Meet AIDO: a cute robot with microphones and sensors to keep an eye on your home and serve you. This robot has face and object detection. It has a built-in projector and can manage your schedule. It balances itself on an omni-directional ball.
The robot comes with touch activated controls. You get speech recognition, six microphones, obstacle avoidance, and smart home control. The robot is getting funded on Indiegogo.
Meet the Engino Robotics Pro Kit: an educational product for primary and secondary students that lets them build 6 robots. You can control these robots from smartphones and tablets. The kit comes with sensors, motors, and a total of 243 parts.
Meet the Aeronavics BOT Compact Professional Quadcopter: a robotic drone for farm inspection, sports filming, and other industries. The BOT is rugged and supports cameras up to 1 lbs. The drone has real-time video streaming, GPS, waypoint programming, and a modular setup.
Boston Dynamics is behind many exciting robots. The new Atlas is quite special though. It can operate indoors and outside. This electrically powered and hydraulically actuated robot has sensors in its legs and body to stay balanced. With LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head, the robot can avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, and manipulate objects.
As the above video shows, the robot can negotiate rough terrain and get up after a fall. The above video shows what you can do with it.
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In the past few months, we have covered plenty of awesome drone projects. Intel’s Drone 100 is quite special though. It is about using 100 dancing drones to put on a music and light show. These drones move and paint 3D shapes and messages in the sky. 4 pilots controlled 25 drones for this performance.
Remember the Dash robot? It is a cute, educational robot for kids that you can customize and program from your smartphone. Thanks to the Xylophone for Dash Robot, you can do more with it. This accessory turns your Dash into a Xylophone player. You will be able to compose your own songs or use existing songs.
Here is a robot that gives you a third arm. Developed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, this robotic arm allows musicians to play with three arms. The two-foot long smart arm can be attached to a musician’s shoulder and respond to gestures or the music it hears. It also adapts to its environment.
Meet the LG Rolling Bot: a cute robot ball that lets you keep an eye on your pet and monitor your home via WiFi. It can capture photos or video of your pets while you are away. The Rolling Bot can be controlled from your smartphone. It is expected to work with other smart LG appliances.
Robots are already being used in manufacturing environments to make businesses more operationally efficient. As the below video shows, robots are being used to build Model X units, which happens to be an awesome all-wheel drive vehicle with a 257 miles of range and zero to 60 miles of 3.2 seconds.
Here is a typewriter that can automatically type what you dictate to it. As Zip Zaps explains on YouTube, this typewriter was built using a Smith Corona typewriter, Arduino, and a Pololu servo controller. The code for the project is written in C#.
