Robots are going to do many thing for us in the future, including helping people dress up. Zackory Erickson, Henry M. Clever, and their colleagues have come up with a deep haptic model predictive control for robot-assisted dressing. The predictions are made using haptic and kinematic observations from the robot’s end effector.
Here is another vacuum cleaning robot that cleans your floors, so you don’t have to. The Hoover ROGUE 970 comes with Robart mapping. It lets you create virtual boundaries in the Hoover home app. The robot can be accessed from anywhere using a smartphone.
Here is another educational kit that can teach you a thing or two about coding and robotics. Nova is an Arduino based robot that can recognize faces, identify colors, and measure distances. It moves over 5 axes and can be enhanced with additional sensors.
The Scorpion-3 Hoverbike has been covered in the media a lot lately. It is a personal aircraft with a motorcycle seat that takes off the ground and hovers in the air. As the latest Hoversurf video shows, this hoverbike is capable of going up at 5m/s.
Hair transplant procedures are becoming more sophisticated all the time. ARTAS is a robotic hair transplant system that helps physicians with Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) hair transplant procedures. It comes with a robotic arm with a dual punch harvesting mechanism, optical imaging, and a computer terminal networked with the robot’s processor.
Meet Qoobo: a robotic cat like creature with a tail that responds to your interactions and wags its tail. Once you stroke its body, the cat reacts. Unlike a regular pet, you don’t have to feed it or clean its litter box.
Drones are already being used to inspect challenging areas. Sun2ice aims to use solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles to survey glaciers in the Arctic. These flying machines gather data on calving glaciers to give researchers a better understanding of the process.
Exploring underground mines and other challenging environments is going to be much easier with a smart drone like the Flyability Elios. It is a collision-tolerant drone with a HD and thermal camera for inspection jobs. It sends a live video feed to the operator.
The Robugtix T8X is one of the coolest toys money can buy. The company behind it is planning to introduce a new robot, this time for professionals. The W6 is a multi-purpose platform with a weather-resistant construction. It is tough enough to survive industrial environments.
Robots are going to do many things for us. They are already being used by manufacturers to assemble electronics. This video shows a robot installing computer RAM flawlessly thanks to OptoForce 6-Axis F/T Sensors. The sensor has a plug & play installation and offers 6 degrees of force and torque measurement.
