Here is a robotic rat that uses AI to befriend real rodents. It was developed by researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology in China. It has two front arms, a bionic spine that allows it to take various body postures. It uses wheels instead of hind legs to boost its speed.
We have heard a lot about Tesla’s Optimus Robot in the past few weeks. There have been many demonstrations of it that have us excited. The latest one shows the robot walking on an uneven surface and maintaining its balance. As Elon Musk has explained on X, the robot uses neural networks to control its electric limbs as it walks on highly variable ground:
Optimus can now walk on highly variable ground using neural nets to control its electric limbs.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024
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This is the Iron robot from XPENG: a smart humanoid robot with 200DoF that has more than 60 joints. These robots are already using technology from XPENG’s AI vehicles. It has a human-like structure with an XPENG Turing AI chip for cognitive tasks. It also uses a dynamic motor cortex for coordination.
This is the Ricky & Morty Butter Bot: a cute AI powered desk robot by CircuitMess & GeekClub with voice recognition that sees, hears, and chats with you. It is smart enough to recognize faces and voices and talks back with sound effects.
This is the ROLA PetPal: a modular AI pet robot that uses a 2.5k 5MP camera to capture your pet’s special moments in high resolution. It can be remote controlled with a smartphone. This robot can play laser and other games with your pets. It can also automatically capture and edit your videos.
This is the KR QUANTEC HC: a robot with high payload that is designed for medical technology applications. It has a reach up to 2700mm with brakes in the axes for greater safety. This robot has a pressure sensor and counterbalancing system. It has a pressure sensor to look for anomalies to stop the robot in case of an emergency.
Meet the Bittle X: a palm-sized, open source programmable robot dog with voice and app control. It supports block-based, C++, and Python programming. It has over 35 predefined actions, so it can sit, play dead, and backflip. It also has 10 additional programmable voice commands. The below video shows it in action:
Here is a robotic vacuum for your home that not only picks pet hair but also has a cat laser toy built into its station. The Extravis V5 TangleCutter Robot has 8500pa of suction power. It has a deodorant diffuser and a negative ion emitter to pick up more hair. It also has a smart retracing mop function.
Basketball playing robots are nothing new. We have covered a couple that can make shots with a decent level of accurately. The Toyota CUE6 robot has just set a a new Guinness World Record for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot, managing to make a 80.5ft shot.
The AI-powered Toyota CUE6 has set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot at 24.55 m (80.5 ft). For perspective, a basketball court is about 94 ft long.
The Toyota CUE team’s next challenge is teaching the robot to run and dunk! pic.twitter.com/F93wEHwU1z
— The Humanoid Hub (@TheHumanoidHub) December 4, 2024
CUE6 figured out its own effective throwing style using AI. As you can see in the below video, first attempt was not successful but CUE6 finally pulled it off.
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