Robots are going to do various planetary exploration missions for us in the future. They will have to be able to team up to get things done. This video from DFKI shows a team of robots combined to complete all 4 phases of a lunar lava tube exploration mission.
Meet the Shark Matrix Plus AV2610WA: a smart robotic vacuum and sonic mop that cleans your home without you having to break a sweat. It vacuums carpets and hard floors. It features CleanEdge Detect to take care of debris around edges and corners. This robot also comes with True HEPA filtration to capture 99.97% of dust and allergens.
Stretch is an autonomous mobile robot for warehouses that we covered here a while back. Thanks to Multipack, Stretch can now pick and place multiple boxes (up to 4 at once). It can move multiple boxes with a single swing for higher productivity. Stretch has a perception system that combines with a gripper to consider different candidate groupings of boxes that can be picked together.
The ANYmal robot dog is a versatile robot that can take on uneven terrain. We have covered plenty of projects that involve using it to complete challenging missions. This video shows how this quadruped robot can take on uneven wooden obstacles.
Pretty impressive, don’t you think?
Autonomous vehicles are going to help businesses deal with labor shortages and inefficiencies in the future. Take Honda’s Autonomous Work Vehicle for instance: it is designed to perform repetitive tasks. This fully electric vehicle operates autonomously. It can attach and carry sensors and a camera. As this video shows, this robot recently performed a perimeter fence inspection autonomously.
Robot dogs are going to do many things for us. They are already capable of taking care of inspection and maintenance tasks. US Navy researchers are exploring the idea of using a robotic dog with an arm to perform routine maintenance tasks. The challenge is for this robot to get used to the movement and sway of the ship. The below video shows it in action:
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This is the RobotLAB Botinkit Max: a smart kitchen robot with precise digital controls that enables restaurants to replicate recipes. Thanks to a smart digital cooking algorithm and a FMP taste modeling platform, this robot can replicate any cuisine. This robot can perform temperature control, stir-frying, seasoning, and pot sterilization. This robot can cook 24 hours a day.
The TALOS is a walking humanoid robot that is fully torque controllable. It has torque sensor feedback in all its joints. It has 6kg payload per arm, so it can pick up all kinds of industrial tools. In this video, you can see this robot walking using Model Predictive Control send to a Whole-Body Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller.
Robot mowers are getting smarter and more silent all the time. The SUNSEEKER L22 is a robot lawn mower with app control. It comes with intelligent mapping and app control. It has a rain sensor to detect when it needs to stop. This quiet robot lawn mower has a noise rating of 52dB.
This is the Dobot Magician E6: a desktop grade 6-axis collaborative robot for computer science and engineering students. It comes with collision detection for safe operation. It can be installed on a desk and has a control box with simple external wiring.
