos
Short clip of Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot falling down stairs during a live demonstration.
Double Pendulum on a Cart
A TU Vienna demo of a double inverted pendulum on a cart, using constrained feedforward and optimal feedback control for swing-up and point-to-point motion.
Atlas Goes Hands On
Boston Dynamics shows the electric Atlas autonomously moving engine covers between containers and a sequencing dolly.
Robotic Distribution
A short 2009 WIRED clip showing Kiva Systems robots moving inventory shelves in a warehouse serving online retailer Zappos.
Drone Delivery Start-Up Zipline Beats Amazon, UPS And FedEx To The Punch | CNBC
A short CNBC report on Zipline, which has delivered medical supplies by drone in Rwanda since 2016 and is preparing to start in the U.S.
Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar | Price from $16K
A short Unitree promo for its G1 humanoid robot, priced from $16K, showing agile motion, dexterous hands and imitation and reinforcement learning.
You have 20 seconds to comply.
The ED-209 boardroom scene from the 1987 film RoboCop, where the enforcement droid malfunctions after giving a man 20 seconds to comply.
RHex Rough-Terrain Robot
A short Boston Dynamics demo of RHex, a 30-lb six-legged robot built for rough terrain, remotely operated with a video uplink and about four hours of battery life.
Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments
A Seeker short documentary on a lab where robots run experiments with almost no human intervention, covering automation and active machine learning in drug discovery and synthetic biology.
World's first manned flight with an electric multicopter
Footage of the first manned flight of an electric multicopter, flown by Volocopter (then e-volo) in October 2011.
New York City
Team BlackSheep flies FPV (first-person view) model aircraft over New York City, past the Brooklyn and Verrazano bridges, lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights | WSJ
A WSJ report on China's 'dark factories', highly automated plants run by robots with little human presence, visiting Zeekr's EV factory.
1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA
A short clip about DARPA's ARGUS-IS, a 1.8 gigapixel wide-area camera array flown on a Boeing unmanned helicopter.
Autonomous Car Learns To Powerslide Into Parking Spot
A short IEEE Spectrum clip of Stanford's autonomous car Junior learning to powerslide into a parking spot.
Figure Status Update - OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning
A short status-update demo from Figure showing its humanoid robot using OpenAI-powered speech-to-speech reasoning to converse and perform tasks.
Elon Musk unveils plan for 'Tesla Bot' with man dancing in a bodysuit
Guardian News clip of Elon Musk announcing the 'Tesla Bot' at AI Day 2021, with a person dancing in a bodysuit on stage in place of a prototype.
Construction with Quadrotor Teams
A short GRASP Lab (University of Pennsylvania) demo in which teams of quadrotors autonomously assemble tower-like cubic structures from modular parts.
Tesla Bot Update
A one-minute Tesla clip showing multiple Tesla-built Optimus bots walking and learning about the real world.
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
A short demo from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania showing a swarm of nano quadrotors flying in coordinated formations.