Meet the VAPOR 55 MX: an all-electric helicopter with 12lbs payload capacity and flight endurance of up to 70 minutes. It is ready for custom payloads to take on public safety, aerial surveying, and defense applications. This unmanned drone has max payload capacity of 22lbs.
Here is a yard robot that works as a lawn mower, snow blower and blower. The Yarbo Yard Robot features interchangeable modules, intelligent path planning, obstacle avoidance, and real-time monitoring. It comes with RTK-GPS, computer vision, and various sensors to achieve centimeter-grade accurate positioning. No perimeter wire is required.
Here is another cool gift idea for those of you who want a cat but don’t want to actually have to feed or clean after one. The MetaCat is a smart robot cat with dynamic eyes. It comes with realistic actions and sounds. It has 3DOF moving head and tail. This robotic cat lasts up to 6 weeks on battery depending on how to use it.
Meet Dr. LCT: a robotic based orthopedic knee surgery system based on the KUKA LBR Med platform. It has 7 axis and various safety measures that makes it ideal for these types of procedures. This robot has responsive sensors and hygiene optimized surfaces. It has a controller for direct collaboration with the human operator.
Robotic manipulators are being used by many businesses to get tasks done. In order to have them operate around humans, various safety features need to be built in. With SenseSkin, robotic manipulators can detect and avoid collisions. It is a cost effective invisible sensitive skin that can cover a large area without too many sensors. It uses 5 contactless capacitive sensors and specially designed antennas.
Robots are getting smarter all the time. In the future, they will be able to hold natural conversations with humans. This video from Engineered Arts shows the Ameca humanoid robot using GPT-3 and automated speech recognition to generate meaningful answers when asked fairly complex questions.
Here is another robot that you can use to take your coding skills to the next level. The XiaoR Programmable Corgi Robot Dog is ready for block based programming (Scratch 3.0). More advanced students can use it with Arduino IDE. With RPI Extend Box for Raspberry Pi, you can take advantage of its machine vision capabilities.
Meet the Diablo: a direct-drive self-balanced wheeled-leg robot that can transform from standing to creeping mode and jump over obstacles. It has max jumping height of 14cm, max speed of 7.2km/h and payload capacity of 100kg.
Here is an articulated aerial robot that can take on aerial manipulation and grasping tasks. Dragon uses a vectorable rotor unit in each link. It has a unique grasping style with vectorable thrust force used as the internal wrench. As you can see in the below video, this flying robot can detect contact with an object, tilts its rotors inwardly to grab it, and compensates for object mass.
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of awesome Raspberry Pi powered programmable robots here. The DOGZILLA S1 is also worth a look. It is a Python programmable AI robot with various gait motions thanks to its 9-axis IMU and a steering gear angle sensor.
