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Georgia Tech’s Robotic Prosthesis Uses AI & Machine Learning To Anticipate Intention

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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.

RoboticsU Self Driving Robot Kit

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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.

Lebot Waterproof Coding Robot for Kids

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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.

Picard Security Robot with Smart Face Detection

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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.

Yahboom 9-in-1 Building:Bit Coding Robot

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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.

ABB’s PickMaster Twin: High Speed Vision-Guided Random Flow Picking Software

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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.

Levitating Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube

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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.

MagLinkage: Robot Actuator for High-Speed Grasping

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Here is an actuator that allows robots to perform high-speed grasping motions. MagLinkage is a low friction and high torque actuator with 1ms torque control and high-backdrivability motion. Robot hands that use MagLinkage can slide and grasp thin objects on a table.

ANYmal Quadrupedal Robot with Wheels Performing Walking/Driving Motions

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In the past few years, we have covered a bunch of tasks the ANYmal robot is capable of performing and learning. Robotic Systems Lab has shared a new video that shows ANYmal with actuated wheels performing dynamic hybrid walking driving motions.

Methods for Precise Control of Snake Like Robots

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Snake robots are capable of entering narrow spaces and climbing obstacles with their long, thin bodies. Controlling their precise movements is not easy when you are dealing with so many actuators. Motoyasu Tanaka and colleagues at the University of Electrocommunications Tokyo have come up with methods to control snake-like robots for 3-dimensional steering, climbing, and manipulating things.

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