Here is a robot plant hybrid driven by a plant’s natural signals toward the light. Elowan has a robotic base and reads signals from the plant using silver electrodes attached to it. Light triggers the plant’s natural signals, which leads to the robot moving closer to the lamp.
Meet the Guardian XO Max: a full-body robotic exoskeleton that enables workers to manipulate up to 200lbs for an extended period of time. It gives workers superhuman strength by making 100 pounds of weight feel like 5lbs. The robot only consumes 400 watts of power while walking at human speed. It can go for up to 8 hours on a single charge.
Meet the TacoBot: a cute coding robot with stackable design that provides over 30 activities for your kids. It has a graphical user interface. You can connect it to your smartphone and use it as a Bluetooth speaker. The TacoBot comes with different hats for various activities (sound, tracking, ultrasonic, button).
So you would like to get your hands on a flying car? If you know your drones, you can always try to build one. A professional drone builder has already pulled that off. The Koncepto Millenya is a 1-seater that can fly for up to 15 minutes. It has a payload capacity of 100kg.
According to the builder, redundancy is built into the system for safety. The frame is made of aluminum and carbon fiber.
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Meet the Intellisaurus bot: a quadruped walking robot kit with Arduino and Raspberry Pi that can teach you a thing or two about programming and AI. As long as you are comfortable with Arduino, you can program the robot.
There are plenty of fancy, expensive drones available on the market these days. This mini basketball drone may be cheap but comes with plenty of features to keep your kids entertained. It comes with app control, HD camera, and control range of up to 100 feet.
Meet the Komodo Target Robot: a smart solution for law enforcement and military trainees. It helps them learn appropriate response to threats. It is ideal for training for in-crowd shooting scenarios. The KTR has a modular structure and can be used over dynamic terrain.
Plenty of robots are inspired by nature these days. Researchers from Cornell University have developed an underwater jumping robot that uses its two appendages to leap above the surface of the water. To develop this robot, researchers studied the physics of jumping aquatic creatures.
Here is a dynamic human-robot interaction system with high-speed vision and a robot hand that can adapt to random human motion at high speed with low latency. It uses machine vision to measure the position and orientation of what is being manipulated by the human and robot.
