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.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots that can negotiate rough, uneven terrain. Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed flexible feet that enable robots to walk up to 40% faster on uneven terrain. The feet are made from coffee grounds in a latex membrane.
In the past few years, we have covered how smart LiDAR modules can be used to enhance robots. The WOXIAOBAI is an autonomous street sweeper with Puck sensors for security and perception.
UVC technology is used at hospitals and work environments for sanitization. The ROVéo UVC is a disinfection robot that can be used at industrial work areas. The robot is capable of focusing its UV beam on areas that need to be sanitized. It adjust the height and tilts its reflectors towards the areas to target.
Meet Erica: a female robot designed as a research platform to study human-robot interaction. She understands natural language and uses synthesized human voice to interact. It also displays a wide variety of facial expressions.
Plenty of robots are capable of moving heavy items. Things are a big more complicated when you are dealing with shifting and rolling payloads. This video from Ghost Robotics shows the GR Vision 60 robot dog with an advanced control system to handle a a shifting 12lbs ball.
There is better way to learn about robots and coding than building and programming your own. The Octo-Bouncer is an advanced bouncing robot that uses smooth stepper motors and image processing to keep bouncing a ping pong ball. We first had a chance to cover it a few month ago. The machine now has a new custom ball detection algorithm, hit position prediction, and tilt control.
For this project, a Teensy 4.0 Microcontroller, 4x StepperOnline DM442S stepper motor drivers, 4x Nema 17 Stepper Motor, an e-con Systems See3CAM_CU135 camera, and a 48V 8A battery were used. You can find out more about this project on Electron Dust’s channel.
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Teaching robots how to hug a person properly is easier said than done. This video from ASU Interactive Robotics shows how a robot teddy bear used an improved Bayesian Interaction Primitives (BIP) approach to learn how to huge a person. It can learn to adapt to different people.
