RESEARCH ROBOTS

Research Robots - Arms

The BionicCobot by Festo is a lightweight, pneumatic cobot with 7-DoF that mimics the human arm, with air enhancing safety and flexibility.

BionicCobot: Mimics Human Arm with Air-Powered Safety

Tasks: Production, Manual Work, Service, Maintenance, & More

Updated: Apr 21, 2024

FESTO

Country: Germany

Year created: 2017

A robot manipulator that is inspired by woodpecker's tongue enables it to be bendable and extendable, and has the right amount of stiffness

Woodpecker Tongue-Inspired Robot

Tasks: Dexterous Manipulation, Grasping, Gripping

Updated: Apr 14, 2024

Kyushu University

Country: Japan

Year created: 2022

The DLR MIRO is a versatile robotic arm for medical applications, which was in 2008 presented to the public for the first time. Optimized for various surgical interventions.

MIRO

Tasks: assist a surgeon, guiding a laser, endoscope guidance, surgery assistance

Updated: Jul 14, 2023

DLR

Country: Germany

Year created: 2008

The reference world-class, force sensitive robot system that empowers researchers with easy-to-use robot features as well as with low-level access to robot´s control and learning.

FRANKA RESEARCH 3

Tasks: AI & Robotics research platform

Updated: Jul 24, 2023

FRANKA EMIKA

Country: Germany

From repair work to scientific experiments, Inchworm Robot by GITAI enhances space missions with its unique modular & cost-effective design

Inchworm Robot: Modular & Cost-Effective for Space Missions

Tasks: Maintenance, repair, & scientific experiment in space stations & satellites

Updated: Apr 28, 2024

GITAI

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2016

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Research Robots - Flying & Space

Ultralight design of artificial insects with coordinated, collective flight behavior.

eMotionButterflies

Tasks: Coordination and collision-avoidance in a 3D, transport, inspection, ...

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

FESTO

Country: Germany

New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.

MIT's resilient bug-sized robot

Tasks: flying after wing damage,

Updated: Jul 11, 2023

MIT

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2023

A robot capable of negotiating unstructured, multi-substrate environments, including land and air, by employing its components in different ways as wheels, thrusters, and legs.

Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4)

Tasks: navigating unstructured environments, search and rescue, aerial surveying

Updated: Jul 08, 2023

Caltech, JPL, Northea…

Country: United States of America

The BionicSwifts are agile, maneuverable, and can even fly loops and steep turns. Moving autonomously in a coordinated pattern by interacting with a radio-based indoor GPS system.

BionicSwift

Tasks: Safe Aerial Acrobatics in a Flock, transport materials, inspection, ....

Updated: Aug 01, 2023

FESTO

Country: Germany

Year created: 2021

NASA's Dragonfly mission: An ambitious venture using a high-tech, rotorcraft lander designed to study Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Dragonfly: NASA's Autonomous Rotorcraft to Explore Titan

Tasks: Explore chemistry and habitability of Titan (Saturn's largest moon)

Updated: Apr 25, 2024

NASA

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2019

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Research Robots - Underwater & Aquatic

From scientific research to surveys—discover how BlueBoat by BlueRobotics is changing the game in marine robotics through its affordable, high-tech, and compact design.

BlueBoat: Navigating the Waters with Ease and Affordability

Tasks: Hydrographic Surveys, Robotics System Development, Scientific Research

Updated: May 14, 2024

Blue Robotics

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2023

Underwater drone with tilting camera for professional inspections of your assets. The ultimate tool for professionals. Quick & user-friendly inspection of your assets below surface

blueye PRO

Tasks: exploration, inspection, underwater manipulation, other

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

Blueye

Country: Norway

Groundbreaking technology to get your eyes below the surface. The Blueye Pioneer underwater drone offers exceptional user experience and performance.

blueye PIONEER

Tasks: exploration, inspection, underwater manipulation, other

Updated: Jul 25, 2023

Blueye

Country: Norway

Design, fabrication, control, and oceanic testing of a soft robotic fish that can swim in three dimensions to continuously record the aquatic life it is following or engaging.

SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish

Tasks: Exploration of underwater life

Updated: Aug 07, 2023

MIT CSAIL

Country: United States of America

Autonomous underwater construction system with active ballasting, capable of building structures with cement blocks.

First Free-Floating Autonomous Underwater Construction Robot

Tasks: Cement block transport, Autonomous underwater construction, Active ballast

Updated: Apr 24, 2024

Dartmouth College

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2022

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Research Robots - Climbing

A novel magnetic wheeled robot capable of traveling over curved steel walls through shape-adaptive magnetic adhesion mechanism.

Wheeled Wall-Climbing Robot

Tasks: Climbing curved steel walls

Updated: Aug 07, 2023

Sumitomo

Country: Japan

Year created: 2018

The gecko-inspired Slalom robot uses a bendable body design for energy-efficient climbing, advancing sprawling posture robot development.

