Here is another cute robot that teaches your kids about programming. The Sphero Mini Soccer STEM Robot can be programmed using a graphical interface or JavaScript. Users can drive it several ways or use it as a joystick for games.
Meet Omron’s Autonomous Mobile Manipulator: a robot platform designed to improve operational efficiency for flexible manufacturing. The collaborative robot arm comes with intelligent vision and fast programming. It supports for external cameras.
Plenty of real estate professionals are using drones to create immersive tours or perform quick inspections. BeesDrone 4.0 from Bees360 is just the app for property inspection. It allows for autonomous drone flights for roof inspection in about 5 minutes. It generates real-time damage assessment reports.
Here is a fleet of autonomous boats that can change shape to adapt to any task. MIT’s fleet of robotic boats autonomously disconnect and reassemble. They have rectangular hulls with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, and other components. As MIT explains, the researchers developed:
an algorithm that enables the roboats to smoothly reshape themselves as efficiently as possible. The algorithm handles all the planning and tracking that enables groups of roboat units to unlatch from one another in one set configuration, travel a collision-free path, and reattach to their appropriate spot on the new set configuration. In demonstrations in an MIT pool and in computer simulations, groups of linked roboat units rearranged themselves from straight lines or squares into other configurations, such as rectangles and “L” shapes
The goal is to use these boats to form a dynamic bridge across a 60-meter canal between the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam’s city center and an area that’s under development. Pretty fascinating, don’t you think?
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Meet the Dogo Mk II robot: a tactical reconnaissance armed robot for special forces and SWAT teams. The robot has a fast point & shoot interface. It can be used with lethal or lethal weapons.
This robot can be armed with a pistol to fire shots at targets. It can also use a light dazzler or pepper spray gun with a range of 10 meters.
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Here is another robot kit designed to teach you coding. The Adeept Quadruped Robot Kit for Arduino lets you build a self-stabilizing robot with Python GUI. It comes with easy to follow instructions to assemble it. You can remote control the robot using an infrared remote control or WiFi based software.
Robots can do many things for us already. ETH Zurich‘s PuppetMaster Robot can control puppets. It is programmed to understand how to puppeteer the marionette via a motion prediction model.
Meet Saira: an intelligent robot assistant that can greet and interact with your guests. It can provide them with useful information and answer their questions. Saira has a touchscreen interface for easy interaction.
Hinamitetu is behind some of the coolest robots we have covered in the past. While robot gymnasts have been his main area of work, his latest work involves basketball robots that can dunk and pass. One robot is used to launch the ball into the air while the other attempts dunks.
So you have a thing for battlebots? Thanks to this HEXBUG BattleBots Build Your Own Bot Kit, you can build and customize your own tank with weapons and armor. It comes with a tank tread power base but you can pick the armor and weapons for your battles.
