Video Friday presents a weekly selection of robotics videos from IEEE Spectrum. The featured videos include a disembodied robot hand crawling across a table, MIT CSAIL’s “SoftMimic” approach for safer robots, and a humanoid robot performing a specific home task. The DARPA Lift Challenge is open to the public August 6-9, 2026, at the National Museum of the US Air Force. Agility Robotics demonstrates Digit’s reactive footstep planning around obstacles. Other videos show an aggressive firefighting robot, a robot named Dusty printing on floors, and the Unitree R1, priced at US $4,900. The University of Zurich Robotics & Perception Group discusses event cameras and motion. Harvard SEAS Professor Stephanie Gil explains the possibility of understanding animal language using AI-driven robots. Rodney Brooks of Robust.AI discusses the Roomba and the future of robotics. Presentations from UIST 2025 include everyday objects that move around homes and a project called Buoyancé.