Meet ZOWI: a biped robot designed to get children familiar with technology. This robot can be controlled via Bluetooth. You can reprogram it to teach it new skills. It is also possible to add new sensors and use Bitbloq to get more done with this robot. The below video shows what ZOWI has to offer:
In the past few months, we have covered plenty of awesome educational kits here. The Sensoric Mega Set from Tinkerbots comes with sensors, motors, and everything you need to build cars, animals, and other fun robots. This video shows how you can use the grabber base to add sugar to your drink.
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Meet the Strandmaus: a 8-legged walker inspired by Theo Jansen’s designs. Unlike his design, the Strandmaus uses two Servo City gearmotors to work. Jeremy S. Cook has shared a video of it on YouTube:
So you enjoy playing Piano Tiles on your smart devices but wish you could improve your performance dramatically? You could always rely on a robot to do it. This video from DenverFinn shows a record breaking Piano Tiles performance by a robot. The developer used a Teensy 3.2 to receive tile data and send step/direction data to stepper drivers. The robot has conductive foam on brass bars to touch the screen.
What do you think? Are you impressed?
Meet OceanOne: a humanoid robot with AI and haptic feedback systems to allow pilots to explore the depths of oceans and feel what the robot touches. OceanOne has two arms and stereo vision. It is designed to go very deep underwater.
Multiple car manufactures are exploring the idea of introducing self driving cars. Nissan’s Piloted Drive is an advanced autonomous car that can handle complex driving situations using its 360-degree view camera system. It has laser scanners to navigate in tightest spaces.
Meet MARLO: an ATRIAS 2.1 bipedal robot that walks on tiny passive feet. It does not have a camera to sense the terrain but stays balanced with an advanced feedback control system. It has a joystick controller.
Meet the Hover Camera: a smart device that can capture 4K video and 13MP photos with electronic image stabilization. It uses body and face recognition to follow you. The developers have used an advanced AI to reduce the learning curve for users.
We have had the opportunity to cover GummiArm here in the past. It is a 3D printable robot arm capable of manipulating objects. As the below video shows, it can respond passively and actively when getting hit from a 2-liter bottle.
Here is an Android compatible robot with 17 DoF that lets you perform sweet moves. The Hovis Fighter Humanoid Robot has a Bluetooth module and can perform dynamic moves. You can customize the robot with DR-SIM / DR-Visual Logic programs.
