The Raspberry Pi is a wonderful platform for those of you interested in learning coding, electronics, and DIY robotics. The Adeept DarkPaw lets you use your Pi computer to build a quadruped crawling robot. It comes with a gyro sensor for self-stabilization.
Here is an open source robot platform made for lab automation. The OT-2 pipetting robot can automate life science protocols and produce results accurately. It relies on electronic pipettes to transfer liquids fast and accurately.
Here is a smart drone with SeekIR gas sensors that can be used for oil & gas leak inspections. SeekOps uses the US-1 drone by Impossible Aerospace to inspect large & complex facilities. The US-1 drone has 78min of flight time. It has max payload of 1.5 lb and speed of 40 mph.
Remember the Skydio R1 drone? It is a self-flying 4K drone that can capture you activities from the air. It can track people and vehicles. The company is planning to bring a more advanced drone to the market soon. Skydio has already posted a notice on a new product that is going to debut in fall. In the meantime, it is posting new videos to show what you can do with these smart drones:
Meet the XiaoR Geek Donkey Car: an open source Raspberry Pi based robot car that is ready for Python programming. It can use a camera to automatically track lines. It is also ready for machine learning with TensorFlow. The Donkey Car comes with a 720p HD camera and app control.
Here is a full-scale Sentry Turret from the game Portal that can open/close, move its weapons, and activate a laser from its eye. It has a camera to track targets and uses 4 Nerf guns to shoot at targets. As ytec3d explains, it took 300 hours of 3D printing to make this.
In the past few years, we have seen a whole host of interesting humanoid robots. This video shows a single-wheeled balancing humanoid robot with dual arms with smooth motion and dexterous manipulation capabilities. This 14 DOF dual manipulation system for the CMU ballbot is made up of 7DOF arms that weigh 12.9kg.
Here is another agricultural robot that can save farmers time and money. The Sweeper Robot is a sweet pepper harvesting robot that can work all day to pick pepper. It uses a camera to detect the right ones to pick. The robot can operate in a single stem row cropping system and is smart enough to find the best way to pick each item.
