Meet the MOTA Jetjat Ultra Drone: a compact drone with one touch take-off and landing that combines with your phone to provide you with a fun flight experience. It connects to your phone through WiFi and transmits clear video.
We have seen many interesting and strange Guinness World Records in the past. The latest one involves 1007 robots dancing simultaneously. As you can see in this video, the record was achieved by Ever Win Company & LTD in China.
Meet ATOM: a smart home security robot that auto-tracks intruders and lets you yell at them from your smartphone. It features face detection, 2-way audio, motion/audio detection, encryption, and day/night tracking. 10-second video alert is available under premium plans.
Meet the PadBot T1: a portable robot that combines with your smartphone to let you stay in touch with your pet and loved ones from a remote location. It charges your smartphone and turns it into a telepresence robot. PadBot T1 is ideal for video chatting. It crawls smoothly on the floor and has anti-fall mechanism.
Meet the Bebionic Small hand: a bionic hand with support for 14 grips to make life easier for amputees. It is 30% smaller than its predecessor without any performance sacrifice. It can be used to tie shoelaces and handle things easily.
The Strandbeest by Theo Jansen is truly special. The moving sculpture has inspired many other creations in the past few years. This video shows a StrandBeest Robot in action. It has a wooden construction.
Robots are going to play even bigger roles in combat situations in the future. As this video shows, US Marines’ futuristic combat robots can inspect areas, carry weapons, and keep soldiers out of harm’s way.
Meet the R1 Humanoid: a personal robot made of 50% plastic that measures 1.25m high and weighs around 50kg. It has cameras, sensors, and various motors to move smoothly and serve you. It can extend its body to 1.45m.
Collaborative robots are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of exciting ones here in the past. Intent recognition can make these robots even safer around humans. UMass-Amherst Mechatronics Lab has posted a video that shows how Hidden Markov Models can be used to recognize human intent of rotation in real-time using haptic data measured from a robot.
Meet AIMe: a compact robot that pans and tilts your camera to keep you in the frame. It uses EmIT, an emitter, to track moving objects. You can use the device with smartphones and small cameras under 10 ounces. AIMe pro has even a larger load capacity, capable of handling cameras up to 15 lbs.
To get started, attach an EmIT to a moving object and let the robot do the tracking. AIMe moves up to 100 times per second for responsive tracking.
