Here is another Raspberry Pi kit that helps you get started with coding and robotics. The Adeept 4WD Smart Car Kit is ready for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. It comes with objection recognition/tracking and motion detection based on OpenCV. You can control the car with the app.
Meet the FLLEX Robotic Hand: a 15DOF hand with 3 DOF in each finger. It has more degrees of freedom in comparison to its predecessor and no bearings or pins. There is also a 15-axis motor controller developed from scratch for this. The weight has also been reduced from 2.27kg to 1.81kg.
Remember ANYmal? It is a dynamic quadrupedal robot that can take on a wide variety of tasks. As this video shows, it can be programmed to perform sewer inspection by scratching the walls. The robot has a LiDAR and stereo camera to perceive its environment.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of interesting robots that can help with food preparation in the kitchen. This KUKA Kitchen Assistant Robot is also worth a look. It takes care of sorting meal trays in trolleys. The below video shows it in action:
In the past few weeks, we have covered a whole host of robots that can help with disinfecting hospitals/businesses, enforcing social distancing, and reducing the spread of COVID-19. Southern Denmark University (SDU) researchers have managed to build an automatic robot to take mouth swabs to test humans for COVID-19.
In just four weeks, a team of robotic researchers from @SyddanskUni has succeeded in developing a fully automatic robot to carry out mouth swabs to test humans for Covid-19 using among others our cobot to do the trick #Covid19 #SDUtech #LifeLineRobotics #WeAreRobotHeroes pic.twitter.com/JIp3CIen0Z
— Universal Robots (@Universal_Robot) June 2, 2020
Computer vision was used to find the right movement for each throat. The below video shows it in action:
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Meet the HAMR-JR: an agile cockroach inspired robot developed by researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. It is about the size of a penny, measuring 2.25cm in body length, weighing about 0.3 grams.
Meet the UBTECH AIMBOT robot: an anti-epidemic robot with a whole host of features to help stop the spread of the disease. It comes with non-contact temperature measurement, mask detection, and disinfectant sprayer. It has a HD and infrared camera to scan up to 200 people per minute.
Meet the CoDrone Mini: a tiny coding drone that teaches you fundamental programming concepts with Blockly. It can be programmed to fly in patterns and do flips. You can also control its lights. This coding drone can fly for 5 minutes and has a range of 160ft. It comes with a 3-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, and barometer sensor for altitude control.
