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An Autonomous Robot as your Grocery Shopping Assistant Say goodbye to the conventional push and pull shopping cart as Kartum by Charles Bombardier has revolutionized your weekly shopping experience. Kartum is an electric autonoumous shopping cart that is also a virtual grocery-shopping assistant. It has features that will pick up the items in your shopping list that you can create via an online application, monitor your items that will be over your budget and even calculate the calories in your items. It can even plan the best itinerary in the store which can link up with the store’s database to identify location of the products. This ‘smart shopping cart’ also eliminates the need to stop at the counter as you can pay by using your digital print. Once you unload the items from the cart, it will proceed with the next customer in sight. There is no need to plug Kartum in as it recharges itself with wireless electricity. It walks along with you based on the user’s preferences, may it be behind or just ahead of you. Bet that this will make you want to visit the grocery stores even more. Photo by Charles Bombardier 52 JULY 2016 Future Cities & Robotics
A Robotic Arm that Acts Like an Elephant Trunk Biomimetics is a damn exciting field. Engineers in this field use nature as their inspiration for systems and designs to create awesome stuff. For example, they used the elephant’s trunk to create a cool robotic arm. At first glance, the thingamajig looks like a cross between a mechanical claw and iron snake with a good measure of tentacle horror thrown in. In fact, they are reminiscent of the sweet robotic arms used by the infamous Dr. Octopus, the Spiderman villain. Of course, they are calling it the Bionic Handling Assistant, the blandest name possible for the cool robot. But it’s cool anyway. As it stands, elephant trunks are possibly the coolest appendages in the Animal Kingdom. So, making a robotic arm based on that is a fantastic idea. This robotic arm was made by Festo, a German automation company. What is even more fantastic is that the arm acts and learns just like a baby’s arm. The researcher will guide the arm to perform certain actions. The robot will learn and memorizes the movements so as to repeat them whenever necessary. This will enable the robot to fulfill functions such as operating in tight quarters and helping people in the medical or the industrial sector. It can even be programmed to change a light bulb. Festo has also been responsible for the creation of the first robot kangaroo that actually moves like the real thing. Again, they have used biomimetics to mimic the leaping movements of the kangaroo precisely. The robot jumps and lands perfectly as a result. Now, that’s a kickass use of science. Photo by Festo JULY 2016 Future Cities & Robotics 53
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