Balloon-powered walking robots steal the show at ICRA in RoMeLa's Buoyant Choreographies
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-09-04
RoMeLa's art project "Buoyant Choreographies", shown at ICRA in Atlanta, builds robots out of helium balloons with moving legs that float and walk around. Visitors interact via touch, game controllers, or even blowing air, while the robots respond with color changes, movement shifts, and expressions. The poster calls it one of the coolest robot projects of the year and links the underlying paper.
Related event: Helium balloon robot with walking legs debuts at ICRA(2 posts)→
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