--- title: Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More description: IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup covers DARPA's Heavy Lift Challenge featuring experimental cargo drone designs, NASA's SkyFall Martian helicopter... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/robot-videos-heavy-lift-cargo-drones-grippers-more-79lwnhr2b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More | daily.dev og:description: IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup covers DARPA's Heavy Lift Challenge featuring experimental cargo drone designs, NASA's SkyFall Martian helicopter... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/robot-videos-heavy-lift-cargo-drones-grippers-more-79lwnhr2b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/79LwNhr2B.png og:image:alt: Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup covers DARPA's Heavy Lift Challenge featuring experimental cargo drone designs, NASA's SkyFall Martian helicopter using ground-penetrating radar to hunt for frozen water, gecko-inspired robotic grippers, Flexiv's multi-fingered robotic hand, Generalist AI's GEN-1 actuator learning improvements (10-20x gains on internal benchmarks), touch-controlled assistive robots via Tac-Nav, and a passive aeroacoustic UAV-following framework called SonicFly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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