Robot vacuums are getting smarter all the time. Take the Roborock S6 MaxV robot for instance: it comes with twin camera and AI obstacle recognition and avoidance. It has 2500Pa of suction to clean the floor effectively. It can optionally work as a mop.
Meet Moxie: a cute little robot designed to engage your children and help promote social, emotional, and cognitive development through play. It comes with weekly missions and life skills. It can also provide your children with breathing activities, guided meditation, reading activities, and creative play.
We all remember liquid metal robots from the Terminator franchise. While we are decades away from building such a robot, researchers are working on liquid metal lattice materials for aerospace and robotics. As Fanghang Deng, Quang-Kha Nguyen, and PuZhang explain:
These lattice materials consist of liquid metals and elastomers organized in a core-shell manner. This hybrid design induces a shape memory effect by harnessing the solid-liquid phase transition of liquid metals. several remarkable functionalities are achieved such as recoverable energy absorption, tunable rigidity, and reconfigurable behaviors. These liquid metal lattice materials are fabricated by using a hybrid manufacturing approach, which integrates the 3D printing, vacuum casting, and conformal coating techniques.
The above GIF gives you a better idea how these materials work.
There is no better way to learn robotics and coding than building and programming your own bots. This Line Tracking Obstacle Avoidance Mecanum Robot is a simple kit with everything you need to put it together. It has 4 x 60mm Mecanum wheels, a Mega 2560 microcontroller, sensors & tracking modules, and a motor driver board.
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.