Slalom: A Gecko-Inspired Robot with Lateral Body Undulation

Tasks: Inclined Surface Climbing and Inspection, Search and Rescue, Exploration

Updated: Apr 18, 2024

Nanjing University of…

Country: China

Represents the next generation of maintenance and inspection robots that can minimise risk and increase safety in the industrial workforce, particularly around confined space entry

Magneto

Tasks: maintenance, inspection, confined space entry, complex structures

Updated: Jul 30, 2023

CSIRO Data61

Country: Australia

Year created: 2018

A Novel Capabilities of Quadruped Robot Moving through Vertical Ladder Without Handrail Support

Quadruped Ladder Climbing

Tasks: Vertical Ladder Climbing, horizontal-vertical-horizontal transition

Updated: Oct 20, 2023

TMU

Country: Japan

A versatile climbing robot with a hybrid actuation system combining propeller thrust & wheel torque for stable adhesion on diverse surfaces.

EJBot-II: Skid-Steering Propeller-Type Climbing Robot

Tasks: Visual Inspection, Wall Thickness Measurement

Updated: Mar 05, 2024

Egypt-Japan Universit…

Country: Egypt

Year created: 2016

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Research Robots - Humanoids

The anthropomorphic robot David (formerly DLR Hand Arm System) has joints with Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSA) that have mechanically adjustable flexibility in the drive train.

David - anthropomorphic robot

Tasks: human-like tasks, pick-and-place, manipulation

Updated: Jul 14, 2023

DLR

Country: Germany

Year created: 2010

The humanoid walking robot TORO (TOrque-controlled humanoid RObot) is a research platform for scientific topics dealing with bipedal movement and dynamics.

TORO

Tasks: robust walking, climbing stairs and multi-contact scenarios

Updated: Jul 14, 2023

DLR

Country: Germany

Year created: 2013

Reachy is an expressive open-source humanoid platform programmable with Python and ROS. He is particularly good at interacting with people and manipulating objects.

Reachy - Full Kit

Tasks: Human interaction, Manipulating Objects

Updated: Jul 24, 2023

Pollen Robotics

Country: France

iCub is a research-grade humanoid robot designed to help developing and testing embodied AI algorithms. iCub is the ideal companion to your robotics laboratory.

iCub

Tasks: developing and testing embodied AI algorithms

Updated: Jul 25, 2023

Istituto Italiano…

Country: Italy

Year created: 2004

Poppy is aesthetic, modular, and parametric. From a single arm to the complete humanoid, this platform is actively used in labs, engineering schools, FabLabs, and artistic projects

Poppy humanoid

Tasks: An open source platform, Art, Education, Scientists, Hackers

Updated: Jul 24, 2023

Poppy

Country: France

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Research Robots - Wheeled / Tracked

Ridgeback is a midsize indoor robot platform that uses an omni-drive to move manipulators and heavy payloads with ease.

RIDGEBACK

Tasks: Indoor navigation

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

CLEARPATH ROBOTICS\

Country: United States of America

Dingo is a light-weight, compact indoor mobile robot designed for robotics research and education. Two drive systems (differential & omnidirectional) and expandable power/computing

DINGO

Tasks: Indoor - autonomous navigation, mobile manipulation and mapping

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

CLEARPATH ROBOTICS

Country: United States of America

Drive-by-wire platform with open CAN interface for engineering development and rapid prototyping of smart vehicles.

PIXLOOP - Hooke

Tasks: autonomous driving, smart vehicles

Updated: Jul 10, 2023

PIX

Country: United States of America

The mobile manipulator robot that fits and adapts to your research, not the other way around. Suitable for fields such as Ambient-Assisted Living, Healthcare or Light industry.

TIAGo

Tasks: research, perception, navigation, manipulation & Human-Robot Interaction

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

PAL Robotics

Country: Spain

Husky is a medium sized robotic development platform. Its large payload capacity and power systems accommodate an extensive variety of payloads, customized to meet research needs.

HUSKY

Tasks: traverse challenging real-world terrain

Updated: Jul 12, 2023

CLEARPATH ROBOTICS

Country: United States of America

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Research Robots - Legged

The four-legged robotic system Bert is a platform for researching biological locomotion. The purpose is to understand locomotor patterns and transfer them from nature to robotics.

Bert

Tasks: understand locomotor patterns

Updated: Jul 14, 2023

DLR

Country: Germany

The Lite 3 bionic robot is an advanced robot dog that features a higher driving force, a far more advanced and accurate algorithm, enhanced environment interaction, and more ...

Lite3 - Basic - DEEPRobotics

Tasks: Research, Education, Develop locomotion training

Updated: Dec 27, 2023

DEEPRobotics

Country: China

Year created: 2023

Serval is a lightweight, low-cost, and compliant quadruped robot with actuated spine and high range of motion in all joints.

