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. Not everyone managed to get their holiday videos posted in time for us to steal them for the last Video Friday of 2018, so let's just pretend the holidays are still going on, you've eaten too much, your family is driving you nuts, and you can't wait for things to just get back to normal. And if you need 300 days of recovery because of the music, better just hit mute right now.

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. Happy holidays (I guess?) from Robotnik! Watch how ArtiMinds helps Santa to save Christmas.

We're out of calendar events for the year, and next week is our once a year week off, so please enjoy the last Video Friday of 2016, full of all kinds of festive robot celebrations. It's nice to see that an entire team of robots is only slightly better at making Christmas cookies than I am: Somebody really, really needs to let NAO out of the oven. All legged robots should be required to wear cute socks at all times. According to Plymouth University, Plymouth University's Mannequin Challenge video is the best Mannequin Challenge video of all time: You know, I was skeptical at first, but now I kinda believe it. At this point, I don't think that Santa (or the post office) has to worry about Snake Monsters stealing their jobs: If RE2's HDMS robot seems suspiciously capable at decorating things, it's because there's a human on the other end of it: I think if you're a giant robotics company with a marketing budget and stuff, you should be required to put REAL ROBOTS in your holiday videos.