Soft grippers enable robots to grab and handle fragile items. With jamming effect, they rely on varied stiffness to hold the objects tightly. Jooyoung Hong, Dhruv C Mathur, and Joohyung Kim have come up with a lip inspired jamming gripper inspired by animals’ oral structure.
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:
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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.
