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John Deere 9RX Autonomous Tractor

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Robots are going to make life easier for farmers. We have already covered a bunch of them that can help with picking fruits and weeding. John Deere’s autonomous tractors can take on tilling and other tasks. They have 16 cameras and 2 NVIDIA processors. They have a 360-degree view of their surroundings.

The Autonomous 9RX Tractor enables farmers to focus on more important tasks. According to Agriculture.com, this system can be retrofitted onto existing tractors. The cameras correct themselves without any moving parts, so the tractor works in any condition. It works at 12mph. It uses rugged GPUs for visual processing.

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SwitchBot K20+ Pro Modular Mobile Robot Can Bring You a Drink, Move Things Around

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SwitchBot is behind plenty of handy smart home products. The SwitchBot K20+ Pro is one of the most interesting robots we have seen. It comes with the FusionPlatform, which is a wheeled mobile platform that can move a bunch of things around your home, including a fan, air purifier, UV sanitizer, tablet for streaming, and a lot more. It can even bring you drinks without you having to break a sweat.

Roborock Saros Z70 Folding Arm Robot Vacuum

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Robot vacuums have gotten so powerful over the years that companies are running out of features to add. The Roborock Saros Z70 is a new robot that has a folding robot arm on top, so it can pick up and move items. The OmniGrip arm has 5-axis and 300g capacity. It can be activated through the app.

Roborock’s Saros Z70 Comes With a Foldable Robotic Arm

According to the company, you can choose what the robot arm should interact with through the app. This robot also has advanced navigation, vacuuming, and mopping functions.

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Unitree H1, H1-2 & G1 Upgraded with Open Source Fully Body Motion Dataset

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Unitree is behind some of the best humanoid robots we have seen. It has now announced that its humanoid robots have been updated with an open source full-body motion dataset. The company has posted a video of it on YouTube.

Unitree Humanoid Robots Updated With Open-Source Full-Body Motion Dataset🤗

As the company explains:

This retargeting was achieved through numerical optimization based on Interaction Mesh and IK, considering end-effector pose constraints, as well as joint position and velocity constraints, to prevent foot slippage. 

The database stores the trajectories in CSV format. You can find out more on Hugging Face.

Tesla’s Car Cleaning Vacuum

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Plenty of people did roundups of the best robots of 2024 in the past couple of weeks. Tesla’s Cybercab got a lot of attention last year with a host of exciting features. It will have inductive charging too. What a lot of missed was the fact it will have a cleaning robot that gets rid of the dirt and trash inside the vehicle.

Tesla’s Robotaxi is expected to cost less than $30k per unit. You will have to get a couple of years to get your hands on one. This cleaner robot not only picks up dirt but also cleans the main display as the above video shows.

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LimX’s New Humanoid Robot Can Do Challenging Poses

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LimX Dynamics is behind some of the most versatile robots we have covered (e.g. TRON 1). Its new robot seems to be very flexible, capable of doing the Asian squat and even go from prone to standing by rotating its joints 360-degrees. This powerful robot has anamorphic legs with wide angle flexion and extension.

This robot has more height change rate and power to take on challenging poses. The above video shows it in action.

Lulu Pet Robot from XGO Team

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Luwu Dynamics has come up with a bunch of amazing programmable robots in the past, including the XGO Rider, which is a self balancing wheel-legged robot. The company seems to be working on another cute robot for your home. It has 5 degrees of freedom. It even has a butt you can squeeze to relieve stress.

The Lulu Pet Robot is based on ESP32S3. It will have a camera, microphone and speaker. How much will it cost and when will it be released? That remains to be seen.

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NICOBO Robot Cat That Farts

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Here is one of the cutest robot cats we have seen. Panasonic’s NICOBO is designed to keep you company. It doesn’t require any feeding unlike a real pet but can recognize its owner’s face and respond to voice/touch commands. This robot wags its tail when you pat it.

3D Minimally Actuated Serial Robot

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Here is a 3D robotic arm that uses a mobility motor to advance along the links and an actuation motor to move its joints. The 3D MASR has a passive arm that doesn’t have wires or motors. The actuators moves on the arm and engages the joints and locks them in place. A gripper is attached to it for object transportation.

A three dimensional robotic arm actuated by a "robotic motor"

The 3D MASR weighs only 2.3kg. It has a modular design. 5 joints are actuated by a single mobile actuator.

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Chessnut Move Chess Robot Coming

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Chessnut boards are quite popular among chess enthusiasts. They connect to iOS and Android devices and let users play on Chess.com and Lichess. They also support DGT Pi, ChessBase, and other popular software. The company is now working on a robotic chess board. From the video posted to X, this robot seems quite and fast. Unlike other chess robots we have seen, the Chessnut Move can move multiple piece at the same time.

The board can be ordered with plastic and wooden pieces. It can set up the smarting position on its own. It features full piece recognition. You will still be able to play on online platforms like Lichess and Chess.com. It has a built-in engine and gives hints with LEDs. This chess robot comes with voice control.

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