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SOPHIE Soft, Flexible Drone Developed

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In the past few years, we have covered plenty of unique drones, including a few that can change their shape to complete tasks. SOPHIE is also worth a look. It is a soft, flexible drone to interact with its environment. For instance, it can perch on cylindrical surfaces, trees, and other uneven surfaces.

SOPHIE: Soft and Flexible Aerial Vehicle for Physical Interaction With the Environment

[HT: F. Ruiz , B. C. Arrue, and A. Ollero from GRVC Robotics Lab of Seville, Spain.]

QIBBOT Fastest Teleoperated Fighting Robot?

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Credit: QIBBOT

Boxing robots are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. The QIBBOT is the fastest fighting robot we have seen. As you can see in the below video, it is teleoperated and puts on an impressive show of speed. It has an arm measuring 150cm long. This robot stands 190cm tall, weighing 140kg.

World’s Fastest Tele-Robot [VR-Controlled Big Fighting Robot: QIBBOT]

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Teal 2 Drone with FLIR Hadron 640R EO/IR for Night Missions

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Meet the Teal 2 Drone: a sUAS ready for short range reconnaissance missions. It comes with a FLIR thermal camera, so you can use it in night time operations. With IR capability, you can identify targets and track movements of threats. This drone has a compact design. It uses AES-256-bit encryption.

Ozobot Robotic Arm for STEM Education

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Here is another robot designed to introduce kids to engineering and coding concept. The Ozobot Robotic Arm is ready for Blockly and Python programming. This collaborative robot arm has a 18-inch working range. It also has multiple attachments.

This robot will be available in Q3 2023. You can find out more about it here.

Google DeepMind’s RoboCat: Self Improving AI Agent for Robotic Manipulation

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Here is a self-improving AI agent for robotic manipulation that can perform a variety of tasks and self-generates new training data to improve. Google DeepMind’s RoboCat can perform many tasks with multiple robot types. You simply have to show it the desired configuration of objects that serves as the agent’s goal.

Maicat: AI Robot Cat for Home Security

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Meet the Maicat: a cute robot cat that keeps an eye on unexpected events in your home and alerts you on your smartphone. It comes with adaptive AI and reinforcement learning, advanced navigation, and smart object detection. This robot acts as your eyes, so you can see what’s happening in your home.

ioCube Robotic Modules for STEM Education

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Here is a set of robotic modules that teach kids a thing or two about coding. The ioCube magnetic construction kit supports drag & drop programming with Blockly. You can use them to build a remote controlled car or interactive games. You get a laser rangefinder, battery, 8×8 LED matrix, and LED controller module.

ioCubes support Bluetooth and WiFi. Advanced users can customize these modules with interchangeable panels. You can find out more on Kickstarter.

Pill Bug Gripper: Biological Organisms as End Effectors for Robots

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An end effector is a device that attaches to the end of a robotic arm to enable it to handle tasks at hand. Did you know that you can use living organisms as end effectors? Josephine Galipon, Shoya Shimizu, and Kenjiro Tadakuma have written a paper to demonstrate how pill bugs can work as functional grippers without getting harmed. The below video shows how this will work:

ARTEMIS Autonomous Soccer Playing Robot

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Soccer playing robots are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. This video shows ARTEMIS going through outdoor training for RoboCup. As the researchers explain, this can be challenging due to strong sun rays interfering with the vision system, robot overheating from direct sunlight, and instabilities due to wind.

Training ARTEMIS: Autonomous Soccer Playing Humanoid Robot

[Credit: RoMeLa]

Dolphin Premium 60 WiFi Connected Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner

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This is the Dolphin Premium 60: a WiFi connected robotic pool cleaner that you can use to keep your pool water crystal clear. It has multi-layer filtration to take on pools up to 50ft. It has a universal caddy that lets you easily move and store your robot. It has an active brush and scrub your pool’s floor, walls, waterline.

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