This is the Dolphin Proteus DX5i: a WiFi connected robotic pool cleaner that can handle pools up to 50ft. It can climb walls and scrub the floor, walls, and waterline of your pool. It combines with the MyDolphin Plus mobile app to let you easily select cleaning mode and put it on a schedule.
Plenty of companies are working to perfecting flying taxis. Rotor X Aircraft has released a new video if its eVTOL flying vehicle that was recently tested in Arizona. This electric lightweight aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license to operate.
This is the KODY 29: an AI cooking robot with 21 cooking modes and 1500+ guided recipes that saves you time preparing all kinds of delicious meals.You can use it to mince, grind, whip, knead your ingredients, and prepare soups, salads, juices, and complete meals. This cooking robot also features automatic cleaning.
This is the ARMAR-6: a collaborative humanoid assistant robot for industrial environments. It can interact with humans and assist them with a variety of tasks. This video shows how these robots can be teleoperated from a distance to pour someone a drink. It can also lift and manipulate various objects.
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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of cool robotic bees here. This one WSU researchers can fly in all directions as it can twist. Bee++ has 4 wings made of carbon fiber and mylar. It can achieve 6 degrees of movement. The below video shows it in action:
This robot weighs 95mg and has a 33mm wingspan. It can fly autonomously for about 5 minutes at a time.
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This is the DALL-E-Bot: a fully autonomous robot with web-scale diffusion models that can rearrange objects in a scene by inferring a text description of them and generating an image representing human-like arrangement of them. This is done with DALL.E without needing any training or data collection.
The robot prompts DALL.E with a list of objects it detects and get an image in return that contains human-like object arrangement.
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Here is another robotic lawnmower that you can control with your smartphone. The KOWOLL Robot Lawn Mower can mow lawn up to 3229.17 square feet per charge. It has a 7.48-inch cutting width and an adjustable cutting height of 0.79-2.17-inch.
Here is an insect inspired robot that can grasp a wide variety of objects. Insecter is tarsus inspired robotic gripper for versatile grasping. It has a “single cable-driven, compliant gripper design.” Soft adhesive pads with an asymmetric sawtooth-like surface structure are attached at the tarsus segments to allow it to grasp and hold objects.
It is no secret that drones are quite handy for exploring remote and hard to access areas. This video from Kostas Alexis shows drones performing under-canopy navigation, exploration and mapping in dense forests. A learning-based navigation approach was used that calculates collision-free actions without access to any form of consistent map. The below videos shows how it works:
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