Video Friday: Curiosity Rover, Giant Crab Robot, and Drone Umbrella

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. Since its epic landing on Mars in 2012, rappelling down to the surface like a robot commando, the Curiosity Mars rover has been one of our favorite robots of all time, and space. Not only it's an impressive piece of engineering, it's also an amazing exploration tool to help humanity answer questions we've been asking ourselves for a very long time, including: Are we alone?