Meet the GelSight Mini: a gel-based tactical sensor that can be used by robots and cobots. It comes with digital 2D & 3D mapping. It is Robot Operating System compatible. Python code is made available to engineers and researchers for AI and computer vision tasks.
This is the HP SitePrint construction layout robot: an autonomous robot that can print layouts on the field to save businesses time. It comes with obstacle avoidance and precise performance. This robot has cloud based management.
Here is another kit that comes with almost everything you need to build your own smart robot dog. The Lynxmotion mechDOG Quadruped Robot lets you build a 12DOF robot. It is designed to work with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other sensors. This robot has modular aluminum brackets and G10 body plates.
This is Robosen’s Buzz Lightyear: a programmable interactive robot with 23 high precision servo motors for smooth movement. It has 4 programmable modes, including block based programming. The Buzz Lightyear robot features 200+ original sounds and preprogrammed actions. It has WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity.
Here is another smart robot vacuum with LiDAR navigation and multi-floor mapping that cleans your home without you having to break a sweat. The Uoni V980Plus comes with 2700Pa suction power. It lasts up to 190 minutes on battery.
Meet the myCobot Pro 600: a 6 DOF robotic arm with 2kg payload and Raspberry Pi control. It supports ROS and Python programming. This robot supports drag & teach control. It has plenty of ports for attaching additional sensors for facial & object recognition and more advanced features.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of shape changing robots. A team of researchers at Soochow University have come up with a tiny set of soft robots that can split into tinier bits to pass through small spaces and reassemble. These robots are made of a material that is loosely held together. One can move them through a maze with magnetic fields.
Meet the Loona: a smart robot that can dance, roam your home, follow, and do a whole lot more. It comes with face recognition and body detection. It features trajectory planning, edge detection, and voice recognition. It has a CPU with 5 TOPS of computing power and high definition RGB Camera.
Drones are getting smarter at avoiding collisions but they can still happen, so that still poses a danger to humans and drones themselves. Tombo Propellers are biomimetic drone propellers inspired by the flexibility and resilience of dragonfly wings. As the researchers explain:
The results show that the maximum collision force generated by the proposed Tombo propeller is less than two-thirds that of a traditional rigid propeller
This video from HO lab shows these propellers in action. You can read the paper here.
Meet the eufy Clean G40+: a smart robot vacuum with 2500pa suction power that cleans your floors without you having to break a sweat. It is an ultra-slim vacuum that can easily clean under your furniture. It has a triple-filtration system that reduces exposure to dust.
