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Asteroids might soon be explored by space robots ✨ SpaceHopper is a legged robot developed for microgravity environments by students from ETH Zürich to explore the surface of asteroids. The robot has three legs with three degrees of freedom each for jumping in low gravity.…

This hybrid robot takes to the air to avoid obstacles 💡 Developed by the New Dexterity Group at The University of Auckland, the Omnirotor robot is designed to travel on the ground to use less power, and then transition into the air autonomously to get over obstacles. With an…

Autonomous heavy machinery could make construction more environmentally friendly 🌿 Researchers from ETH Zürich's Robotics Systems Lab have developed a robotic system designed for building stone walls and shaping landscapes in remote areas. This robot excavator can pick up and…

This drone has wings like a bird 🦅 Researchers from The University of Auckland have developed a 'bird' inspired tailsitter drone, which is tendon-driven, and complete with shape-morphing wings that have aerofoil-shaped artificial feathers. The drone takes off like a normal…

This 3D printed robot can change height, jump, and put out fires 🔥 Developed by students at McMaster University, the low cost two-wheeled robot was built for modular payload configurations and can move across varied terrain including grass, snow, and sand. Aside from putting…

With AI this robot learned to scale pallets over a meter high 💡 Developed by Unitree Robotics, the B2 Quadruped can scale objects over 1.2m high, run faster than 6 m/s, and operate for more than four hours on a single charge. The mobile robot is being used for inspection tasks…

This drone find power line faults with AI, then perches on the line to recharge ⚡ Energy utilities have been long been relying on drones for infrastructure inspection. However, typical drone systems require human control and review of the captured data. This process comes with…

Meet the world's most powerful jet-powered drone ✈ Developed by FusionFlight, The AB6 JetQuad is a compact jet-engine drone the size of a large suitcase, producing a maximum of 840N from four micro jet-engines. The JetQuad works on any type of heavy-fuel (Diesel, Kerosene,…

This drone delivers a robotic crawler to inspect industrial pipes 💡 Built by NEABOTICS, this modular drone-crawler system is capable of fully remote inspection of non-ferromagnetic steel pipes, in any orientation and curvature, allowing the ground operator to fully evaluate the…

This humanoid learned to backflip with deep reinforcement learning 💡 Unitree Robotics' H1 is the worlds first full-sized electric motor drive humanoid to backflip on the ground. The team at Unitree achieved this using deep reinforcement learning, a type of Artificial…

This is a one degree of freedom robot that balances on its corner 💡 The One-Wheel Cubli, is a three-dimensional pendulum system, that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel. How is it possible to keep stable? The key is to design the system where inertia in one…

Is this what the future of last-mile delivery in the city looks like? 📦 Applying their embodied AI, the team from Swiss-Mile are teaching robots how to move and interact with things more easily, while cutting down on the need for a lot of specific programming for each task.…

Will aerial robots eventually replace humans for construction at heights? 🏗 Researchers from the Technische Universität Dresden are developing an aerial robot to automate screwing tasks on construction sites through a robust hole search and in-hole detection algorithm. The…

Robots are revolutionizing painting at heights 🏢 This painting robot is up to 4x faster than human painters, with painting being carried out in bands, going up and down, just like a printer. The robot is suspended using steel cables attached to anchors positioned at the top of…

Meet the robot keeping farmers out of grain bins to save lives 💡 Grain bins are dirty, dangerous workplaces. The Grain Weevil is a grain bin safety and management robot that keeps farmers of the bin by leveling, breaking crusts, doing inspections and feeding grain into the…

Are drone swarms the new frontier in precision farming? 🌾 Spray drones have become common place on farms around the globe. Drones can deliver the precise application of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to specific areas, giving farms a superior way to reduce wastage and…

Would you let a robot park your car? 🚘 Autonomous Mobile Robot's (AMR) are being used to revolutionize car parking. The robots can intelligently perceive there surroundings to navigate obstacles and open spaces to move cars without human intervention. The parking AMRs measure…

To combat labor shortages, contractors are hiring robots for drywalling 🏗 With 90% of contractors struggling to find skilled labor, some are turning to companies like Canvas to solve this problem. Canvas combines robotics, AI, Machine learning, and LiDAR technology to provide…

Meet the drone that changes shape mid-air, and will roll on the ground to save energy 💡 Aerial robots that perform physical tasks in the air consume a lot of energy. To extend run time, researchers from JSK Robotics Lab at The University of Tokyo, are developing a drone that…

This AI robot hand can pick up all sorts of objects, turn them around to use them, just like how you might flip a screwdriver to use the other end 💡 Up until now, making a robot do this, especially with objects that have weird shapes or in places that are messy and…