Robot Videos: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Industrial Robot

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY

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

ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, N.C.

ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA

London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 May 2025, LONDON

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

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

RSS 2025: 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES

ETH Robotics Summer School: 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

IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS

RoboCup 2025: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL

Enjoy today’s videos!

Every time you see a humanoid demo in a warehouse or factory, ask yourself: Would a “superhumanoid” like this actually be a better answer?

[ Dexterity ]

The only reason that this is the second video in Video Friday this week, and not the first, is because you’ve almost certainly already seen it.

This is a collaboration between the Robotics and AI Institute and Boston Dynamics, and RAI has its own video, which is slightly different:

– YouTube

[ Boston Dynamics ] via [ RAI ]

Well this just looks a little bit like magic.

[ University of Pennsylvania Sung Robotics Lab ]

After hours of dance battles with professional choreographers (yes, real human dancers!), PM01 now nails every iconic move from Kung Fu Hustle.

[ EngineAI ]

Sanctuary AI has demonstrated industry-leading sim-to-real transfer of learned dexterous manipulation policies for our unique, high degree-of-freedom, high strength, and high speed hydraulic hands.

[ Sanctuary AI ]

This video is “introducing BotQ, Figure’s new high-volume manufacturing facility for humanoid robots,” but I just see some injection molding and finishing of a few plastic parts.