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Video Friday: Biorobotics Turns Lobster Tails Into Gripper

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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.

ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

Enjoy today’s videos!

EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications.

[ EPFL ]

Finally, a good humanoid robot demo!

Although having said that, I never trust videos demos where it works really well once, and then just pretty well every other time.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Thanks, Jinyan!

I understand how these structures work, I really do. But watching something rigid extrude itself from a flexible reel will always seem a little magical.

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