Video Friday: World Cup Fever, Tricopters of Doom, and Generation Robot

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 few 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. In preparation for Sunday's World Cup final between France and Croatia, ETH Zurich and ANYbotics decided to teach their quadruped robots some soccer moves, which included head shots, bicycle kicks, and the required fake injury (0:07): Alphabet's advanced tech division X has graduated a couple of flying robot projects recently: Loon and Wing. We posted earlier this week about Toyota AI Ventures' call for mobile manipulation startups, and here's a follow-up video with a bit more detail than was in the press release.