Top 10 robots seen at CES 2024 – The Robot Report

LAS VEGAS — CES 2024 featured a gigantic different of rising technologies, from health devices and videogames to self sustaining autos. However robots continuously non-public a foremost presence within the sprawling show halls.

The Robot Document visited varied booths within the Eureka Park portion of CES, moreover to within the opposite centered sections of the occasion. Here are some highlights from this week’s occasion:

Mobinn climbs stairway in direction of success

Mobinn is a Korean startup centered on closing-mile self sustaining transport autos. Whereas the way of closing-mile transport isn’t unique, Mobinn demonstrated an revolutionary wheeled robotic that could climb stairs.

The robotic is able to going up and down stairs thru the implementation of compliant wheels. A self-leveling field on high of the robotic keeps the cargo level, so your drinks and food don’t spill out of their containers.

Glidance guides folks with imaginative and prescient impairments

RoboBusiness PitchFire 2023 winner Glidance also won a CES 2024 Innovation Award and confirmed the most fresh functional prototype of its Wing instrument in its booth. The robotic Wing guides see-impaired folks equivalent to a book canine.

The startup is designing Wing to be inexpensive and uncomplicated to learn the way to exercise when it begins transport later this twelve months. I attempted Wing firsthand (while closing my eyes). The expertise became once amazing, and I’m able to most effective imagine how promising this expertise would be for an particular particular person with see loss.

The crew at Glidance mentioned to me that indispensable particular person Stevie Surprise came to the Glidance booth for a demo of the product all the way thru CES.

Unitree H1 humanoid steals the repeat

There had been two fleshy-dimension humanoid robots at CES 2024.

Kepler Robotics had a stationary mannequin of the unique Kepler Forerunner K1 in its Eureka Park booth. The robotic entails 14 linear-axis motors and 14 rotary-axis motors. Unfortunately, the company became once unable to present are dwelling demos of the Forerunner.

The internet influencer darling of CES must be the Unitree H1 humanoid, and the company became once giving nearly about continuous are dwelling demos of the H1 at its booth.

Kudos to the Unitree marketing crew for its now-outrageous “kick the robotic” movies which had been shared on social media over the previous six months. In the films, H1 looks to be a solid humanoid platform with expert stability and agility.

Alternatively, as a longtime robotics industry insider and skilled robotics applications engineer, I concept the Unitree H1 product demos at CES 2024 had been cringe-mighty, as the Unitree demo crew walked the H1 robotic into crowds of “internet tech influencers” with their cameras ablaze.

The 150 lb. (68 kg) robotic danced with the public inches away. A single tripping incident would non-public sent the robotic tumbling into an harmless bystander and made immediate headlines. It would had been a public relatives catastrophe and a setback for the industry.

Alternatively, there’s no denying that the H1 became once a crowd authorized at CES 2024, and the company and its robotic obtained quite quite rather a lot of recordsdata media attention.

Hyundai shows future mobility tech at CES 2024

Hyundai purchased my vote as one of the industry-leading mobility and robotics leaders at CES 2024. It is the parent company of Boston Dynamics, but at CES 2024, the Jam and Stretch robots performed minor roles in Hyundai’s myth.

The corporate had multiple wide-scale booths showing autonomy ideas for the future, in conjunction with self sustaining mobility for each humans and freight, moreover to a stare upon the manner forward for self sustaining constructing autos. Unfortunately, I didn’t procure to scrutinize either of the are dwelling mobility demonstrations, however the Hyundai Construction Xite way tractor became once a audacious incarnation of self sustaining constructing designs.

AV24 rolls into the showroom

The Indy Self reliant Quandary (IAC) had a audacious booth within the automobile corridor of CES 2024, surrounded by nicely-identified tag names. On repeat became once a truly functional version of the newest AV24 self sustaining racecar, showing off the mix of an exclusively unique autonomy stack within the automobile.

The IAC has partnered with quite rather a lot of the leading automobile expertise firms to embed the most fresh lidar, radar, imaginative and prescient, and GPS sensors all the way thru the automobile.

dSpace announced an extended partnership with IAC that will voice digital twins of each college crew’s automobile alongside with digital twins of each of the run tracks. In turn, these will enable the groups to put together the AI drivers fully in simulation and then port the AI models and pressure code straight away the physical run autos.

Besides, some sanctioned sim races are capability later this twelve months, mentioned the IAC organizers.

Embodied AI shows up to this point Moxie

The latest generation of Moxie by Embodied AI became once on repeat in Amazon’s booth at CES. Embodied only within the near previous announced unique tutoring functionality with the most fresh instrument commence for Moxie, and it demonstrated the instrument at the expo.

Amazon had a separate expo suite that featured all the physical Amazon client and orderly home products (Amazon Astro became once noticeably absent from the repeat). Moxie entertained the gathered crowds as it demonstrated its interactivity.

Fingervision measures gripper force

My “Unknown Discovery” award of CES 2024 goes to a young Eastern startup called Fingervision. This became once a serendipitous discovery of an innovation that makes exercise of little cameras constructed into the gripper fingers of an industrial robotic,

They present feedback on the grip force and “slippage” of an merchandise held with the gripper. Here’s done by imaging the dwelling the place the fingers touch an object thru an opaque ground. Thus the starting place of the company title.

The corporate has deployed its first grippers into an application the place robots are deciding on up fried chicken nuggets and packaging them.

Honorable mentions from CES 2024

Gatik keeps on trucking — autonomously

Gatik confirmed the third generation of its on-avenue self sustaining truck. The corporate has made its designate on self sustaining logistics thru the deployment of driving algorithms that plans paths in say that the automobile most effective makes correct-hand turns, warding off extra advanced and unsafe left-hand turns.

Gatik first demonstrated exclusively driverless, freight-most effective business deliveries on the middle mile with Walmart in 2021. Quickly after, it completed the major exclusively driverless deployment for Canada’s ultimate retailer, Loblaw.

The company also announced a partnership with Goodyear tires to salvage “Tremendous Tires” that could present true-time feedback to the self sustaining driver with knowledge about the condition of the tires to support support traction and support watch over.

Bobcat Rogue X2 gets ready to crawl the earth

At CES 2024, Bobcat confirmed off an self sustaining way prototype, the Bobcat Rogue X2, at CES 2024. The all-electrical, self sustaining robotic is designed for going thru self-discipline cloth scamper and ground-altering operations at constructing, mining, and agriculture internet sites.

The assemble prototype of the Rogue X2 at CES had wheels in jam of tracks, but manually driven Bobcats will doubtless be outfitted with tracks, so a producing version of the Rogue can non-public identical configurations.

Ottonomy IO companions with Harbor Lockers

By way of a brand unique partnership with Harbor Lockers, the most fresh generation of Ottobot can now be configured with a payload of Harbor Lockers. This entails the Harbor Locker physical locker infrastructure, moreover to the Harbor Locker application interface.

Here’s the major time that Ottonomy is partnering with a third-birthday party dealer to elongate the self sustaining closing-mile transport acknowledge.

Garden-mowing robots arrive in North America

CES is without doubt one of the sector’s greatest client electronics shows. Whereas The Robot Document doesn’t usually quilt client robotics, it is some distance well-known that backyard-mowing robotics had been ubiquitous at CES this twelve months, with a dozen vendors showing their self sustaining programs.

The European market for client lawnmowers is already used, however the North American market is within the early stages of adoption. With out attempting out all the assorted lawnmowing robots, it’s hard to receive out the market leaders, however the two most promising alternate choices that I saw at the repeat included the unique Yarbo Garden Mower and the most fresh generation of Navimow from Segway Robotics.