Tesla’s Optimus may be years away, but Toyota Research Institute’s Punyo soft robot is here now and ready to help around the house. Thanks to its soft arms made from air-filled bladders, it’s not afraid to make a lot of contact, utilizing its whole body to carry and manipulate more than it could by grasping with only outstretched hands.
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Let’s face it, deserts are typically hot, dry and hard to cultivate. Meet the A’seedbot. This mini autonomous robot comes equipped with solar panels and designed to scour terrain at night, identifying fertile areas and plant seeds based on the data retrieved from its sensors.
Hanyang Robotics knows that clearing snow can be quite the task, especially in arduous weather, and that’s why they built the Snowbot S1. this fully autonomous snowblower is capable of clearing a path in up to 12-inches of snow.
Called Hadrian X, this massive brick-laying system consists of a 98-foot robotic arm mounted on a truck that is guided by motion sensors. How does it know where to lay the bricks? It comes loaded with a digital blueprint, and can auto-correct its position 1,000 times a second.
