Meet the DroneePLANE: an aerial mapping drone that can cover an area of 1000ha. It can achieve a flight time of 45 minutes and speed of 90 km/h. The drone has a EPP foam construction with a wingspan of 90cm. It also carry a RGB, multi-spectral camera for surveying.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of robots handling knives to prepare salads and performing other tasks. This video from Irfon Automation shows how you can program a Staubli TX40 robot to play a knife game. This is a 6-axis industrial robot with repeatability of +/-0.02mm and reach of 515mm.
Those of you who happen to be a fan of Nintendo probably remember the ROB. It came with gyro spinners and attachable claws and could work with a bunch of games. If you happen to have one around, you can use this guide by Adafruit to control it with Circuit Playground Express.
Autonomous boats are going to be used in waterway-rich cities like Venice to move people and goods. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) have already developed a fleet of autonomous robots that can be 3D printed at a low cost.
Cassie from Agility Robotics is an interesting bipedal robot for walking and running. It can be used to deliver things, in search & rescue missions, and places that wheeled robots can’t go. It has a sealed design, so the robot can move in rain and snow. Agility Robotics has shared a couple of new videos that show Cassie in action:
Robots are already being used to automate a variety of tasks for farmers. Octinion’s fully autonomous strawberry picking robot is capable of picking strawberries without bruising them. The robot used 3D vision to detect ripe strawberries. It uses a soft touch gripper to avoid damaging the strawberries.
Here is a badminton robot with a fixed base and robotic arm that can hold a racket and give badminton players plenty of practice. It uses a motion capture camera and reflective tape on the shuttlecock to figure out where to swing.
Here is a drone detecting radar that can detect over 500 threats and their locations simultaneously. The FLIR Ranger R8SS-3D Drone detects land and air objects. It reports the altitude and location of small drones at ranges of 2 miles.
Meet the Atlas Drone: an autonomous, lightweight platform with exchangeable payloads that can take on security, emergency, and inspection jobs. It has a 55-min flight time, 50km range, and 140 km/h speed. It has a weather resistant design and lightweight carbon frame.
There is no better way to learn robotics and electronics than building and programming your own Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects. The Inebriator is a cocktail machine you can build with an Arduino, servo motors, and a few other components. It features addressable LEDs, a console to send commands to the Arduino, and hall effect sensors.
