Meet the Axibo: an AI powered camera assistant that automates camera movement to let you do more in your videos. It has built-in object and subject tracking and is ready for timelapses. It has speeds of 1m/s and 300 degrees/s with payload capacity of 20lbs.
Micro:bit is a wonderful platform for teaching coding to young learners. The Air:bit is a coding drone based on that. It is ready for block based programming but also supports Python. The Air:bit drone can be controlled using an iOS/Android device or a Micro:bit controller. It has a Koskisen birch plywood frame and easily replaceable parts.
Prosthetic limbs are getting advanced all the time. Georgia Tech’s robotic prosthesis has knee and ankle joints. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to anticipate what the user is going to do. Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering professors Greg Sawicki and Aaron Young are working on perfecting this tech. The research group is working on a knee exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy, a hip exoskeleton for stroke victims, and an ankle device for aging adults that restores spring to their step.
Here is another educational kit that teaches engineering and programming to young students. The RoboticsU self-driving robot kit has over 400 pieces. It can be used to build an arcade, balance, scorpion, and rescue bot.
In the past few years, we have covered a bunch of awesome coding robots for kids. The Lebot is designed to work under water. It has a modular design, magnetic connectors, waterproof components, and a floating WiFi antenna. This kit can be used to build a robot boat or submarine.
Security robots are getting more advanced all the time. The Picard security robot uses a smart PTZ camera to detect and track people. It can follow a person and zoom on their face. The camera takes a photo when a facial view becomes available for further recognition.
Here is a coding robot with 260 building blocks that can be used to make a hexapod car, sniper, tank car, mechanical clip, caterpillar tripod, and other fun robots. The Yahboom Building:Bit coding robot supports graphical and Python programming.
There are plenty of fancy robots that can help manufacturers become more efficient. Software plays a big part too. ABB’s PickMaster Twin is a high speed vision-guided random flow picking software that delivers 15% faster picking times.
Self-solving Rubik’s Cubes are nothing new. We have covered a couple of them here in the past. This one is completely hands-free though. The servos and electronics are placed inside the cube. Once the starting position is set, the puzzle automatically solves itself. Magnets are used strategically to levitate it.
