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ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA

Enjoy today’s videos!

To train the next generation of autonomous robots , scientists at Toyota Research Institute are working with Toyota Manufacturing to deploy them on the factory floor.

[ Toyota Research Institute ]

Thanks, Erin!

This is just one story (of many) about how we tried, failed, and learned how to improve our ‪ drone delivery system.

Okay, but like you didn’t show the really cool bit...?

[ Zipline ]

We’re introducing KinetIQ, an AI framework developed by Humanoid, for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets. KinetIQ coordinates wheeled and bipedal robots within a single system, managing both fleet-level operations and individual robot behavior across multiple environments.…