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Best Catching Robot
Catching Robot
• Catches balls with accuracy of 80%• This is a pretty high eye/hand coordination– Difficult to teach to even a human child– Better than average uncoordinated human
• Can catch two balls at once• Uses 3d cameras• Has 43 joints. 5 in torso, f in each arm, 12 in
each hand.
A Runway Robot?
First Robot Teacher
Balancing Highly Articulated Robot
Japanese Singing Robot
Amphibious Snake Robot
Flying Robot to Fukushima Reactor
Kinect + iRobot + Gripper Kit
Taurus, bomb defusing robot
iRobot Navy Contract
• iRobot doesn’t only make vacuums and gutter cleaners
• $230 million contract with US Navy– Reconnaissance robots– Bomb disposal robots
• iRobot is also big in cooperating swarms of robots• Builds seaglider and other marine robots to
gather oceanic data• Builders of the Packbot
Biometric Flying Robots
• Robot seagull– Extremely realistic looking flight• Wings move in sections and take advantage of air
currents• Draws some its power from air currents.