VEX GO Educational Robot Kit for Kids
Here is another educational robot designed to introduce kids to coding. VEX GO is a STEM construction system with block based coding interface that works on tablets, Macs, PCs, and Chromebooks.
Oliver Smart Cooking Robot
Meet Oliver: a smart cooking robot that helps you prepare delicious meals without having to break a sweat. It has five top loading jars, a water tray, and a mixing arm that sits in the middle. Oliver is smart enough to cook your ingredients at the perfect temperature and releases them at the right time.
PufferBot Expandable Flying Robot
Meet the PufferBot: a flying robot with an expandable structure that changes shape to protect its propeller around obstacles or around humans. It has a 3D printed scissor structure with a 1DOF actuator with rack & pinion mechanism. The approach enables these drones to fly while taking less damage in case of a collision.
PD8X High Performance 8-Rotor Drone
Meet the PD8X from ProDrone: a high performance 8-rotor drone with a water resistant body, hot swappable battery, retractable airframe and object detection that can take on challenging missions. It can be equipped with zoom/infrared cameras, LED search light, and LTE for better performance.
Servi Food Service Robot from Bear Robotics & SoftBank
Meet Servi: a self-driving restaurant robot that can bring food orders to customers, freeing time for your waiters to focus on more important tasks. Servi is agile and uses object detection to get around humans. It uses AI to automate manual work.
iRobot Roomba i3 (3150) WiFi Robot with Alexa
Meet the iRobot Roomba i3 (3150): a smart vacuum cleaning robot that combines with Alexa for seamless integration into your smart home. It has smart navigation to map your home and clean it efficiently. It has sensors to detect which areas need more serious cleaning.
Curly AI Curling Robot That Can Beat Humans
Robots are becoming better at various sports. We have already seen them play ping pong, basketball, and even badminton. Curly happens to be a curling robot that can beat humans. This AI based curling robot uses an adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework to achieve human-life performance.
GENIBOT Coding Robot for Kids (Scratch + Python)
Here is another cute robot that teaches your kids basics of coding. The GENIBOT Coding Robot can be used unplugged or with an iOS/Android app. It supports Scratch 3.0 and Python programming. The robot has line tracing, music, and other modes.
DeKonBot Mobile Disinfection Robot Wipes Door Handles, Elevator Buttons
Meet the DeKonBot: a mobile disinfection robot that can sanitize door handles, light switches and elevator buttons to help stop spread of the disease. It autonomously identifies surfaces to be cleaned thanks to a smart sensor and image processing.
Under-actuated Gripper Developed for Capturing Challenging Objects
Capturing arbitrary shape and challenging objects remains difficult for robots. Researchers at UC San Diego Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab have come up with a new approach to tackle this problem. Their highly under-actuated gripper uses a “gecko-inspired adhesive to provide an adhesion-controlled friction that helps stabilize the gripper and improves grasp performance without the need of large normal forces. The under-actuated linkages conform around arbitrary shapes.”
