Video Friday: SpaceX Rocket Mishaps, Robot Puppy, and Lean Robotics

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. If you haven't seen this blooper reel of rocket mishaps from SpaceX, it's spectacular: I love this because it's a reminder that robotics (and space robotics especially) is very very hard, and part of the normal process of discovery and learning is trying things and having them go wrong. What should be a normal part of that process is also sharing the failures on video to help the rest of us feel better about our own projects, so especially if you're doing research, make sure and keep a copy of all of those outtakes, and send them to us! We wrote about Fable when we first saw it at IROS 2014 in Chicago, and a few years later, they've shipped hundreds of robots to customers in Denmark and are now starting to ship to the rest of the world.