Here is another educational kit that gets you familiar with basics of coding. The Kittenbot Micro:bit Robot Car comes with omnidirectional wheels. It supports app control and teaches you coding through play. The Kittenbot robot car kit comes with Microbit + Robotbit Board, battery, case, 4 motors, and everything you need to put it together.
Here is another bionic limb designed to make life easier for amputees. Zeus by Aether Biomedical allows users to pick up objects of different shapes and sizes thanks to its closed loop individual stalling mechanism. 12 grip modes are available for users to choose from. 2 customizable grip modes are also available.
Meet the VAPOR 35 and VAPOR 55: all-electric helicopter UAVs with military-grade components, advanced flight control, and flexible payload options. They can complete missions without an operator and have a modular payload bay with 10lbs capacity.
Meet the Flirtey Eagle: a delivery drone designed to safely deliver packages to customers in less than 10 minutes. The Flirtey Portal is a smart takeoff & landing platform that facilitates store-to-door operations.
The Flirtey Eagle can handle 75% of packages. It delivers packages by lowering its tether. The drone is controlled by an autonomous software platform. The above video shows it in action.
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Here is a soft pneumatic bending actuator for robots that can be used to enhance robotic hands and wearable exosuits. It has an inflatable tube and housing. Tubes are made of a bladder wrapped by textile.
As the researchers explain:
Five actuators were attached to a commercial glove fingers and form a wearable glove, the glove shows different gestures and it is able to hold 9 kg weights. With a larger scale, the bending actuator was able to hold 20 kg.
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Here is another wearable robot designed to take load off workers and increase their productivity. Hyundai Motor Group developed vest-type wearable robot Vex that assists human workers by imitating human shoulder joint:
At 2.5kg, VEX weighs 22-42% less than competing products and is worn like a backpack. The user places their arms through the shoulder straps of the vest, then fastens the chest and waist buckles. The back section can adjust in length by up to 18 cm to fit a variety of body sizes, while the degree of force assistance can be adjusted over six levels – up to as much as 5.5 kgf.
The VEX is expected to go into commercial production in December.
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Here is a drone designed to withstand extreme temperatures for up to 20 minutes. The FAROS Fire Resistant Drone can fly in buildings that are on fire. It can last up to 20 minutes in flames over 1000C.
Meet the ARMstrong robot: a nuclear accident response robot being developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute with dual arms and payload of 100kg on each hand. It has a max speed of 6km/h.
Here is a robot based automation solution that can process carbon, Kevlar, and light alloys. Belotti Integrale was developed in collaboration with KUKA and Siemens. The robots are controlled “by Siemens numerical control through the function Si-numerik Integrated RunMyRobot.” Customers will be able to program robots with ISO language.
The above video shows this robot in action.
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