In the past few years, we have covered plenty of research projects involving the iCub humanoid robot. It can perform yoga moves, track objects, and maintain its balance. This video from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia shows how the iCub can now keep its balance while walking, even when pushed by someone.
Meet the Roborock S4 Max: a smart robotic vacuum with LiDAR navigation, 2000Pa suction power, multi-level mapping, and WiFi connectivity that can adapt to any room. It is powerful enough to lift dust from your floors and carpets.
NVIDIA is out with another development kit for AI and robotics. The Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit helps you learn by doing your own AI projects. It has a Jetson Nano module with 2 GB memory that delivers 472 GFLOPS of compute performance with a 128-core NVIDIA Maxwell GPU and 64-bit Quad-core Arm A57 CPU. It comes with USB ports for attaching your peripherals, including USB cameras.
The THeMIS UGV from Milrem Robotics doesn’t need any introduction. It has been covered a lot in the media. The THeMIS UGV Follow-Me kit (MIFK) enables this UGV to follow its operator automatically. The MIFK enables soldiers to concentrate on more important tasks. It also enables obstacle detection & avoidance, waypoint navigation, and mission planning.
Meet the SMP Robotics Picard: a security robot for golf courses that can patrol the area and automatically detect people. It can navigate different terrain such as sand, grass, and gavel. It is equipped with a PTZ camera that rotates and detects people at a distance of up to 100m.
Meet the Apex Baker-Bot: a robotic cake decorator that can easily integrate into existing cake lines. It has a user-friendly interface for easy programming. It can be set up to load and unload pans onto conveyors and baking racks, decorate cakes, and pick and place items with precision.
Meet the Ori Cloud Bed Sofa Edition: a robotic ceiling bed that turns your living room into a bedroom at the touch of a button. The Cloud Bed simply lets you store more things in less space. It can move a queen or king size bed and has a modular design.
Meet the Adeept RaspTank-Pro: a Raspberry Pi robot kit that can teach you a thing or two about programming. The RaspTank-Pro is ready for Raspberry Pi 4, 3B, and 3B+. It has a 3DOF robotic arm, OpenCV tracking, and video transmission.
REE Automotive is out with 3 new fully modular platforms (P1, P2, P4) for EVs of the future. All of them have REEcorner “which powers full X-by-Wire technology for steering, braking and drive, and integrates all drivetrain, powertrain, suspension and steering components into the arch of the wheel” to enable a flat chassis.
Meet XTEND’s SKYLORD HUNTER system: a drone designed to catch hostile drones with a net. It has air-to-air interception capabilities and instant GPS acquisition to target rogue drones. It allows the operators to control it with augmented and virtual reality goggles.
