So you would like to use your 3D printer to print with food ingredients? The Cakewalk 3D is just the tool for the job. To get started, prepare your mix, pour it into the Cakewalk 3D tube, and attach the unit to your 3D printer. You can use this with chocolate, ketchup, honey, vegetable puree, and everything in between.
Here is a raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail that can achieve superior flight agility. According to EPFL engineers, this drone can adjust the shape of its wing and tail with artificial feathers to change direction fast, fly slower without falling to the ground, and reduce air resistance when flying fast.
Meet Adam’s Hand: a fully-adaptive bionic hand that lets amputees live an independent life. It has a water resistant design (IP44) with adaptive grip technology. It uses one motor to move all the fingers, making them adapt to grasped objects’ shape and size.
Here is another heavy duty robot ready for rough terrain. The SDRRobots Heavy-Duty All-Terrain Wheeled Robot can carry over 200 pounds over rough terrain. It has a max speed of 3mph and uses 4 wheelchair motors.
Meet the iRobot Root rt0: a coding robot for kids 6+ that teaches them basics of coding through play. It has 3 levels of coding, from graphical coding all the way to full-text coding. It has over 20 sensors and functions and can be programmed to drive, draw, and play music.
There is no better way to learn electronics and coding than building and programming your own robots. You can always get inspired by what other makers are doing. Take this PyBot SCARA Robotic Arm for instance: it is a Python coded, Arduino M0 based robot with 5DOF in total.
Meet the MotoMini: a 6-axis robot from Yaskawa that can take on assembly, inspection, and machine tending jobs, helping manufacturers become more operationally efficient. The robot has a payload of 0.5kg, with horizontal and vertical reach of 350mm and 495mm respectively.
Robots and drones have already been used to deliver to medicine and supplies to remote areas in the past. AHEAD (Autonomous Humanitarian Emergency Aid Devices) is a project involving researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center that explores the idea of using robot controlled vehicles to deliver supplies to crisis regions.
Meet the Tally 3.0: Simbe’s autonomous inventory robot that uses autofocus, auto-exposure, and HDR camera systems to navigate and analyze store spaces. It has computer vision and RFID capabilities. The robot is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson GPU platform for real-time shelf data analysis.
Meet the SwingBot: a clever robot that learns how stably handle objects by tilting and shaking them. The robot learns physical features of its item through tactile exploration. It can predict the swing angle of new objects. As the researchers explain:
Two exploration actions (tilting and shaking) provide the tactile information used to create a physical feature embedding space. With this embedding, SwingBot is able to predict the swing angle achieved by a robot performing dynamic swing-up manipulations on a previously unseen object. Using these predictions, it is able to search for the optimal control parameters for a desired swing- up angle.
This robot doesn’t have cameras or any vision system. Its grippers have GelSight tactile sensor to measure force distribution.
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