Remember the SpaceX Falcon 9 landing? Someone has made a drone to reenact it all. The SpaceX Falcon 9 Drone was made using Blade Inductrix 200 and custom parts. It has legs that deploy in flight. There is also a removable “flame.” The drone ship is made from 1″ insulation foam.
Robots are going to make our food in the future. There are already a bunch of companies exploring ways to use robots to reduce costs while preparing better products for their customers. Zume is trying to make more profitable pizza using robots. It uses Marta to spread sauce on uncooked pies. Bruno takes these pies and puts them in a 850-degree oven. These robots never get tired and work all day long.
Meet the Moband: a cool universal remote that lets you use simple hand gestures to control IR and Bluetooth devices such as your TV, air conditioner, and smart appliances. The remote comes with 10 preset motions but you can also define your own. The more you use Moband, the better it gets.
Meet the Anki Cozmo: a cute little robot that utilizes AI, advanced robotics, and computer vision to recognize users and play with them. As you play with it, it learns about you. The robot can show how it feels with animated expressions.
Here is a robot that makes it easier to monitor avalanche conditions without having to hike up slopes and perform measurements manually. The Smart Avalanche Rover is designed to minimize the dangers of avalanche analysis. It can be used to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, and other data.
Motion planning for robots with multi-jointed arms is harder than it looks. It requires a fast processor and lots of computation. Duke University researchers have designed a computer processor that can plan up to 10k times faster than existing approaches.
Meet the Mecha X Hand: a customizable robotic hand with CNC machined aircraft aluminum parts that you can use for research and animatronics. You can 3D print fingernails and grasping fingertips for it.
Meet the XYZrobot Bolide: a humanoid robot with 3D printable parts and programmable features that teaches you a thing or two about robots. It can be controlled from a smartphone. With XYZrobot editor, you get to make the robot move as how you like.
The robot has a speaker, card reader, and bunch of sensors. Its built-in accelerometers keep Bolide from falling. The IR sensor detects objects around the robot. Bolide’s smart sensors transmit temperature, speed, and position data. These videos show what this robot has to offer.
Meet the Typhoon H PRO: a drone with Intel RealSense technology that can identify and avoid obstacles intelligently. It 3D scans its surroundings using a RealSense R200 camera and flies around trees and other objects. Typhoon H can remember its environment to avoid collisions in the future.
