Meet the Hovis Genie: a smart robot with a mobile internet device powered by Android to get things done. It offers speech recognition, an audio recorder, a mp3 player, and a camera. The robot can wake you up and provide you with weather and other useful information in the morning. It has distance, touch, and gyro sensors. It can be improved with a ZigBee module.
Meet the Roli Roller: a cool robot kit with 13 female ez-bit connections, allowing you to enhance it. It is powered by 2 motors and can tackle tough terrain. Its wheel and tread heights are adjustable. The robot comes with a camera to offer vision tracking. Your Roli Roller can interact with objects, colors, faces, and motion.
The robot has a clip and play design. Multiple ez-bits can be connected together to make arms and legs. It has 3D printable open source parts and mobile control. More information is available here.
Roomba robots are wonderful tools to use to keep your home clean. They are already pretty smart. Thanks to Thinking Cleaner, you can turn your Roomba robot even smarter. It is a WiFi module that lets you control your robot from your iOS or Android device. To get started, simply change your Roomba’s faceplate with the Thinking Cleaner faceplate. Once installed, your Roomba will send you notifications on the status of your home.
Thinking Cleaner lets you control and schedule your Roomba from anywhere in the world.
Here is a tiny robot that lets you automate things around your home. The Microbot Push is designed to push buttons and switches. It can be used to control computers, washing machines, and other appliances. You can control your robots from your smartphone.
Meet the Robotic Sixth Finger: a wearable limb you can operate with your hand to get more done. The device can be worn on your forearm with an elastic band. It is designed to compensate hand function in post-stroke patients.The below video shows a prototype made using an Arduino and the CyberGlove system.
Meet the URBY: a smart electric board that helps you get around. This self-balancing board has two gyro-sensors to allow you 360-degree turns. It has 10″ wheels for stability. The battery has a max range of 32 km. The URBY board has a max speed of 8.4 MPH.
The NAO Robot is a pretty awesome robot you can program to perform all kinds of tricks. We have already covered it performing dances and other moves. The below video shows a NAO robot riding a scooter:
Meet the NoodleBot: an interesting robot that looks like a cartoon character and makes 4 bowls of noodles in 1 minute. It can make up to 8 different kinds of noodles. The inventor built it in 3 months. The below video shows the NoodleBot in action:
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Here is a LEGO creation that should attract the attention of Star Wars fans. This Micro LEGO AT-TE is motorized and comes with a Power Functions IR receiver, AAA battery box, and one M-motor inside. The good news is the instructions to make it are available online.
The above video shows how this 6-legged walker works. What do you think? How would you improve this?
In the past few months, we have covered a bunch of cool LEGO robot. This robot happens to be a domino row building machine out of LEGO Technic. The machine has a motor that drives a pulley, driving an 8-tooth gear on the other end of a shaft. It has a slider that moves back and forth sliding one domino out of the magazine at a time. The below video shows the machine in action:
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