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00:00 ▶ 1. Festo's BionicSwifts
01:44 ▶ 2. Leonardo : The Skateboarding, Slacklining Robot
02:47 ▶ 3. Facebook Bombyx
05:05 ▶ 4. Blade Bug
06:56 ▶ 5. Forest Ranger Druids
08:24 ▶ 6. Legged Robots
▶1. Upgraded Bionic Bird Mimics Real-World Swallow
Festo's new bionic bird replicates nature and flies like real swallows - using GPS for swarm flight.
A new GPS-guided robot bird called BionicSwifts performs aerial acrobatics using swarm technology without human input, according to a listing on the Festo website.
The BionicSwift robot swallow is nimble, agile, and even performs tricks like loops and tight turns - all autonomously, using a radio-based indoor GPS. But the real trick comes in the swarm action.
👉• www.festo.com/us/en/
▶ 2. LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying.
Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally
nimble and capable of complex movements.
Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion, whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and flying. By combining two distinct locomotion mechanisms, LEONARDO achieves complex maneuvers that require delicate balancing, such as walking on a slackline and skateboarding, which are challenging for existing bipedal robots.
👉• www.caltech.edu/about/news/le...
▶ 3. Facebook Bombyx robot independently lays fiber optic cable through power lines
The Bombyx robot began to be developed by Facebook and ULC Robotics back in 2018, but has not previously found practical use. The company unveiled it in the summer of 2020. According to Schroepfer, Bombyx represents one of the most effective solutions for reducing the cost of installing fiber. The updated model of the robot became lighter and learned to independently overcome obstacles in the form of insulators and other structural elements of support posts in 4 minutes. instead of 17, as was the first version.there is an unusual robot capable of laying fiber optic cables over overhead power lines.
This is much faster and more profitable than manual laying and preparation of power lines, which account for almost 80% of the cost of installing such communication lines.
👉• about. news/2021/10/con...
▶ 4. Robots aren’t going to take over the world, but they can definitely make life a lot easier for humans. And that was the aim of BladeBUG, a UK startup that has developed insect-like robots to inspect, maintain, and repair offshore wind turbine blades without the need for rope access.
BladeBUG’s founder and CEO, Chris Cieslak, has a background in wind turbine blade design. How will the offshore wind industry maintain and repair the giant turbine blades once they’re swooshing through the air, high above the water, without requiring wind turbine workers to dangle precariously above the sea? Not only does the robot make it safer for rope access technicians; it also saves money for the wind turbine companies, as it’s expensive to have humans climb out onto turbine blades.
👉• bladebug.co.uk/
▶ 5. Robot Forest Rangers Plant Trees, Clear Paths and Gather Data
The Forest Ranger Druids are designed by Segev Kaspi to rehabilitate forests after floods and forest fires. The conceptual crew of robotic forest druids will each play a crucial role in forest preservation through seed planting, data analysis, and other essential tasks.
The crew comprises three robots called Rikko, Dixon, and Chunk, designed to support reforestation efforts and sustainable forest management. Tasks are delegated among the crew to facilitate the process for the robots and focus on efficiency. Some divided duties include sawing, pruning, planting, and monitoring and analyzing collected data.
👉• www.segevkaspi.com/forestrang...
▶ 6. Researchers successfully build four-legged swarm robots
Swarm robots
As a robotics engineer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, gets her inspiration from biological systems. The collective behaviors of ants, honeybees and birds to solve problems and overcome obstacles is something researchers have developed in aerial and underwater robotics. Developing small-scale swarm robots with the capability to traverse complex terrain, however, comes with a unique set of challenges.
👉• news.nd.edu/news/researchers-...
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