Boston Dynamics‘ Stretch is a mobile case handling robot that helps businesses make their warehouse operations more efficient. It has 7 degrees of freedom and advanced computer vision. This video shows how Stretch is being used at DHL.
This is the TPBot: a smart coding car that can follow lines and avoid obstacles. It combines with a micro:bit for programming. This robot supports graphical programming. It can be used to play football and move things around. It is compatible with building bricks.
The XGO 2 is finally here. It is a Raspberry Pi powered robotic dog with an arm, one touch design, and app connectivity. This gorgeous robot has a 6-axis IMU system to maintain its balance on moving surfaces. It comes with omnidirectional motion control and motion gait planning.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of powerful YuMi robots here. They can be programmed to take on various tasks. This videos shows the Dual-arm YuMi unboxed. You will simply have to remove it from the wooden pallet it is screwed onto, plug in the robot and press the brake release to unfold the arms.
So you would like to build your own crawler robot? The Yahboom Tracked Robotic Crawler Chassis has you covered. It has an aluminum alloy frame and can handle off-road conditions. It has holes for attaching Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano boards.
This crawler chassis has 520 DC gear motors. It comes with nylon tracks. You can install cameras, LiDAR, and other sensors. This chassis supports a 3DOF robot arm.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of industrial robots designed to handle food items. FANUC’s DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS Robot is also worth a look: it is a stainless steel food-grade delta robot for picking and packing food products. It is IP69K rated.
This robot has a fully enclosed stainless steel body. It has 6kg payload capacity. It uses 3DV iRVision to locate and pick up items.
Here is a sea cucumber inspired robot that can change shape from liquid to solid state get out of tight spaces. As you can see in this video, this person-shaped robot can escape jail by turning into liquid. This reminds of us of the famous T1000 robot from the Terminator franchise.
For this robot, a phase shifting material was developed by embedding magnetic particles into gallium.
[HT] [credit] [authors: Qingyuan Wang, Chengfeng Pan, Yuanxi Zhang, Lelun Peng, Zhipeng Chen, Carmel Majidi, Lelun Jianh]
Here is an agile robot dog that runs through a sandy beach at 3 meters per second. Developed by Professor Hwangbo Jemin of the KAIST Department of Mechanical Engineering, this quadruped robot can move over deformable terrain. It relies on a neural network that enables it to adapt to different surfaces without prior information.
[Credit: Suyoung Choi, Gwanghyeon Ji, Jeongsoo Park, Hyeongjun Kim, Juhyeok Mun, Jeong Hyun Lee, Jemin Hwangbo, RAI LAB, dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST] [HT]
Meet the Bambu Lab X1-Carbon: one of the smartest 3D printers money can buy. This 16 multi-color printer uses LiDAR and AI to detect the print quality of the first layer automatically. It can also detect spaghetti issues. It has nozzle height detection and extrusion flow calibration.
This is the obode A8+ vacuum: an app connected robot with 4000Pa suction power, 3000Hz LiDAR mapping, and 180m run time that you can control with Alexa. It automatically stores dirt in a 2.5L sealed bag. The A8+ has over 30 sensors to detect the position of moving and stationary objects.
