Meet the Robocar Walk: a fully autonomous single-seat electric vehicle that moves on sidewalks at speeds up to 6kph. It checks the surrounding area and traffic lights for safety. Robocar Walk goes to its preset destinations and returns safely while minimizing risk of accidents.
Robotic birds are nothing new. But not many of them can change their wing shape to fly with more agility. PigeonBot is different. It has soft biohybrid morphing wings with feathers underactuated by wrist and finger motion.
Meet the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime: an app controlled building set with drag & drop interface to teach your kids programming. It comes with bricks, programmable hub, app and lesson plans. It is compatible with Chrome, Windows 10, Mac, iOS, and Android platforms.
Meet the Dobot M1+AGV: a development platform with a modular design that can be used to experiment with robots. It is developed on ROS and can simulate various practical application scenarios, including path planning and material handling.
Here is a wearable robot made to give your head a massage. LEROU is a finger simulated head massaging robot with an adjustable head ring that runs for 3 hours. It can help reduce your stress and calm your mind after a hard day. It weighs only 350g, so you can wear it comfortably.
Meet the RF-160 from Dedrone: a radio frequency sensor for drone detection and threat mitigation. It has increased detection range and integrated LTE. The RF-160 can tell how many drones are in your airspace and detects threats early.
There are plenty of fancy robot hands on the market. Not all of them are capable of handling fragile items without soft custom grippers. DLR CLASH is a sensorized hand for handling delicate objects. It is designed to grasp different groceries.
You don’t always need to use metals to build robots. Scientists from UVM and Tufts have managed to build robots from repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos. Xenobots can move toward a specific target and heal themselves after cut.
As Michael Levin explains:
You look at the cells we’ve been building our xenobots with, and, genomically, they’re frogs. It’s 100% frog DNA—but these are not frogs. As we’ve shown, these frog cells can be coaxed to make interesting living forms that are completely different from what their default anatomy would be
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Meet the CHASING M2: an underwater robot with 8 vectored thrusters that can take on challenging missions. It has a digitally stabilized camera capable of 4K video and 12-megapixel stills, 4000-lumen rated LED lights, and dive rating of 100 meters.
Here is a robot that can draw and write on plaster and glass surfaces. The Scribit comes with app control. Simply hang it on its slim metal wire from two nails, plug it in, and connect the device to your phone. This 2-wheeled robot writes in 8 colors. It can be used to draw a map or custom drawings.
