Here is another educational robot made to teach your kids a thing or two about coding. The Yahboom Omibox Robot is ready for Scratch 3.0 programming. It comes with Arduino IDE courses to teach users to build a robot that can follow lines, recognize colors, and sing/dance.
Plenty of companies are working on perfecting robots for the food industry. Bear Robotics’ Penny is a self-driving robot that delivers drinks and foods to customers. It comes with smart indoor navigation, swappable trays, and remote monitoring features. Operators can control multiple robots simultaneously.
Robots are going to replace many jobs in the food industry. They are already being used to flip and serve burgers. The Burger Bot can make gourmet burger without human intervention. It prepares the bun, adds fresh vegetables, sprinkles cheese and seasonings, and cooks the meat.
These are not ordinary burgers. They are designed with the help of local chefs.
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Remember Vera: it is an autonomous electric vehicle that can optimize delivery and transportation for businesses. These machines can analyze what is happening with other road users and respond with high accuracy. Vera doesn’t make a whole lot of noise and comes connected to a control center for continuous monitoring. Volvo has showed a footage of Vera in action:
As the company explains, Vera will transport goods partially on public roads from a DFDS logistics center to a port terminal in Gothenburg.
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Here is another robot that can climb steep slopes and grip onto rough surfaces. The T-RHex has microspines on its feet to grip onto bricks, concrete, and other surfaces. It can hang from vertical walls. As the researchers explain:
The microspines are embedded in 3D printed “toes,” which are in turn glued into laser-cut acrylic leg slices. Each slice is stacked into a fwheg, or forked wheel leg. The body of the robot is bent aluminum sheet, and it includes a hot-formed acrylic tail which we developed to assist in climbing. Each leg is actuated by a Dynamixel MX-64 servo motor, and the tail is actuated by a Dynamixel MX-106.
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Remember the Youbionic Handy? It is a 3D printed robotic hand with 11 active servos that can be programmed through Arduino IDE. It can be 3D printed in PLA. As the latest video by these guys shows, you can mount Handy to a drone to manipulate things.
Here is an open source robot with a TurtleBot 2 chassis that comes with a variety of sensors and tools to help you get started in robotics. The base comes with a docking IR sensor, cliff sensor, bump sensor, programmable LEDs, and various extension ports.
Meet the Dexmo Enterprise Edition gloves: wireless force feedback gloves that let you feel the virtual world with your own hands. They let you feel the size, shape, and stiffness of virtual objects to get a more immersive VR experience. Here is how they work:
Its rotational sensors read hand movement and regenerate a detailed virtual hand model to keep it in perfect sync with the user’s hand motion, allowing users to use their hands virtually. When interacting with virtual objects, our interaction engine computes the magnitude and vector of force and the force-feedback units apply force to user’s fingertips, which imitates the push-back you’d get from real objects.
Dexmo comes with a SDK that supports most popular VR/MR headsets. These gloves are great for gaming, medical training, simulations, and robot teleoperation.
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Here is a guidance system for drones that can improve their awareness. The OleaVision360 is a smart sensor that continuously scans the drone’s surroundings and terrain below. It delivers better situational awareness with a hemispherical field of view.
This sensor allows drones to fly around obstacles with 1cm accuracy. It has a detection range of 20 meters. The OleaVision360 can handle in dust, rain, snow, and total darkness. This sensor is useful for inspection in mining, construction, engineering, and agriculture industries.
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Here is another advanced educational robot that can teach your kids a thing or two about Python coding and robotics. The DJI RoboMaster S1 Robot comes with Mecanum wheels, racing/gaming modes, gesture recognition, people tracking, intelligent sensing armor, and 6 programmable AI modules.
