In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots that can serve food to customers. The ACUR-C is an autonomous robot that can clean up tables. It can pick up and handle a variety of tableware with AI. The below video from Smile Robotics shows the ACUR-C in action:
Meet the ProDrone PDH-GS120: a helicopter drone with 2.5 hours flight time and 15kg payload capacity that can transport goods to remote areas. It can be used with zoom/infrared cameras, LED searchlight, and other modules to adapt to other tasks, including surveillance and even pesticide spraying.
Here is another mobile robot that can automate tasks in factories and warehouses. The OMRON HD 1500 Mobile Robot has 1500kg payload capacity and intelligent 360-degree sensing for safety. It can move pallet-size loads, engine blocks, and other heavy goods and automate tasks that are usually done with forklifts.
Meet the COEX Clover: a programmable open source drone kit that you can put together without any soldering. The drone has 5″ propellers, 72km/h max speed, and max flight time of 15 minutes. It can fly to altitudes up to 500m.
Here is a software application from KUKA that makes spot welding on aluminum components a whole lot easier. It lets you define spin angle and process time or teach your robot the task at hand. The controller calculates the spin velocity and enables the robot to rotate above the tool center point during welding for a higher level of precision.
Agricultural robots are getting more advanced all the time. This video from German Research Center for Artificial intelligence shows how robots can be taught with context-aware navigation to operate autonomously on farms. The robot AROX was used to demonstrate safe farm navigation with a smart map.
As Benjamin Kisliuk from the DFKI Laboratory Niedersachsen explains, the robot “operates with a map, in which the test area is divided into semantic zones based on satellite data and knowledge about the farm. These differ from each other based on the conditions that are applicable for the robot control – including the underground, the usage of the land as well as the presence of people, animals or cars. The control software receives commands for movement and calculates a path through the specific zone.”
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Meet the AeroVironment VAPOR 55: an all-electric unmanned helicopter that can achieve 60 minutes of endurance with up to 10lbs payload capacity. It can be used with a variety of sensors and third party payloads to take on a wide variety of missions.
Robots are being used to perform all kinds of tasks these days, many of which require a change of tools. The KOSMEK Robotic Tool Changer is a versatile add-on that allows a single robot to perform multiple functions by changing its tools.
Here is a robotic fabric developed by Yale researchers that can stand up, stiffen, and soften to change shape to adapt to the task at hand. The idea is to use this approach to make adaptive clothing. In this video, you can see how a robotic tourniquet activates as the sensor in the robot is destroyed.
