In the past few years, we have covered plenty of bio-inspired robots here. This musculoskeletal robot by Suzumori Endo Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology is based on the anatomy of the giraffe’s neck. As you can see in the video, the neck can go forward/back and to the sides.
Meet the Dronut X1: a bi-rotor drone with a collision tolerant design that can perform well in GPS-denied environments. It comes with a bunch of sensors, including a 3D LiDAR and 4K camera. It also has LED lights for operation in the dark.
The Dronut X1 can fly in challenging environments and around sensitive equipment. Here are the specs:
[HT]
Here is another educational robot that can teach your kids coding. The TTS InO-Bot is compatible with smartphones and tablets. It comes with 2 white LED headlights, 8 RGB LEDs, a speaker, a rangefinder and 4 corner proximity sensors. This robot can be programmed with Scratch 2.0 and has an iOS app.
Here is a cute little robot that can copy your every dance move. Sony’s EVAL-03 Robot which was introduced at a robotics exhibit in Tokyo recently. As you can see in the below video from Kazumichi Moriyama, the robot moves its arms and legs just like the human behind it.
Meet the RoboBurger: a robot burger chef in a vending machine that cooks and serves restaurant quality burgers to your visitors. It can be used at airports, malls, offices, and other public spaces. This smart robot has a footprint of 12 sqft. It comes with an automated grill, toaster, and refrigerator.
Robots are already capable of doing many things for us, including cooking and serving our food. Certain delicate tasks can be quite tricky for them though, such as handling soft fruit. This video shows how a robot can be trained with a machine learning algorithm to peel a banana without crushing it.
Meet the Bachin T-A4: a professional drawing and writing robot that can produce human-like handwritten notes and drawings. It can operate a pen and other instruments. It has an open source design and can write in English, Chinese, and other languages. It can also draw a wide variety of shapes.
Meet the Yahboom Transbot Pi: an advanced Raspberry Pi robot kit that you can use for serious programming. It uses Rviz, Movelt, and Qt in ROS. It has a Astra Pro 3D camera for 3D mapping and navigation. This robot has various AI functions, so it can recognize colors, drive automatically, and detect faces.
Meet Panasonic’s Umoz Robot: a moss mobile robot that brings the sensation of life into indoor spaces. It reacts to light to move around. This robot essentially looks like a pot with legs. In sunny weather, the robot looks for a shade while in conditions more favorite for moss, it gets more active.
