So you love battle bots and wish to bring one home? The Pingtec GEIO is an AI fighting robot that you can use to combat against your friends. It has 4 modes of play, so you can speed race, attack, defend, and engage in battles. It comes with a built-in camera for a first person shooter experience.
So you would like to give your robot eyes? Adafruit has shared a guide that shows you what it takes to do just that. It is all about making an animatronic eyeball that can look around. You are going to need a Crickit board, Circuit Playground Express, servos, a ping pong ball, and a few other simple components to pull this off.
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In the past few years, we have seen plenty of interesting combat robots that can make life easier for soldiers on the battlefield. Safran Electronics & Defense is the latest company working on developing land robots for armed forces. This FURIOUS project involves developing robots capable of carrying loads for infantry soldiers and exploring buildings.
Robots are going to play many sports in the future, including table tennis and badminton. We had the chance to cover the Robomintoner here a while ago. The above GIF gives another view of the robot. The system relies on a camera and smart vision system to predict shots and keep up.
Meet the HyQ2Max: an advanced 4-legged robot with 12 joints, aluminum alloy structure, and various gaits that won’t stay down. It measures 1.3m in length. The robot is capable of getting back on its feet after a fall.
Here is another bio-inspired robot with multiple modes that can change its shape to adapt to its environment. The Pillbot has protection and locomotion modes. When in a ball shape, it can be thrown over obstacles. In locomotion mode, the robot moves around to gather data.
Here is a powerful solar robot capable of cleaning beaches of waste and junk. The Dronyx Solarino Beach Robotic Cleaner comes powered by GEL batteries. It can run for up to 3 hours. It consists of a remote-controlled XBOT tracked mobile robot with a rear arm.
The Solarino bot has a working width of 1300mm. It has a stainless steel and aluminum frame.
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Here is another interesting DIY robot idea for Star Wars fans. This Alexa enabled L3-37 droid was made by robot maker Patrick Stefanski. It is 3D printed and responds to the wake word “Hey L3.” In order to build this, you are going to need a Raspberry Pi 3, HS-805BB+ servos, NeoPixels, prototyping board, and a few other simple components.
You can find the code for the robot on GitHub. More info is available on PatchBOTS’ YouTube channel.
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In the future, more robots will be sent to space for exploration. Plenty of companies and organizations are working to perfect them. The project Entern is about technologies required for autonomous operation of lunar robots. The focus is on exploration of craters and caves in space.
There is no better way to learn and master robotics than building and programming your own robot. If you would like to give your robot a hand, you should give the AR10 robotic hand a look. It comes 10 degrees of freedom, USB & Serial connectivity, and an intuitive GUI.
