Here is a cage-less robot designed to serve as an assistant in gathering, cleaning, and bonding applications. The UR3 can operate in most production environments. It has a 6-axis arm with 3 kg load and working radius of 500 mm. Users can connect grippers and other tools to do more with these robots.
Meet Thermite 3.0 from Howe & Howe Tech: a robotic firefighter that provides first responders a safer experience when dealing with challenging fires. It is small enough to fit in an elevator or drive through a 36″ wide door but can deliver up to 1200 gpm of water or foam at 150psi.
So you want to build your own robots for research? The HCR Mobile Robot Platform has you covered. It is a two wheel drive mobile robot platform with 3 levels. You get motors, wheels, and other accessories you need to start putting it together. According to the company, users can install a Microsoft Kinect on their robot. You can always pick up infrared range sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and other parts to put your robot together.
Meet the Servosila Engineer: a mobile robot for dangerous environments and missions such as disaster response, firefighting, and search a rescue. It has a lightweight metal body and hardened electronics. The robot can be transported in a backpack.
In the future, stores may use robots to greet their customers. This 5S store in central China’s Changsha city not only has a bunch of cool robots, it has a lifelike female robot to greet customers. The store also has a robot butlers, vacuums, and everything in between.
Robots are going to do many things for us in the future, including serving as receptionists. Actroid is a robotic receptionist dressed in a Shinjuku Takashimaya department store uniform that welcomes visitors.
Here is a powered lower extremity exoskeleton that helps disable people move. The Mina Exoskeleton could also prove useful to injured people during the rehab process. The robot has torque controllable actuators at the hip flexion/extension and knee flexion/extension with passive joints.
Robots being used to perform tattoos is not that common. But it’s good to know that researchers are exploring this area. This video from Pier 9 shows an industrial robot programmed to complete a tattoo art without causing any harm.
