In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robotic arms here. RE2’s Human-like Robotic Arms are designed to take on plenty of challenging tasks indoors and outside. It develops single, dual, and underwater mobile robotic arms with rugged, compact designs.
SARS-CoV-2 has devastated many communities around the world. As we go forward, we will need to pay extra attention to disinfect surfaces all around us. The Xenex LightStrike Robot can help. It can combat the Coronavirus with UV. It can destroy dangerous germs and viruses in a couple of minutes.
Hospital staff – and one of our LightStrike Robots from our partner @360lifetech – celebrate the recovery of a #COVID19 patient in Quito, Ecuador! Recoveries have hit the 1M mark worldwide: https://t.co/Guauu9C1K5 pic.twitter.com/pkW9HURMs7
— Xenex Disinfection Systems (@XenexDisinfect) May 1, 2020
The robot uses pulsed xenon light for disinfection. It has triple motion detection for safety. It delivers 4300x more intensity than regular UVC mercury vapor.
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Getting walking robots to recover from a fall is easier said than done. This video from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence shows how the walking robot Charlie can get up from the supine position. The robot first moves from supine position to prone pose. It transitions to standing posture and relies on its 6DOF artificial spine to reach the 4-legged pose.
Meet the SMORES-EP robot: a modular self-assembling robot that can create complex configurations to adapt to a wide variety of tasks. It can change shape to act as a mobile manipulator, RC car, and a whole lot more. The 3-step docking process is based on navigation, pose adjustment, and approach actions.
Here is an advanced robotic prosthetic arm that brings the sensation of touch and feel to amputees. It has direct connection to the user’s nerves, muscles, and skeleton and is mind controlled. All the electronics are contained with its body, so there is no need to carry additional equipment. Here is how it works:
The sensation of touch, is possible through stimulation of the nerves that used to be connected to the biological hand before the amputation. Force sensors located in the thumb of the prosthesis measure contact and pressure applied to an object while grasping. This information is transmitted to the patients’ nerves leading to their brains. Patients can thus feel when they are touching an object, its characteristics, and how hard they are pressing it, which is crucial for imitating a biological hand.
Meet the Misa Robot: a new social robot designed to keep you company. It has a 7″ display, quad core 1.8GHz processor, and WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity. It comes with touch/drop/range/ultrasonic sensors. It comes with dual microphones and HD/AR camera.
Virtual reality environments can be fun to explore but researchers are always looking for ways to make them more immersive. FaceHaptics takes an interesting approach to this issue. It uses a robot arm attached to a VR headset to deliver facial haptics.
The device comes with actuators, rubber tip, and radial fan. Thanks to this, you will be able to feel the leaves brushing your face or wetness of a virtual waterfall.
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