Meet the Roboneers Ironclad UGV: an unmanned ground vehicle that can take on combat tasks and medical support missions. This MUGV has off-road engines and a hybrid power plant with low noise and thermal visibility. It comes with an interference-protected communication system.
Robotic lawnmowers are getting smarter all the time. Take the GARDENA smart SILENO Robotic Lawnmower with LONA Tech for instance: it is a smart robot with GPS-based navigation, individual zone management and real-time positioning on smartphones. This robot can mow narrow passages and complex lawns with precision.
Here is a project that focuses on enhancing information flow between underwater robotic systems and subsea assets. The project Mare-IT involves using the Cuttlefish AUV with two robotic arms to interact with subsea structures. The robot can switch between autonomous and semi-autonomous mode.
Here is a chassis with mecanum wheels for your DIY robots. The Hiwonder Vehicle Chassis comes with a wheel chassis, 4 motors, 4 mechanism wheels, and a controller board. It has an aluminum alloy construction, weighing 1.9kg. The below video shows how you can install it:
Robots are going to play more important roles in space flight in the future. Take the RH5 Manus Robot: a humanoid robot developed at the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence that can be used in human environments, such as a future moon station. The aim is to use it to perform assembly work autonomously.
Here is an open source prosthetic leg by the University of Michigan Researchers that can help amputees walk more naturally. This artificially intelligent prosthetic leg uses AI and motors developed for drones. The design, plans to build it and code are freely available.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robot dogs that can take on delivery and reconnaissance missions. China’s Mechanical Yak stands almost as tall as an adult man. It an carry up to 160kg of load. It has a max speed of 10km/hr. As this video from People’s Daily, China shows, this robot can overcome all kinds of road conditions.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of Parrot drones here. The company has announced that its 3D real-time flight simulator is now available to developers. Thanks to SPHINX, developers can now create their own flight missions and test their work in a realistic environment.
Meet the Sulla: a 4ft companion robot with AI and machine learning that can get things done in your home or place of work. This open source robot has an AIML based chatbot. It comes with object recognition, face identification, and vSLAM navigation. You can train the robot manually but this robot is also able to learn new objects on her own.
Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS UGV shouldn’t need any introduction. It is an unmanned ground robot that combines with a variety of modules to help soldiers on the battlefield. As this video shows, it can work with Rheinmetall’s ROSY SGL to launch smoke screens.
