Robot holiday season videos 2012 (continued)

Our colleagues at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL just sent us a fun video of Santa riding a fixed-wing robot and loosing a present. Luckily, the present can autonomously find its way to its destination.

Our colleagues at the LSRO at Switzerland’s EPFL have sent a great video of their robot Thymio converted into a sushi-go-round for their XMas party:

Colleagues at the AI Lab’s Robotics and Perception Group also sent a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT_UISs6Vgw

Imina Technologies brings us a choir of miBot micromanipulators.

Previously featured on Robohub, General Motors and Kiva Systems feature high-tech robots pretending to be “Santa’s little helpers”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHwGCiUOfgs&feature=share&list=PL5UWrgmuniqLsszErT_s9Gm74MGhx5AyA

Kiva’s video can be found here:
http://www.kivasystems.com/santas-high-tech-helpers/

While the industrial robots work away, Nao has been busy with his xylophone and well wishes.

Aisoy robotics brings us this fun video showing the challenges when filming robots with “personality”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfXxlNZhGM&feature=share&list=PL-NcJDWCD71gWi4Oc1nxGHfpUePcPEP7v

And in case you missed the holiday video from ETHZ featuring balancing, flying and legged robots, here it is.

For more holiday videos, have a look at the ROBOTS Podcast’s Annual Holiday Season Video Special Youtube Playlists. To submit your own, just send us a message at christmas@robotspodcast.com!

Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory