the newest robots inventions and
technologies of the future
and which is worth keeping an eye on in
2021
get ready for the most interesting
things from the world of high tech in
today's one issue
the first discoveries of this year are
samsung's home robots
the smart index terrace bought handy can
determine what material an object is
made of in order to calculate the force
required to maneuver it
the robot can pick up laundry load the
dishwasher set your table
pour wine and even bring your drinks
cameras on the robot's head and limbs
are responsible for object recognition
for maneuvering and manipulation only
the robotic arm which can rotate at
three points
specifically in the shoulder elbow and
wrist
the arm ends with a universal grip that
works with objects of different sizes
and shapes the robot can move around the
room on a platform
turn from side to side and rise to reach
higher objects
and for everyday cleaning samsung
introduced the jetbot 90 ai plus robot
it's a vacuum cleaner that uses lidar
and 3d sensors to clean close to
furniture and children's
toys the jetbot's internal camera can be
used to monitor pets as well
a recent reality has been a mole
robotics futuristic robot kitchen
project
not as futuristic as the concept the
robotic kitchen is
already quite functional the system is
sold together with furniture and
utensils as everything is adapted for
optimal robotics work
based on proven industrial manipulators
the specially designed gripper can not
only use spatulas and ladles but also
for example
crack eggs use a blender or turn on the
water
the robot takes ingredients from human
prepared containers
but beyond that the entire cooking
process is fully automated
the robot was trained with the help of a
camera recording the cooking process
and its verbal description breaking down
the recipe into simple steps such as
stir
flip salt makes it fairly easy to teach
the robot new dishes
the toyota research institute showed its
version of home robots not so long ago
the company's engineers are trying to
solve two problems
teaching robots to perform everyday
tasks around the house
and to overcome the limitations imposed
by the unpredictable environment of each
individual home
the latter task is partly solved by
toyota's new robot hanging from the
ceiling
but it's also unlikely to be implemented
in the existing modest size japanese
dwellings
rather these are developments for future
homes and apartments
toyota is not saying much about the
technology behind this robot
but it recently showed off its new lap
which was created to test this very
robot
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the chinese institute of industrial
technology introduced this year the dual
arm robot system
a robotic system with two arms the total
number of joints at 29
this dexterius robot with five fingers
and seven degrees of freedom can easily
manipulate objects of different shapes
and sizes
and they're made of composite material
which makes the robot lightweight
yet durable this year agility robotics
has seriously upgraded its humanoid
robot career digit
making it completely self-sufficient all
you need to do now is tell the robot the
route or the end point and it will go
where it needs to go
bypassing obstacles along the way digit
is the world's first commercially
available humanoid robot with two legs
currently the price is unknown but it's
rumored to have six figures
the robot can lift weights up to 18
kilograms gently by bypassing people and
interacting with other robots
digit's main customer today is ford the
company plans to use the robot for
deliveries in conjunction with its
unmanned car
the robot uses lidar and multiple
cameras mounted on its torso to scan its
surroundings and quickly detect
obstacles
now from humanoid robots let's move on
to our four-legged friend robots
a new and rather unusual robot dog was
introduced this year by 10
cent the robot dog max uses the original
leg and wheel connection scheme from 10
cent robotics x-lab which allows him to
both walk
on four legs and ride on wheels at 25
kilometers per hour
tencent software and hardware platform
allows the robot to reach its
surroundings and control its own balance
as well as plan actions with calculation
delays of only 0.3 milliseconds
this robot can also stand up after
falling down
another novelty found was chinese copy
of the boston dynamics robot dog
the way lane company introduced alpha
dog robot which is able to move at
speeds of up to 1 kilometers per hour
move with 10 different gates and carry a
load of up to 5 kilograms
the robot is also able to move
autonomously avoiding obstacles
maintaining balance and getting up after
a fall and
according to the manufacturer perform a
number of other tasks using artificial
intelligence
for example serving as a guide for the
blind guarding homes or patrolling a
park
it's already sold two thousand units at
a price of just
under two thousand five hundred dollars
boston dynamics itself this year also
introduced a couple of new products
specifically a brand new robot for
warehouses named stretch
and an updated version of the robot spot
with an incredibly nimble and smart
robotic arm
we talked more about them in an issue
about the company's robots
which you can find the link in the video
description
an unusual four-legged novelty of the
year was hyundai's tiger
x1 robotic courier for hard to reach and
remote locations
the robot is dropped off in the night
area by drone and then rides on wheels
and rises on its feet to step over
obstacles if necessary
the top of the robot can easily be
replaced with a refrigerator
or regular box the robot has only a
prototype
so far but it seems that hyundai is
serious about this technology
development and plans to bring to the
market
a commercial version
we couldn't cover this without
mentioning this year's protagonist the
martian drone ingenuity
although it's not exactly a robot the
vehicle opened a new milestone in the
history of exploration of other planets
and it's definitely worth mentioning
the mars drone has already made four
autonomous flights in the thin
atmosphere of the red planet which is
only one percent of earth's atmosphere
it's not equipped with any scientific
instruments except a laser altimeter
a gyro stabilizer and video cameras one
camera is responsible for navigation
i.e determining location directions and
speed
the second camera is a 13 megapixel
color camera and it takes pictures on
the surface of mars
helicopter communication with earth is
carried out through the rover the
massive ingenuity on earth is 1.8
kilograms
and on mars about 0.7 kilograms
the helicopter is lifted by air by two
propellers each 1.2 meters long and
weighing only 35 grams
they are made of carbon fiber and
covered with solar panels for recharging
the drone
a pair of parallel mounted propellers
rotates in opposite directions around
the common axis at about 23 to 2 900
revolutions per minute
by comparison terrestrial helicopters
make about 500 revolutions per minute
earth-based robotics have made their
mark this year as well
carbon robotics unveiled a robot for
destroying weeds with a laser
this autonomous robot uses computer
vision a powerful lighting system that
allows the robot to accurately identify
weeds at any time of day as well as 8 15
watt carbon dioxide lasers
the robot weeds 6.5 hectares a day
australia is testing an apple picking
robot the robot uses a combination of
cameras and deep learning algorithms to
scan trees and detect fruit
which requires it to process information
about the shape orientation
and the branch location the robot can
grip the apple with a specially designed
pneumatic operated soft grip that does
not injure the fruit
the gripper can retrieve more than 85
percent of all apples on a tree and the
robot itself can identify more than 90
percent of the apples in its camera
field of view at a distance of just over
one meter the machine can operate in all
light and weather conditions and at
speeds of
seven seconds per apple construction
robots also made their mark this year
there were no such spectacular ones as
the hrp-5p
but the bow bot from australian startup
printstones also looks good
it's an electrically driven robot that
reaches its destination on cross-country
tracks at speeds of just over three
kilometers per hour
it can overcome stairs and thresholds
carry loads of up to 500 kilograms and
work for eight hours without any
recharging
balbot can be controlled from the
display on the robot and from a
smartphone
as well as by setting points on a
pre-made map the robot is equipped with
cameras its own lighting and a robotic
arm with a range of up to one meter and
an accuracy tolerance of less than one
millimeter
the robot arm is designed to handle a
variety of tools and can both wrap a
screw or weld metal and lay bricks
in the future after thousands of hours
of training and simulation
the robot will be able to work not only
with humans but also with other robots
and this would let the human only
supervise the construction
another major discovery in robotics this
year was the microscopic robots capable
of becoming medical instruments
the robots created at cornell university
are about 5 microns thick and only 40
microns wide
equipped with feet the size of a few
tens of atoms they can move with laser
pulses and interact directly with human
body cells
the robots are resistant to a variety of
environments including extreme acidity
and temperatures
but most importantly it's fast and easy
to produce them
in theory they can both heal wounds from
polymer shells around tumors
preventing them from growing
it's impossible to cover all the
inventions and technologies of the
future that are already being developed
in today's one issue
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