Video Friday: Beep! Beep! Roadrunner Bipedal Bot Breaks the Mold

IEEE Spectrum's weekly robotics video roundup features the Roadrunner bipedal wheeled robot, a 15 kg prototype capable of multimodal locomotion that switches between side-by-side and in-line wheel modes and stepping configurations using a single trained control policy. Also covered: NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopter mission and MoonFall lunar drone mission, MIT's electrofluidic fiber artificial muscles for soft robotics and wearables, the open-source MEVIUS2 quadruped robot comparable to Boston Dynamics Spot, DreamWaQ++ multimodal reinforcement learning for quadruped navigation, a MIT wristband for controlling robotic hands, and several other robotics research highlights from CMU, iRobot, and others.