Here is a commercial cleaning robot that can wash and vacuum the floor. The CC201 Robot has a fully autonomous mobile robot. It has a cleaning width of 440mm and cleaning speed of 0.2-0.8m/s. It has ultrasonic sensors for safe operation. The robot comes with automatic mapping and route planning.
It is no secret that aibo is one of the cutest robots on the market. It is smart enough to develop its own personality through everyday interactions. you can program this robot with your iOS and Android device through a graphical programming interface. This video gives you a better idea how to go about visually programming your aibo.
Thanks to this graphical interface, you can drop variables, actions, aibo events, and other actions and change their order via drag and drop. More information is available here.
Meet the SwitchBot Blind Tilt: a tiny robot that can automate your blinds. It comes with Alexa, Google Home, and Siri control. This solar powered blinds controller has a light sensor to automatically make adjustments. It is compatible with 99% of horizontal blinds with a wand controller.
Remember the Centauro? It is a versatile robot with 4 legs on wheels that can maneuver in tight spaces, avoid obstacles and perform a wide variety of tasks. It can not only overcome large obstacles but can do so while carrying a considerable amount of weight. In this video, you can see this robot carrying 17kg of weight while stepping up a 30cm platform.
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Here is another educational robot kit made for Raspberry Pi beginners. The Hiwonder ArmPi mini 4DOF Vision Robotic Arm is ready for Python programming. It integrates OpenCV and FPV vision for recognition and tracking. This ArmPi Mini Robotic Arm comes with PC and app control.
This robot has AI games that you can activate with the touch of a button. It comes with a HD 120-degree wide angle camera. You can find out more about it here.
Here is another autonomous robot that can help landscaping contractors deal with labor shortage and reduce costs. RC Mowers’ Autonomous Mowing Robot delivers 60-inch cuts. Here are the specs:
These robots can be controlled with a simple app, which lets you set mowing speed, view fuel status, and pause each mower individually or as a group. These robotic mowers come with object detection and operating range of 500ft.
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of interesting self assembling robots here. MIT researchers have now come up with a method of magnetically programming materials for a more scalable self-assembling robots.
Drilling a hole on a curved surface at different angles manually can be challenging. Alireza Madani, Pouya P Niaz, Berk Guler, Yusuf Aydin, and Cagatay Basdogan are a team of talented researchers who used a KUKA LBR iiwa 7 cobot to assist with the process. The operator can manipulate a drill mounted on the robot with one hand with haptic guidance of the cobot and visual guidance provided through an AR interface. The below video shows how this robot works:
Robots playing soccer is nothing new. Most soccer robots are bipedal. Hybrid Robotics have come up with a reinforcement learning framework that enables quadrupedal robot to play the game, turning them into pretty effective goalkeepers.
As the researchers explain, their reinforcement learning framework:
contains multiple control policies for distinct locomotion skills, which can be used to cover different regions of the goal. Each control policy enables the robot to track random parametric end-effector trajectories while performing one specific locomotion skill, such as jump, dive, and sidestep. These skills are then utilized by the second part of the framework which is a high-level planner to determine a desired skill and end-effector trajectory in order to intercept a ball flying to different regions of the goal.
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