Remember the Ascento Robot? It is an agile jumping robot that can move quickly on flat terrain and overcome obstacles. It uses springs and high torque motors to climb stairs and other obstacles. As this video shows, this robot can be used for automatic security patrolling of areas around businesses and properties.
Here is an educational robot designed to provide your kids with a fun learning experience without throwing them in at the deep end. The KIBO 10 Home Edition gives your kids a screen free coding experience. It comes with a robot, two wheels, and two motors. Your kids can customize this robot to anything they want.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of amazing aerial shows with a swarm of drones. This video from Marco Tempest shows an interactive drone swarm management system that can sense the operator’s intent and control drone trajectories accordingly.
This is the RB-CAR from Robotnik: it is an autonomous robot with 680kg towing capacity. This all-terrain robot can be equipped with 3D LiDAR, laser, and other modules. It has front and rear brakes to stop immediately. It can overcome up to 30% slopes. It has max speed of 35 km/h.
In the future, robots will do our laundry. Plenty of companies are working on perfecting them. Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute researchers have come up with an an approach that enables robots to feel cloth layers. A tactile sensor was used to detect pinching 0 to 3 layers of clothes. A classifier was trained on this data set and use it to adjust grasping height.
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Meet the Bunker Pro: an IP67 rated 120kg payload rugged robot that can overcome uneven terrain and slopes up to 30%. It has a 1500W dual-motor drive system and powerful tracked structure.
Birds can delay flights and damage airplanes. The RobotFalcon is an artificial predator drone modeled after the peregrine falcon that can deter flocks of gulls, starlings, and other birds. It not only scares them away but keeps them out for hours. According to the Dutch team researchers behind this, bird blocks didn’t get used to the RobotFalcon over time.
[Credit: Rolf F. Storms, Claudio Carere, Robert Musters, Hans van Gasteren, Simon Verhulst and Charlotte K. Hemelrijk]
Robotic mops are getting smarter and more powerful all the time. Take the Botslab M20 for instance: it is mopping robot with quad pads for more efficient cleaning. It has 200 rpm brushes. It has built-in LiDAR for navigation and can cover 2150 square feet of space.
Meet the Makeblock CyberPi: a smart little gadget that you can use to take your Python and Scratch coding to the next level. Ready for AI and IoT development, this gadget has WiFi/Bluetooth, light sensors, a speaker, microphone, full-color LED display, and a 3-axis accelerometer & gyroscope.
This is Gillbert by Eleanor Mackinstosh: a robotic fish that filters microplastics using its gills. Inside those gills, there is a fine mesh that keeps micorplastics inside the container. In the future, the makers want to make the robot a bit faster. That can be done by adding more power in the tail and further optimizations to the fins.
