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UC Berkeley’s Morphing Drone Folds Its Arms To Fly Through Narrow Gaps

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Here is a clever drone that uses a passive folding mechanism to reduce its size and fit through narrow gaps. UC Berkeley’s Morphing Drone has its rigid connections between the arms and body replaced by sprung hinges. When low thrust forces are produced by the propellers, the arms fold down, resulting in the size of the drone reducing by 50%.

Design and Control of a Passively Morphing Quadcopter

The above video shows how this morphing quadcopter works.

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TF-19 WASP Turns Your Drone Into a Flying Flamethrower

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Here is a handy module that lets you turn your drone into a remotely operated flamethrower. The TF-19 WASP flamethrower drone module has a range of 25ft and 1-gallon fuel capacity. It can shoot a stream of fire for 100 seconds.

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Catbot: Multifunctional 6-axis Robot Assistant

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Robots are going to do many things for us in the future. They are already capable of taking on boring, repetitive tasks. The CatBot is a robot assistant that can take on such tasks. This 6-axis robot by Elephant Robotics weighs only 18kg and is plug & play. It comes with cloud programming and voice control.

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RoboTiCan’s KTR: Komodo Target Robot for Law Enforcement

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Meet RoboTiCan’s KTR: a target robot designed to train military personnel and law enforcement. It helps prepare them for real time scenarios, so they can take the appropriate response to threats. The Komodo Target Robot can handle dynamic terrain.

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Robotis Engineer Robot Kit

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Robotis is behind a bunch of awesome robot kits for kids and adults. The Robotis Engineer Kit is also worth a look. It has 3 modes and comes with all the parts you need to put your robot together. You can control the robot from your mobile device or PC.

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ACES: Smart Electronic Skin for Robots can Detect Touches 1000 Times Faster Than Human Skin

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Plenty of researchers are working on new ways to give robots a superior sense of touch. The Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES) can give robots and prosthetics a sense of touch better than the human skin. It is made of up a network of sensors connected via a single electrical conductor. As the researchers explain:

ACES can detect touches more than 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system. For example, it is capable of differentiating physical contact between different sensors in less than 60 nanoseconds — the fastest ever achieved for an electronic skin technology — even with large numbers of sensors. ACES-enabled skin can also accurately identify the shape, texture and hardness of objects within 10 milliseconds, ten times faster than the blinking of an eye.

Novel artificial nervous system gives robots an exceptional sense of touch

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DroneGun Tactical: Drone Jammer with Range of 2km

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So you don’t want drones flying around your commercial property? The DroneGun Tactical can help. This rifle like device allows you to control drones without damaging their payload. It has a range of 2km. The drone gun immediately stops video transmission back to the operator. It can disrupt multiple frequency bands simultaneously (433MHz, 915MHz, 2.4GHz & 5.8GHz). It also has optional GNSS disruption capability.

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EX Robots’ Humanlike Robot Anchor

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In the future, we will have robots reading the news and doing many other tasks done by humans today. Take EX Robots’ human-like robot anchor for instance: it is a lifelike robot with a silicone skin over a mechanical skeleton. The company is also working on other robots that can do more than that. 

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3D Printed Tiny Vibration-Powered Robots by Georgia Tech Researchers

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Here is a bunch of tiny 3D-printed robots that move by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators. They are the size of the world’s smallest ant. Swarms of these robots can work together to sense environmental changes and move materials.

As the researchers explain, these micro-bristle-bots “consist of a piezoelectric actuator glued onto a polymer body that is 3D-printed using two-photon polymerization lithography (TPP). The actuator generates vibration and is powered externally because no batteries are small enough to fit onto the bot. The vibrations can also come from a piezoelectric shaker beneath the surface on which the robots move, from an ultrasound/sonar source, or even from a tiny acoustic speaker.”

This Tiny Robot Made at Georgia Tech is Barely Visible

Vibrations move the legs up & down to propel the robot forward. The micro-bristle-bots measure 2mm in length and 1.8mm wide.

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RP2W Generation 7 Vectoring Telepresence Robot

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Here is another robot built for your telepresence needs. The RP2W Generation 7 Vectoring Robot lets you stay connected with people at a different geographical location. It uses a Windows tablet with Skype for two-way audio and video.

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