Meet ANYmal: a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments. It is capable of climbing and dynamic running. The robot analyzes its environment continuously to create maps and autonomously plan its navigation path.
Meet the RoboBee: a tiny robot that can land and stick to surfaces using static electricity. It weighs only 100mg and can take off and fly when needed. It uses an electrode patch that when supplied with a charge allows the robot to stick to almost any surface. To detach, the power supply is turned off.
Meet the ROBOTERRA Origin kit: an educational kit that enables your kids to build their own robot and learn how to code. It comes with various boxes containing sensors, reusable parts, micro-controller, and other parts you need to get started.
Meet the JumpRoACH: another bio-inspired robot that can crawl and make jumps. This cockroach robot gets the timing right when making a jump. It has self-righting capability. As the below video suggests, the robot can be charged through its shell.
Here is a fireproof aerial robot that can land and climb on walls. It can be used to for structural health monitoring and other complex missions. The below video shows how FAROS can move on a brick wall.
Robots are going to take many jobs from us. That includes doing work at restaurants. This doner kebab robot has an automatic, laser guided rotating knife with multiple settings for different cut quantities. As you can see in this video, it’s pretty fast too!
The good news is these robots still can’t fully replace human workers. More information is available here.
Ping Pong robots are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. The Trainerbot is a smartphone enhanced table tennis robot that gives you direction, spin, and trajectory control. You will be able to program sequences to work on your game.
Meet SNUMAX : a soft robot with transformable origami wheels and a soft manipulator to move around and pick up objects. It has an adaptive gripper to pick up objects. BioRobotics Lab is behind this robot. It has won the RoboSoft Grand Challenge. The below video shows how it works:
The Myo armband is a neat wearable device you can use to control robots, drones, and other smart gadgets. As this video shows, you can use two Myo units to control an industrial robot arm. They detect orientation and gestures, allowing the operator to pick up and manipulate objects with ABB robots.
Drones are going to deliver packages to people in the future. Multiple companies are already working on these ideas. This video shows the DHL Parcelcopter 3.0 delivering packages to a remote part of the Bavarian Alps. It handles deliveries and pick-ups fully automatically.
