Here is a compact little robot that can treat tight muscles on your back and give you a relaxing massage. The Wheeme Body Massaging Robot gently moves over your body and caresses your back as it rolls. It moves up and down in fluid motion and uses its ridged rubberized wheels to treat your back. It also vibrates to ease aches in your body.
Meet the RSAW: a robot with wave producing mechanism that can traverse challenging surfaces and climb obstacles. It can reach a speed of up to 20 cm/s. This robot produces waves to move on uneven terrain or sideways.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots inspired by nature. The Mole-bot is a directional drilling robot that simulates the mole’s biological structure and behavior for exploration. A localization algorithm is used to estimate the robot’s position and orientation under ground.
We have covered plenty of food preparation robots here. This video from DENSO Robotics shows a high speed SCARA robot for trimming potatoes. It takes 2 seconds for the robot to trim a potato.
Meet the AtlastNEST: a smart drone docking station that facilitates fully automated missions. It is designed for the AtlasPRO UAS to protect it from the elements. It offers automatic battery replacement for take-off in less than 3 minutes.
In the past few months, we have covered a bunch of robots that can enhance your VR experience with haptic feedback. This video from IDH LIRMM shows how a robot arm can be used to give users feedback as they spend time in virtual words.
Robots are already being used to combat COVID-19. In the future, you can expect these machines to help with enforcement of social distancing guidelines and checking people’s temperature. Take Mobile Sentinel for instance: it is an unmanned, networked robot that can read license plates and body temperature.
In the past few years, we have covered a bunch of impressive commercial robot dogs here. Building your own is also a fun project to take on. Take POPI: it is an open source quadruped robot that was built from scratch with a budget of 4k euros.
What’s neat is the developers have made a bunch of awesome information, including drawings, source code, and bill of materials available for the rest of us. More info is available here.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of agricultural robots that can help farmers automate certain tasks. The Greenoid is an autonomous robot with AI for paddy fields. It can turn on a dime and negotiate uneven terrain.
Remember the MVP robot? It is a training dummy for football players that can improve their tackling, increase their agility, and help them master other parts of the game. This self-righting training dummy is remote controlled. The below video shows how these robots can be used to chase quarterbacks, simulate blitzes, and for other QB drills.
