Our Equipment

  • Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics), which is owned by SoftBank, designed with the ability to read emotions. It was introduced in a conference on 5 June 2014, and was showcased in Softbank mobile phone stores in Japan beginning the next day. Pepper’s ability to detect emotion comes from the ability to analyze expressions and voice tones.

  • Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics. The robot’s development began with the launch of Project Nao in 2004. On 15 August 2007, Nao replaced Sony‘s robot dog Aibo as the robot used in the RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL), an international robot soccer The Nao was used in RoboCup 2008 and 2009, and the NaoV3R was chosen as the platform for the SPL at RoboCup 2010.

  • Baxter is an industrial robot built by Rethink Robotics, a start-up company founded by Rodney Brooks. Baxter was introduced in September 2011, and was succeeded by the robot Sawyer. Baxter is a two-armed robot with an animated face. It is 3 feet tall and weighs 165 lbs without its pedestal; with its pedestal it is between 5’10” – 6’3″ tall and weighs 306 lbs. It is used for simple industrial jobs such as loading, unloading, sorting, and handling of materials. Brooks stated that Baxter was designed to perform the dull tasks on a production line. It is intended to be sold to small and medium-sized companies.

 

  • Nexus 4WD drives Mecanum wheel platform vehicle is stable and can be made to move in any direction and turn by varying the direction and speed of each wheel. Includes 100mm Aluminium Mecanum wheels, Faulhaber 12V motors with optical encoders, Arduino 328 Controller, Arduino IO Expansion, ultrasonic and IR sensors. Moving all four wheels in the same direction causes forward/backward movement, running left/right sides in opposite directions causes rotation, and running front and rear in opposite directions causes sideways movement. The platform rear wheels are mounted in a particular way, so that the suspension structure ensures that all four wheels can adhere to the ground, even when the ground is uneven.

  • TurtleBot is a low-cost, personal robot kit with open source TurtleBot was created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote in November 2010. The TurtleBot kit consists of a mobile base, 3D Sensor, laptop computer, and the TurtleBot mounting hardware kit. In addition to the TurtleBot kit, users can download the TurtleBot SDK from the ROS wiki. TurtleBot is designed to be easy to buy, build, and assemble, using off the shelf consumer products and parts that easily can be created from standard materials. As an entry level mobile robotics platform, TurtleBot has many of the same capabilities of the company’s larger robotics platforms, like PR2, Care-O-Bot. With TurtleBot, users can drive around and map their environment, see in 3D, and have enough horsepower to create their own applications.

  • TinkerKit Braccio is a fully operational robotic arm, controlled using an Arduino Board. Designed for desktop use and is supplied in kit form so you can assemble it to your own requirements. It can be used in several ways and is easily adapted. Pickup and move objects, mount a camera and track your movements in a video call or attach a solar panel and track the movement of the sun.

  • PhantomX Pincher Robot Arm Kit Mark II – Turtlebot Arm is a 4 degree-of-freedom robotic arm and an easy addition to the TurtleBot ROS robot platform.This hardware kit comes with everything needed to physically assemble and mount the arm as a standalone unit or as an addition to your Turtlebot Robot/mobile platform.