Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots
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. RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY…
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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
Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots
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