Meet the Moveable mHand Adapt: an adaptive prosthetic hand that can handle a wide variety of objects during cooking, gardening, and other activities. It operates without cables and motors. The hand closes when pushing against an object while the fingers automatically adapt to the shape of the object.
Here is a fully 3D printed fingertip haptic device made based on an origami mechanism that uses multiple foldable vacuum actuators and fluidic channels. FingerPrint features:
4-DoF of motion on the finger pad with tunable haptic forces (up to 1.3 N lateral and 7 N normal) and torque (up to 25 N-mm) for skin shear, pressure, and vibro-tactile feedback.
This device comes with a thimble mounting for the fingertip.
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Meet KIME from Macco Robotics: a humanoid robot inside a kiosk that can serve coffee, snacks, cake, and everything in between. It is designed to avoid unnecessary contact with customers. It is made with antimicrobial materials.
Robotic pets are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of robo dogs designed to keep you company. The Maicat is also worth a look. It is an AI robot cat that adapts to your home. It is smart enough to navigate your home on its own.
This robot senses your emotions with its emotional, voice pattern and facial recognition tech. It can recognize different faces. Developers can always come up with apps for it.
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Meet the Robotnik SUMMIT-XL: an autonomous mobile robot with 65kg payload capacity that is ready for indoor and outdoor environments. It can be teleoperated and has a PTZ camera to transmit video in real-time.
Meet the Trailer Valet RVR12: a remote controlled robot that can move trailers, RVs, and boats. It can move up to 12000lbs of load. It uses 2 ultra high torque electric AC brushless motors to get the job done. This RV mover comes with a transmitter with 40ft range. It has push-button arrows for easy controls. Brakes are applied when you are not pressing a button.
The RVR12 runs on a 29.2 volt LiFePO4 battery for up to 30 minutes. It has a max speed of 120ft per minute. You can find out more about it here.
Cleaning solar panels manually is not always an easy task. The HELIOS Solar Panel Cleaning Service aims to address that. It comes with a drone and robot to get the job done. The drone simply places the robot on the solar panels. The HELIOS Cleaning Bot has a lightweight design and can move on inclined surfaces. It navigates autonomously and uses a brush and vacuum for effective cleaning.
Meet the SnailBot: a modular self-reconfigurable robot with 3D continuous docking. It has a ferromagnetic spherical shell with a 6-wheel rocker chassis with magnets. This robot doesn’t require fixed docking locations:
“SnailBot uses the 3D continuous dock to attach to its peers regardless of alignment. This freeform docking mechanism can greatly improve the efficiency of self-reconfiguration and reduce docking failures because there is nearly no constraint in the location of the connector
Owing to the excellent obstacle crossing ability of the rocker-bogie suspension, the robot can freely crawl on other modules in the form of a sliding sphere.”
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots handling food items. This video shows Foodly humanoid collaborative robot using its two arms to sort noodles. The robot has a depth camera built into its chest:
Here is another bio-inspired robot that can traverse multiple types of large obstacles with self-righting capability. The Omni-Roach uses wing and tail motion to get around. As you can see in the below video, this robot uses these motions to get around pillars and beams and overcome bumps.
