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Plants need regular and the appropriate amount of watering to thrive and survive. While agricultural robots exist that can spray water on plants and crops such as the , they are expensive and have limited mobility and/or functionality. We introduce a novel autonomous mobile plant watering robot that uses a 6 degree of freedom (DOF) manipulator, connected to a 4 wheel drive alloy chassis, to be able to hold a garden hose, recognize and detect plants, and to water them with the appropriate amount of water by being able to insert a soil humidity/moisture sensor into the soil. The robot uses Jetson Nano and Arduino microcontroller and real sense camera to perform computer vision to detect plants using real-time YOLOv5 with the Pl@ntNet-300K dataset. The robot uses LIDAR for object and collision avoideance and does not need to move on a pre-defined path and can keep track of which plants it has watered. We provide the Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) Table, forward kinematics, differential driving kinematics, and inverse kinematics along with simulation and experiment results

Inspired by the dexterous handling ability of an elephant's trunk, we propose a pneumatic actuator that generates diverse bending and extension motions in a flexible arm. The actuator consists of two flexible tubes. Each flexible tube is restrained by a single string with variable length and tilt angle. Even if a single tube can perform only three simple types of motions (bending, extension, and helical), a variety of complex bending patterns can be created by arranging a pair of tubes in parallel and making the restraint variable. This performance takes advantage of the effect of the superposition of forces by arranging two tubes to constructively interfere with each other. This paper described six resulting pose patterns. First, the configuration and operating principle are described, and the fabrication method is explained. Next, two mathematical models and four finite element method-based analyses are introduced to predict the tip position changes in five motion patterns. All the models were validated through experiments. Finally, we experimentally demonstrated that the prototype SEMI-TRUNK can realize the action of grabbing a bottle and pouring water, verifying the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Ever wake up so bleary-eyed and unable to function that you can barely get it together to stumble your way into the kitchen and mix a cocktail? Well, have we got a product for you. The Black & Decker Bev does for mixed drinks what Keurig did for coffee, complete with all the pros and cons that the comparison implies. The $250 Black & Decker Bev "corded cocktail maker" is quite the monstrosity on the countertop, weighing 16 pounds unloaded and measuring 15 inches tall with a footprint of 16 by 18 inches. Six tubes extend downward into liquor bottles that you provide--vodka, gin, whiskey (your choice), rum, and tequila.

AI is everywhere right now. It's been slowly growing in popularity and importance, but recently it's burst into the mainstream with a number of high profile (and very cool) projections and applications. One of the most talked about has been the AI image generation technology such as Dall-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. These programs use text prompts to create incredible pictures of scenes and characters which are only limited by the imagination. One guy from Colorado even won a prize for digital art at the State Fair, with an artwork that he created using Midjourney.

Developed by robotics researchers at the University of Michigan, it could cut learning time for new materials and environments down to a few hours rather than a week or two. In simulations, the expanded training data set improved the success rate of a robot looping a rope around an engine block by more than 40% and nearly doubled the successes of a physical robot for a similar task. That task is among those a robot mechanic would need to be able to do with ease. But using today's methods, learning how to manipulate each unfamiliar hose or belt would require huge amounts of data, likely gathered for days or weeks, says Dmitry Berenson, U-M associate professor of robotics and senior author of a paper presented today at Robotics: Science and Systems in New York City. In that time, the robot would play around with the hose -- stretching it, bringing the ends together, looping it around obstacles and so on -- until it understood all the ways the hose could move.

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Before Insurance Australia Group (IAG) can begin selling more than insurance products to consumers, the company realised it needed to shift what is currently a very analogue business into something that is more digitally orientated. "We really want to change the mindset, get some records and customer value, and build new businesses as well, including beyond insurance," IAG Digital Architecture director Ian Jamieson explained at New Relic Future Stack 2019 last week. "An insurance company not selling insurance is quite disruptive because a lot of the core systems is under insurance, so if we want to sell a solution that provides emergency assistance to your home that is not an insurance product, how would you bill someone for that so that it's not under insurance … there are a range of things we need to transform and add new capabilities to." Jamieson said some areas that IAG is looking to expand its business into include motor and home repair services, spinning up brand new businesses such as in mobility services, and through acquisitions of startups, such as its most recent purchase of Carbar, a subscription-based car ownership platform. To make sure these business plans become a reality, Jamieson said the company has moved away from taking traditional waterfall approaches to projects and using a cross-functional method.

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a fire-fighting robot. "Fires have an unfortunate habit of happening in places that aren't necessarily easy to reach," putting firefighters in lethal danger, said Evan Ackerman at IEEE Spectrum. That's led Japanese researchers to design a "snake-like robot" with the body of a fire hose. "Like other snake robots, this one has the potential to be able to wiggle its way into windows or other gaps in a structure, with the benefit of carrying and directing water as it goes."

Japanese researchers have developed an astonishing robot with a snake-like body that is capable of fighting fires. The'dragon robot' is capable of wriggling into hard-to-reach gaps between structures and windows several floors up. It therefore can extinguish blazes traditional firefighters might not be able to reach. Researchers from Tohoku University and National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College presented the robot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation last month in Brisbane, Australia. The machine, called the DragonFireFighter, has the ability to lift itself off the ground and fly using high pressure jets of water.