Meet the SixthFinger: a soft, wearable EMG controlled robotic finger that allows stroke patients and others dealing with an impairment of the hand grasping function to grab items, lift, and move them. This wearable device gives patients more independence.
Here is an integrated robotic dispensing system that performs faster than conventional sealing systems up to 3x. It has applicators, electrically driven dousers, hoses, a material supply pump unit, and a temperature conditioning unit with programmable features.
Here is a soldering robot designed to enable manufacturers to achieve a higher level of efficiency. The REECO RE-1100 robot features automatic positioning mats, programmable temperature and contact time, and support for different types of tips. It also has a 7″ control panel.
Meet FoldiMate: a laundry folding robot designed to make your life easier. It folds and treat your laundry, using steam to get rid of wrinkles. The machine is capable of folding each item in 10 seconds. The de-wrinkling process adds a few more seconds to the process though.
Meet the LT-FREE 5-axis Laser Cutter: a versatile solution that can handle 3D parts, bent or pre-assembled tubes, and flat sheets. It is useful for cutting, drilling, piercing, milling and deburring operations in one cycle. The machine is designed to streamline the production process and cut costs for businesses.
Robots are going to help us explore other planets such as Mars in the future. There are already a bunch of companies working on perfecting these technologies. Would you like to own your own robot crawler? This Mars Rover Robot Crawler can be 3D printed fairly easily. It has directional wheels to be easily maneuvered.
YuMi is a pretty interesting line of robots. These collaborative robots are designed to be safe around people. YuMi has 7 degrees of freedom arms for a 14-axis robotic system with a great deal of flexibility of movement. In this video, this robot is used to solve a Rubik’s Cube.
We have covered plenty of cool humanoid robots here in the past. The HAJIME Robot 9 is another cool robot for competitions. It can move on even and uneven ground. You can teach these robots new moves too. This video shows the HAJIME Robot performing a forward roll.
Teaching kids programming and robotics is going to be easier when you have a smart building set like ROKduino. This kit lets your kids design and build their own robots. It has a drag & drop interface for programming but full Arduino coding is also supported.
In the future, robots are going to cook our food for us. The Moley Robotic Kitchen has been getting a lot of coverage in the media lately. Many of us would love to know even more about it. This video shows what this robotic kitchen is all about. It fits into a regular kitchen and can cook any dish.
