Meet the C-Turtle Robot: a turtle inspired robot by ASU students that can learn to navigate different types of terrain. It took one hour of learning to walk in the sand. The robot digs hard enough to propel forward but doesn’t create holes.
Here is a robotic suit designed to help post-stroke patients with normal walking. Wyss Institute developed the robot for gait retraining and rehabilitation. This soft, wearable ankle-assisting solution is programmable and discreet:
This exosuit looks more like sports clothing than R2D2, yet it is equally programmable and carries out tasks on command; however, the exosuit is lightweight, flexible, virtually invisible to others, and individualizes itself for each patient.
The above video shows what this approach is all about. More info is available here.
In the future, robots we will be able to read your body language. There are already a bunch of research teams working to make robots smarter in this area. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that understands hand gestures and body movements in real-time. It can also track multiple people.
Meet the Sleepbuddy: an IoT social robot that serves as a babysitter for your kids. The robot was made based on Raspberry Pi and is controlled using a web interface.The interface can be used to customize the robot’s behavior using visual or text-based coding.
Meet Cocktail Bot 4.0: a robotic system that relies on 5 robots to prepare custom drinks for you. It has two conveyor belts and a camera in addition to a 3D printed gripper to grasp the glasses and add ingredients. The robots are synced and controlled by the the FZI MotionPipeline. Users will be able to order using a web-based interface on a tablet. There are more than 20 different drinks that can be ordered.
Meet the SDP Mini RPlidar: a development platform for testing performance of modular autonomous robot localization and navigation systems. It includes SLAMWARE Core, RPLIDAR A2 and Breakout 3.0 board and runs on 8 AA batteries. You also get a SDK that lets you test ideas on various platforms, including Windows, Linux, and iOS.
Meet Hanson Robotics’ Professor Einstein? It is an interactive educational robot designed to teach your kids science. It connects to the cloud and interacts with an iPad or Android tablet. The robot stands 14.5” tall and has over 50 facial expressions. It also features audio direction detection and facial tracking.
Meet the Jimu Robot BuilderBots Kit: another building block system for kids that encourages them to build and program their own robot. It can be used to build GrabberBt, DigBot, and custom bots. Users get a visual interface to program the robot in addition to 3D building instructions.
Meet the Gobe Drone: a smart foldable drone with a 4K camera and carbon fiber propellers that provides you with up to 28 minutes of flight time. It comes with auto-follow, live streaming, return home, and other smart features. You also get lights for flying your drone at night.
Here is a cute robot that wants to be your pet. The Pupbo is a robotic dog with voice commands and ability to learn 12 commands. You can make it pounce, come to you, spin, and do a whole lot more. The SmartBone lets you name your dog and personalize different commands.
