Video Friday: Expressive Robot, Luke Arm, and Cyborg Moth

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. FLASH Robotics has recently previewed its new EMYS robot head. The popping-out eyes are gone in this version, which aims to be more kid friendly, but it remains one of the weirdest looking and most expressive robot heads we've ever seen: This video is part of the DARS 2016 paper, "Programmable Self-Disassembly for Shape Formation in Large-Scale Robot Collectives," by Melvin Gauci, Radhika Nagpal, and Michael Rubenstein.