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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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.
