Video Friday Roundup: Two Robots Joined Together and Other Robot News
Source IEEE Spectrum
At a glance
This is IEEE Spectrum's weekly collection of robot videos. It includes a video of two robots linked by a rope moving like a single new robot, a small duck robot that sings in sync with others over Bluetooth, and a test of new video-learning features from Google DeepMind.
Key points
Google DeepMind showed a person playing cornhole (a bag-tossing game), and an Apollo 2 humanoid robot made seven baskets in a row.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now driven the longest distance ever recorded on the surface of another planet.
In China's Ailao Mountains, a four-legged robot helped with an outdoor survey of biodiversity.
The European Space Agency is practicing on Earth how the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover will drive off its landing platform.
Why it matters
These videos show robots learning from video alone and working outdoors and in space, which is quickly becoming reality.
Original article
Video Friday: When Two Robots Become One
IEEE Spectrum · Oct 17, 2026, 1:30 AM GMT+9 · spectrum.ieee.org
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