Here is another smart robot that cleans your pool, so you don’t have to. The Dolphin Advantage Pro Pool Cleaner is ideal for in-ground swimming pools up to 50ft. It comes with WiFi connectivity, so you can easily put it on schedule. The Advantage Pro uses powerful scrubbing to clean the floors, waters, and waterline.
We have seen plenty of researchers working on perfecting lunar rovers. TU Delft’s Lunar Zebro aims to be the first Dutch and European rover to walk on the moon. It takes about the same size as an A4 sheet of paper and uses c-shape legs to move.
Here is a grind deburring cell that uses an ABB IRB 2600 robot and a multiple-purpose end-of-arm tool to remove excess material from die-cast aluminum parts. The MiniMAC Grind Deburring Cell returns each part to the operator when finished. It has a footprint of 5 x 7 x 7′. It comes with robot riser and sheet metal guarding.
Businesses can optionally order a ceiling light package, fume collection hood, and grind dust & particle collector. More information is available here.
A bunch of companies are planning to bring humanoid companion robots to the market in the future (e.g. Tesla). Xiaomi has just announced its CyberOne. It is a humanoid robot that can detect 85 different environmental sounds and 45 human emotions (according to TechCrunch).
I was both nervous and thrilled to interact with him on stage. What did you think of his performance tonight? #CyberOne pic.twitter.com/Je1eXDYEGR
— leijun (@leijun) August 11, 2022
CyberOne can map its environment in 3D. It measures 5’9″ tall, weighing 114 pounds. The above tweet shows what it looks like. You will have to wait a bit for these robots to become ready for consumers. Nevertheless, they will give us a hand in the future in factories and everywhere else.
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of cool robot dogs here. Many of them are smart enough to work autonomously. This video from Chengxu Zhou shows one of these robot dogs being controlled with a smart glove to pick up and dispose items.
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of educational robots for kids. The Yahboom Jetson Nano X3 Plus ROS Robot is made for more advanced students and researchers. It comes with a 7-inch touchscreen display, 6DOF robotic arm, YDLIDAR 4ROS TOF LiDAR and mecanum wheels. This robot also has a ORBBEC Astra Pro depth camera.
You can control this robot with voice. It is ready for mapping, obstacle avoidance, and object recognition. The Rosmaster X3 Plus is based on the ROS operating system. It supports app control and is ready for Python programming.
Here is a set of tiny robots that are faster than cheetahs for their size. Researchers at Johannes Kepler University, in Austria, are behind these tiny, steerable electromechanical robots that can walk, run, jump, and swim. The below video shows these robots in action:
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Meet the Robosen K1 Blue: an app controlled educational robot that can walk, talk, and dance. It has 17 servo motors in its joints to perform a complex sequence of moves. This robot is not only programmable via drag & drop but also manually.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of humanlike robots from Promobot here. The Dunyasha is also worth a look. It is a hyper realistic humanoid robot that greets visitors and invites them to place an order. A cyber cafe with this robot was recently presented at SPIEF 2022.
This cafe offers soft ice cream, coffee, and soft drinks. The above video shows this robot in action.
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Remember the Digit robot? A bipedal robot that can walk on wet, muddy hills, and avoid obstacles dynamically. Agility Robotics has now partnered with Vibram to develop a new sole for this robot to increase stability on variable surfaces while reducing wear and tear. The below video has more information on that:
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