Here is a robot that makes it easy to clean the insides of tanks and industrial assets. HEBI Robotic’s tank cleaning robotic arm has intuitive controls and reduces the strain on the operator. It comes with an inside-tank camera, manual control arm, and a video feed for the operator.
Meet Abel: a humanoid robot designed to read and react to human emotions. It has the appearance of a 12 year old boy. The aim is to use robots like to keep people with autism company. As EuroNews explains, Abel’s frame and head structure was welded by Dutch animatronic designer, Gustav Hoegen.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of teleoperated robots here. Robot Teleoperativo is all about combining the HyQReal robot with a dexterous robotic arm for tele-manipulation of objects. With high precision tracking of the operator’s hand motion, the robot can open doors and perform other tasks.
Here is another robot kit that teaches your kids basics of coding. The KEYESTUDIO Smart Robot Car is made for Arduino. It can be programmed to avoid obstacles and track lines. It can also follow thanks to its ultrasonic sensor.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of fancy robotic dogs here. These videos from Mech-Dickel Robotics show you what it takes to build your own. The goal is to turn mechDOG into a commercial kit in collaboration with RobotShop.
Meet Roxo: a robot that can deliver your orders. This autonomous delivery robot from FedEx comes with 360-degree sensing. It has turn signals, lights, and signaling screens to communicate with cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles.
Here is another Raspberry Pi robot that you can use for more serious programming. The YB Raspberry Pi Robot comes with a Depth Camera and is ready for SLAM navigation. It has a 1080p camera with 120-degree field of view. It is driven on a 10,000mAh battery.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots that can mimic human facial expressions. This video from Columbia Engineering shows an animatronic robotic face driven with learned models. Most current methods involved pre-programmed expressions but those are limited.
For this project, a robotic face with soft skin was used. It has a vision based self-supervised learning framework for facial mimicry. As the researchers explain:
By decomposing the learning process into a generative model and an inverse model, our framework can be trained using a single motor babbling dataset. Comprehensive evaluations show that our method enables accurate and diverse face mimicry across diverse human subjects.
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Picking rocks is a common task for farmers. TerraClear’s Robotic Rock Picker is made to handle it effectively. It can pick 400 rocks per hour with a speed range of up to 3mph. It can pick rocks from 6 to 24 inches, weighing up to 1500lbs. The Rock Picker works on a compact track loader or skid steer. It will soon work on front-end loaders on tractors.
In the past few years, we have seen plenty of cool robot dogs. The ChiTu Quadruped Robot is also worth a look. It is a 12DOF robot with powerful hobbyist servo motors and uses a Raspberry Pi 4B as its brain. The below video shows it moving on a desk.
