Here is another cute robot made to teach kids basic STEM concepts. The Dr. STEM Innobot can move forward, backward, and 360 degrees. It has gyroscope, dancing, and programming modes. Kids can program it manually or with a smartphone or tablet.
Meet the Shadow Glove: a smart glove that lets you control a Shadow Dexterous Hand easily. It comes with 6 sensors per glove to provide precise motion tracking. It has a latency of 4ms with streaming rate of 120Hz. It has an open frame design.
This smart glove comes with ROS integration. It is designed not to interfere with your hand movements. The above video shows what you can do with this glove.
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Here is another connected robotic mower that cuts your grass, so you don’t have to. The Ambrogio L60 Elite Mower can overcome slopes up to 26-degrees. It is designed to handle yards up to 2150ft. The L60 Elite robot has a 4-point star blade system. You can control this robot mower over Bluetooth.
Towing heavy loads with multiple robots can become a challenge as they can collide with each other or other objects. This video from Hybrid Robotics explores the idea of a robotic team traveling through narrow spaces while dragging a load with cables. The researchers created decentralized planners per robot to accomplish this. The below video sheds more light on this method:
Meet the ECOVACS DEEBOT T10 Plus: a robot vacuum and mop with 3000Pa suction power, object recognition and avoidance, and TrueMapping 2.0 SLAM tech. It has a front-facing starlight camera that lets you monitor your home live. You can also use this robot to stay in touch with your pets.
Magnetically actuated soft robots are nothing new. Most require an external magnetic field to generate motion. This video shows an electromagnetically actuated soft robot that carries its own magnet to move. It retracts and repels the magnet to generate motion, with its feet transforming this motion into forward locomotion.
Playing soccer with robots is nothing new. We have covered plenty of them here in the past. This video shows the Sox robot cat playing soccer with two Bittle robot dogs. Those two are programmable and run on Arduino. You can program them in C++ or Python. The below video shows them in action:
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Here is a robot with passive elastic legs that can learn to walk in an hour. Inspired by animals, this robot has a
a bioinspired closed-loop central pattern generator “that is designed to elastically mitigate short term perturbations using sparse contact feedback.” With the amount of long term corrective feedback minimized, the robot learns to match the controller to its mechanics and learns to walk in an hour.
Here is another robot kit that introduces you to AI programming concepts. The Hiwonder AI Autonomous Driving Kit comes with an AiNova Robot and WonderCam vision module. It can recognize traffic lights and road signs. This robot also has mp3 audio capability.
Meet the EXO X7 Ranger Plus Drone: a 4K camera drone with a 3-axis gimbal and 360-degree obstacle avoidance capability. It comes with a 1/3.2″ SONY sensor and can capture 2K30fps video and 4k photos. It lasts up to 25 days on battery.
