Meet the Skydio Dock & Remote Ops: an AI powered drone dock that makes it easier to capture data in challenging environments. It enables drones to autonomously inspect facilities and job sites. The dock works with Skydio drones and Skydio cloud to allow scheduling, live streaming and media storage.
The Xiaomi CyberOne was unveiled to the world just a couple of months ago. It is a humanoid robot that can detect 85 different environmental sounds and 45 human emotions. It can map its environment in 3D. This robot measures 5’9″ tall, weighing 114 pounds. This video shows how the robot can be taught to play the drums:
Meet the Segway Navimow H800E: a robotic mower that cuts your lawn, so you don’t have to. This automated robot mower uses virtual boundaries, so there is no need for complex perimeter wiring. It is not only easy to set up but has a noise rating of only 54dB. You can use your smartphone to adjust the working area for the robot.
This robot has a four module GNSS positioning system. Cutting height is adjustable from 30 to 6mm. This robot can overcome slopes up to 45%. It is IPX6 rated. This particular model is ideal for 800 m2 lawns.
Here is a clever robot that has omni-wheeled and legged modes. It can move in all directions in wheeled mode while in legged mode, it can overcome steps. The OmniWheg has a omni-wheel and 4-bar linkages that enable it to transform between modes. The below video shows this robot in action:
Here is a soft robot capable of detecting when and where it is damaged to heal itself on the spot. Cornell University engineers used fiber-optic sensors with LED lights that can detect changes on the surface of the robot. As explained on Techxplore, a rapid healing polyurethane urea elastomer was also used.
Here is another cute robot that can take your coding skills to the next level. The Petoi Bittle is Arduino IDE compatible and can be coded in C++ or Python. It had 3D puzzle parts, so you can easily put it together. Bittle is based on OpenCat, which is an open source quadruped robot platform.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of cool bio-inspired robots here. This soft swimmer is inspired by the manta ray. This is an energy-efficient soft robot that can achieve a swimming speed of 3.74 body length per second. This is lightweight design weighs 2.8 grams.
This is the MaXXII: a skid-steering tracked robot with autonomous navigation and ROS support. It has rubber tracks to take on outdoor tasks. You can add your own sensors for research and complex tasks. The MaXXII is configured with a 360° Laser Sensor, RGB-D camera, motor encoders, current sensors and RTK GPS. This robot is ready for C/C++ development.
This robot has a 20W headlight. It runs for 4 hours on battery. You can further enhance it with a XSens Mti-300 9DOF sensor and other add-ons. It has 90kg payload capacity.
Robots are going to become a whole lot more agile in the future. Plenty of researchers are working on perfecting them. Learning agile skills can be challenging but imitation learning can make it more easier. A team of researchers have introduced a Wasserstein Adversarial Skill Imitation (WASABI) approach that enables robots to acquire agile behaviors from “partial and potentially physically incompatible demonstrations.”
This is the XiaoR GEEK AI ROS SLAM Robot Car: an educational robot with mecanum wheels that can be programmed with Python. It has a LiDAR module for mapping and navigation. This robot comes with app and gesture control. It is ready for obstacle avoidance, human body tracking, and real-time video transmission.
