Meet the Solar Breeze NX: a solar powered pool skimmer that removes debris such as leaves, pollen, and dust before they reach the bottom. It saves you money on your energy bill while keeping your pool ready to be used at all times.
Meet Zenbo from ASUS: a cute little robot that can entertain and assist you in your home. It responds to your voice commands and can control smart home devices. The robot also has facial expressions. It has a camera for face detection. It moves independently and learns from you to adapt.
In the future, our self driving cars will be able to park themselves and come back to us from the garage automatically. It is also possible to use robots to handle the job. This automated car parking system developed by Yee Fung Technology relies on robotic lifts to move vehicles to their designated place and retrieve them when needed.
Robots are useful tools to use to perform tasks in unknown and dangerous environments. Giving them a flexible spine could make them mechanically robust to impact while preserving human-like performance. This video from DLRRMC proposes an elastic backbone approach to develop humanoid robots for unknown environments.
Meet DonkiBot: an auto following robot that carry up to 100kg of your things right behind you. The robot has following and remote control modes. You can simply drag the tethered sensor to allow DonkiBot to follow you and maintain the proper distance. The bumper has sensors to detect any physical contact and stop.
We have covered plenty of robotic snakes here in the past. They can be used to perform missions in areas not suitable for a human. LaserSnake2 is a robot capable of laser cutting. It was recently used to cut curved and flat mild and stainless steel up to 40mm.
Here is a robot capable of herding animals without disturbing them. Shrimp makes remote or autonomous herding possible. It was used to successfully herd a group of 20 to 150 cows. The robot is designed to negotiate rough terrain. It can detect the motion of the herd around the vehicle in real-time.
Remember the Atlas robot? It is a humanoid designed to negotiate rough terrains. As it turns out, it can also be used to clean homes. In this video, the robot works a vacuum and sweeps the floor.
Robots being able to sort objects based on color and other characteristics is nothing new. We have covered a bunch of interesting projects on it in the past. This video shows a Mitsubishi robot that uses 3 sensors (color, inductive, and distance) to sort 12 objects (wood, bronze, and metal).
Meet the Emily Robotic Lifeguard: a fast-swimming robot that up to 8 people can grab onto in the water. It is 4 feet long, weighing 25 lbs. It is powered by an electric motor, working like a mini-jet ski. The latest version has two-way radios and a video camera with live feed to smartphones.
