Here is another Raspberry Pi robot for more advanced students. The Yahboom Raspberry Pi Robot Tank (Transbot) comes with a Silan A1 LiDAR that can be used for 2D scanning and mapping. This robot can be programmed to detect faces, recognize objects, automatically drive, and navigate your home.
Meet the NEXCON 1G: Black Buffalo 3D’s construction printer that can print the frame of a 1000 sqft home in under 20 hours. It can run for 16 hours straight and is quiet enough to work overnight.
Here is a robot that can mark roads to save human workers time and effort. The TinyPreMarker can be set up in minutes. It is controlled with a tablet. It can be used for road center lines and other similar tasks.
The Digit from Agility Robotics is a bipedal robot that can navigate over wet, muddy, uneven surfaces. It can also avoid obstacles dynamically. This video from Steve Jurvetson show this robot in action:
As you can see, this robot can maintain its balance even on one leg. It has two arms to hold and move packages.
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In the past, we have covered plenty of fancy robot dogs for business and research. Need one for your own DIY projects? This 12DOF Raspberry Pi Robot Dog is worth a look. It measures 53cm long and 30cm tall and can operate for up to 2 hours on battery.
Robots can take on a wide variety of recycling tasks these days. This video from ABB Robotics shows how a YuMi robot can be used to recycle shoes. Every year, 300m shoes are thrown away, creating a big amount of waste. Max Ashford, a design student at ECAL university, has come up with a training shoe that can be robotically recycled.
Every year that goes by, more businesses use robots to make their workers more productive and serve their customers better. Cedars-Sinai is now using Moxi robots to help its nurses. They move around the hospital to assist nurses with time consuming tasks, including delivering lab samples and collecting medicine.
Teaching robots to move a fish from its tank is easier said than done. This video from HEBI Robotic shows how a HEBI R-Series robot arm can be programmed to use two depth cameras to localize a moving fish in a fish tank and catch it.
Here is an affordable 3D printed bionic arm that can make life easier for amputees. It weighs only 1.5 pounds and is made to match your skin tone. It uses vibration cues to give you a sense of touch. This prosthetic arm has 36 sensors in its socket to give you 360-degree residual limb coverage.
Here is a shape changing quadcopter that can reconfigure itself mid-flight. Just like a regular drone, it has 4 motors but changes shape with freely-rotating hinges. Nathan Bucki, Jerry Tang, and Mark W. Mueller are the researchers behind this projects. As they explain:
Morphing is achieved through freely-rotating hinges that allow the vehicle arms to fold downwards by either reducing or reversing thrust forces. Constraints placed on the control inputs of the vehicle prevent the arms from folding or unfolding unexpectedly.
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