Robotic chessboards are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here. Square Off is not the only game in town though. In fact, chess robots have been around for years. The Fidelity Phantom Chess Robot was introduced in the 80s. It can move the pieces on its own and even play against itself.
Meet the Q1 lite 3: a 3D printable robot kit that can teach you a thing or two about technology and coding. This quadruped robot can be 3D printed in 5 hours. It has MG90s metal gear servos for 8DOF movement. It can be controlled with your iOS/Android device.
Meet the Clicbot: another educational robot that can give your kids an interactive learning experience. It has a modular design, so you can build robots that can climb, dance, drive, and do everything in between. It has more than 200 reactions.
Ascento is a two-wheeled robot that can jump over obstacles. With this LQR-assisted whole-body control, the robot can overcome even more challenging environments. As the below video shows, the computationally lightweight controller proposed for this experiment can significantly extend the right-terrain capabilities of this robot.
Meet Haru: an experimental tabletop robot assistant designed to study social robotics. It uses large LCD screen eyes, an LED mouth, and neck movement to express emotions with culturally appropriate social cues. The electronic control board has Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.
Meet the RT-1000 Autonomous Robot Tractor from Left Hand Robotics: a smart machine with multiple attachments that cuts grass and clears snow on its own. It has a Vanguard 37HP EFI engine, weighing 1250 pounds. It uses triple-band GNSS RTK technology to get the job done with accuracy.
Here is another robot that can make coffee for you. Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. and QBIT Robotics showed off a barista robot that can brew cups of coffee on its own. It brings the filter and pours hot water with dexterity. The below video from the Japan Times show it in action:
Meet Hydra: a duct cleaning robot designed for cleaning dust and other dirt in horizontal or round large and medium-sized rectangular ducts.” It has a telescoping cleaning arm and 3-way camera to get the job done. The robot can climb 30-degree obstacles. It can be maneuvered in all directions.
Meet the Yanshee humanoid robot from UBTECH: an open source robot ready to teach students coding. It supports coding in Java, C++, Blockly, Perl, and Python. The robot is extensible thanks to its Raspberry Pi computer. It also has 6 sensors and 17 servos.
