Robots constructing buildings is nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. Hadrian X is a truck-mounted robot that can lay up to 1000 bricks an hour using a 30 meter arm. The robot has a hand that grabs and puts the bricks where they belong.
In the future, robots are going to play a bigger role in our lives, and we are not talking about our jobs. Robots like Eve will be able to perform home chores. The team behind it has aimed to develop adaptable and affordable robots. Eve robot uses Revo 1 Direct Drive to sense its environment and understand it.
Here is another educational robot kit that you can build and control from your iOS or Android device. The UBTECH Jimu Inventor Robot has Bluetooth. It comes with 675 interlocking parts, 16 digital servos, and step by step instructions in an app with 360 degree pan, tilt, and zoom capability.
So you are tired of seeing unauthorized drones around your business or personal property? With the Battelle DroneDefender, you can mitigate the threat. With GPS and remote control drone disruption, you will be able to deal with hexacopters and quadcopters posing risks to your business.
Meet the FireAnt Hexapod Robot Kit: an Arduino based robot made from aluminum anodized brackets that can sense its environment and adapt to it autonomously. It comes with HV220 robotic servos with position and force feedback. Its legs feel when they are touching something to for autonomous terrain adaptation.
Meet Poppy: an open source bio-inspired humanoid robot with a 5DoF multi-articulated trunk and legs for biped locomotion. It stands 84cm tall, weighing 3.5kg. It has 25 smart actuators, an LCD screen, and 2 wide-angle cameras. Poppy is ideal for research and education.
Meet SPIDER: an autonomous robot that can find damages on the surface of an airship and repair them. It has two magnetic halves, one of which shines light on the airship while the other finds pinholes and patches them. Before and after images are sent to a central hub for analysis.
Here is another amphibious robot from SuperDroid robots with WiFi functionality. It ships programmed and fully assembled. This Amphibious 4WD WiFi Robot is completely waterproof and can navigate land and water. It supports remote monitoring and surveillance with 360 pan and 90 degree tilt camera with 10x zoom.
This robot has a max payload of 25lbs. It weighs 40lbs. More info is available here.
Meet Riley: a smart home robot that lets home owners monitor their property from anywhere. It has a 5MP camera, night vision, speaker, microphone, and grippy tank belts. Riley can be controlled from an iOS or Android device via WiFi. It detects motion and notifies users.
In the past few months, we have covered the Baxter robot performing a variety of tasks. This video shows Baxter being teleoperated using a 5DOF haptic device. The setup consists of two Novint Falcon units. The operator can control the robot to pick up objects. Camera feedback is also available.
