Meet Hunter: an advanced inspection robot that uses magnets to navigate ferrous surfaces. It is designed to perform in environments hazardous to humans. As you can see in this video, the robot can easily navigate on vertical surfaces.
Meet the QL 1200: a petrol-electric hybrid drone that can achieve max flight time of 120 minutes. It has a 6-axis rotor design and FlightSafety assurance system. The QL 1200 comes with infrared obstacle avoidance to reduce chances of accidents occurring.
So you love Android and everything about it? If building robots is your thing, you can use this guide from Techgenie to build a dancing Android robot. You are going to need a dual axis DC motor, ice cream sticks, switch, battery, and a few other simple parts to get started.
Here is another robotic assistant for your smart home. The Sony Xperia Hello! is a smart speaker with animated eyes an an LCD display. It runs an Android OS and can respond to your voice, gestures, and facial expressions. The robot can take photos, remind you of things, and give you traffic/weather alerts.
There is no better way to learn robotics than building and programming your own bots. 98 students from Singapore University of Technology & Design have made a bunch of origami robots that mimic animals. They made a Snailbot, Mini Rabbit, Caterpillar, Stonebot, Jellyfish, and other cool creatures for this workshop.
Meet the Linx prosthetic limb system: an advanced, microprocessor controller prosthesis that can adapt to different terrains. The foot and knee communicate with each other to better serve the users. Linx offers assistance or braking for ascent and descent. Users can change modes with the press of a button.
Meet the Luko: a robotic lamp that can express its emotions with movement and has voice recognition to serve as your assistant. You can adjust its brightness level with voice commands or ask it to project images from Google. As Ben Withers explains, this was made for an Imperial College London’s Human Centered Robotics course.
Meet the TSRWind EOLOS: a wind tower blade inspection system that clings to metal columns using magnets and takes videos and photos without putting any human in a risky position. These robots can carry a high-resolution camera and lens on a pan-tilt unit with 2 degrees of freedom.
Meet the Diso drone: an app-controlled spherical quadcopter with WiFi FPV system, headless modes, and foldable design. In fact, the Diso09 looks like a small ball when folded and can be easily carried in your bag or pocket.
Here is a 3D printed robotic arm that relies on computer vision to pick and place items. As Jesse Weisberg explains, this BCN3D Moveo robot uses real-time object recognition to move apples to the left and bananas to the right. It can be programmed to complete other predefined pick & place movements.
