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.
Meet the Narwal Freo: a versatile cleaning robot with a touch LCD station that save you time and effort cleaning dusty rooms. It has 14-degree side brushes, inspired by street sweeper trucks. It is smart enough to adjust downward force and humidity of the mops in various cleaning modes to get the job done more effectively.
Here is an electric motorcycle inspired by robots. Davinci Motor’s DC100 is a self balancing motorcycle with an open source platform. It comes with over 200 sensors and 1000+ chips to collect information about its surrounding environment. The DC100 combines the data to optimize your ride. Here are the specs:
This motorcycle is compatible with L3 DC fast chargers, so you can fully charge it in 30 minutes. It comes with plenty of assist features. The DC100 can detect the angle of inclination to activate the Hill-Start Assist Control or Hill Descent Control. It uses your phone as the key and dashboard.
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Plenty of companies are working to perfect space robots. These robots can work the tools, remove space debris, and perform other tasks. This video shows the GITAI S2 robot being tested for space debris removal. This 1.5m-long autonomous robotic arm system has tool changing capability. It can screw tiny bolts, manipulate flexible materials, and replace components.
Meet the C2D1-rated End of Arm Tool: an automated sander from Aerobotix and FerRobotics with dust collection that eliminates the risk of respiratory infections for workers. C2D1 worksites produce combustible dust that can be quickly ignited if any equipment malfunctions. This AI-conditioned, active force-compliant tool helps keep humans away from hazardous environments. It is based on Active Orbital Kit (AOK) with patented Active Compliant Technolog
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Millirobots are robots about as wide as a finger that could deliver drugs or perform minimally invasive surgeries in the future. Researchers reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials have developed a soft, biodegradable magnetic millirobot that can walk and grab like an insect.
Meet the PuppyPi Pro: an AI vision quadruped robot powered by a Raspberry Pi 4B. It has 8kg stainless steel coreless servos. It comes with iOS and Android support. This robot can walk, trot, and other gaits. It has a HD camera and LD19-TOF LiDAR sensor.
