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Starship Robotic Delivery: How It Works

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It was only a few days ago that we covered Starship’s robotic delivery solution. These are robots that can deliver packages within 30 minuets of retail outlets. Starship Technologies has released a new video that shows how these robots work:

Jubie: Robotic Helper Serves Your Guests

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In the future, robots will do even more things for us. You can already use robots to attend meetings across the world. Businesses can use robotic helpers to better serve their customers. Jubie is a helper robot that serves guests and follows your commands. The below video shows it in action:

Drinkinator: Automated Bartender

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We have seen a bunch of robotic bartenders in the past. If you love playing with Raspberry Pi and other DIY electronics platform, you could always build your own. That’s what Next Project Awesome has done. The Drinkinator is an automated bartender with RobotGeek Pumping Stations, a Geekduino, and a Raspberry Pi touch screen interface. You will just have to select your drink and size and let the machine doe the rest.

You can find out more about this project on GitHub.

Ghost Drone 2.0: Easy-to-fly Drone w/ iOS & Android Support

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Meet the Ghost Drone 2.0: an easy-to-fly drone with iOS and Android support. It has a G-Box that connects to your smartphone. It flies for 30 minutes for a 1/2 mile range. You can use Waypoint, Companion, and Avatar modes to put this drone to use. Flying planning is also an option.

BitDrones: Interactive Flying Displays for VR

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In the future, we could use self-levitating, programmable displays for interaction with mid-air virtual objects. BitDrones are interactive flying microbots that could revolutionize how people interact with virtual reality. These drones are available in types: pixel, shape, and display drones. Here is how Queen’s professor Roel Vertegaal explained this project:

Ninebot Mini Pro: Self-balancing Robot Gets You Around

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Meet the Ninebot Mini Pro: a self-balancing vehicle that gets you around. It is pretty easy to ride. You can just lean forward to get moving. The robot has a max range of 30km and max speed of 18 km/h. It can handle a 15-degree steep slope easily and works on normal road surfaces and in wet conditions.

Controlling EZ-Robot JD Robot with Myo Armband

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The EZ-Robot JD is one of many educational robots we covered here in the past. Playing with the robot is already fun, but if you have a Myo, you can use gestures to control your robot. As the below video shows, you can walk the robot by making finger gestures. You can map its arm to your arm and move it around.

MantaroBot TeleMe Telepresence Robot

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Everybody knows that Telepresence robots are very useful tools for people who have to attend meetings remotely all the time. The MantaroBot TeleMe is a telepresence robot that lets you use your iOS or Android tablet to interact with others from a remote location. You will be able to move around the room and view live activities.

Introduction to the MantaroBot TeleMe

This robot lets you hold audio/video teleconferences in any location. It is also useful for catching up with your family members who don’t live nearby. More information is available here.

Drone Autonomously Avoids Trees at 30 MPH

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Drones crashing is nothing new. New drones are becoming more sophisticated in this area though. PhD student Andrew Barry from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has come up with a obstacle-detection system that allows drones to autonomously fly through trees at 30 miles per hour.

ABB Robotics IRB 8700: Large Robot with 800kg Payload

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Meet the ABB Robotics IRB 8700: a large robot with 800kg payload and a faster speed than comparable robots in its class. It is designed with uptime and reliability in mind. The robot can handle heavy and wide objects. Its torque is automatically adjusted for acceleration.

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