Serval Lightweight Quadruped Robot

Tasks: Study of mechatronic complexity to achieve rich motion skills

Updated: Mar 08, 2024

Biorobotics Labor…

Country: Switzerland

Oncilla Robot: A Versatile Open-Source Quadruped Research Robot With Compliant Pantograph Legs

Oncilla

Tasks: model-free locomotion control, rough terrain, agile & versatile locomotion

Updated: Mar 07, 2024

EPFL / University…

Country: Switzerland

A prototype bipedal robot research platform for exploring advanced control methods for legged locomotion. The robot is lightweight with low moving inertia in the legs.

Kangaroo

Tasks: research platform, highly dynamic motions

Updated: Jul 25, 2023

PAL Robotics

Country: Spain

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Research Robots - Exoskeletons

The exoskeleton KIT-EXO-1 was introduced in 2013 with the aim to augment human capabilities or to use it in rehabilitation applications. Two DoFs at the knee and ankle; passive DoF

KIT-EXO-1

Tasks: rehabilitation, augment human capabilities

Updated: Jul 26, 2023

KIT

Country: Germany

A wearable rehabilitation device that would allow patients suffering from hemiparesis to perform repetitive motion therapy in their homes.

Wearable Exo-musculature Soft Robots

Tasks: restoring lost motor skills

Updated: Jul 22, 2023

WPI AIM

Country: United States of America

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Research Robots - Soft

A soft robotic snake made of modules that can actively deform in 3D with 3D-printed wave spring sheath to support the modules, increasing its performance in climbing steps 3-fold.

3D Soft Robotic Snake

Tasks: movement in narrow pas- sages and other difficult terrain

Updated: Jul 22, 2023

WPI Soft Robotics…

Country: United States of America

Year created: 2022

A Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature

SCoReS:Soft continuum robot Arm with variable curvature

Tasks: Object Manipulation; Navigating, and Grasping in constrainted environment.

Updated: Mar 01, 2024

Imperial College …

Country: United Kingdom

Year created: 2023

Whether free and flexible movements or defined sequences – thanks to its modular design, a lightweight pneumatic robot can be used for numerous applications.

BionicSoftArm

Tasks: pick and place; manipulate a wide variety of objects and shapes

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

FESTO

Country: Germany

Whether free and flexible movements or defined sequences, thanks to its modular design, the pneumatic lightweight robot can be used for numerous applications.

BionicSoftArm

Tasks: pick-and-place, handle a wide variety of objects and shapes

Updated: Jul 07, 2023

FESTO

Country: Germany

A pneumatic robot hand equipped with artificial intelligence that can learn to perform a variety of tasks and uses reinforcement learning to optimize its actions.

BionicSoftHand

Tasks: gripping, holding, turning, pressing

Updated: Aug 05, 2023

FESTO

Country: Germany

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Research Robots - Small / Personal

Groundbreaking social robot utilizing the latest advancements in technology. Furhat’s expressibility and customizability enables unlimited opportunities for research & developments

Furhat

Tasks: social robot

Updated: Jul 22, 2023

Furhat Robotics

Country: Sweden

Year created: 2011

TurtleBot 4 is the next-generation of the world’s most popular open source robotics platform for education and research, offering better computing power, and better sensors.

TurtleBot 4 Lite

Tasks: robotics platform for education and research

Updated: Jul 12, 2023

CLEARPATH ROBOTICS

Country: United States of America

TurtleBot 4 is the next-generation of the world’s most popular open source robotics platform for education and research, offering better computing power, and better sensors.

TurtleBot 4 Standard

Tasks: robotics platform for education and research

Updated: Jul 12, 2023

CLEARPATH ROBOTICS

Country: United States of America

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Research Robots - Other

Groundbreaking social robot utilizing the latest advancements in technology. Furhat’s expressibility and customizability enables unlimited opportunities for research & developments

Furhat

Tasks: social robot

Updated: Jul 23, 2023

Furhat Robotics

Country: Sweden

Year created: 2011

Salamandra Robotica II is an amphibious robot with four legs designed to walk and swim, mimicking the locomotion of real salamanders.

Salamandra Robotica II

Tasks: Study salamander locomotion

Updated: Mar 08, 2024

Biorobotics Labor…

Country: Switzerland

Cube-shaped robot that can balance on its pivot with only a single reaction wheel and compensate for external disturbances

The One-Wheel Cubli

Tasks: balance

Updated: Jul 11, 2023

ETH

Country: Switzerland

Year created: 2023

A kiwifruit harvesting robot designed to operate autonomously in pergola style orchards. Robot uses machine vision, CNNs, and robotic arms.

Robotic Kiwifruit Harvesting

Tasks: Kiwifruit Harvesting

Updated: Mar 04, 2024

University of Auckland

Country: New Zealand

This robotic system will help children socialize and assist in applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy.

PABI © - Penguin for Autism Behavioral Interventions

Tasks: Improving behavioral and social outcomes for children with autism

Updated: Jul 22, 2023

WPI AIM

Country: United States of America

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