Snumax Robot: Smart Soft Robot

Snumax Robot is a soft robot with transformable origami wheels and a soft manipulator to move around and pick up objects. It has an adaptive gripper to pick up objects. BioRobotics Lab is behind this robot. It has won the RoboSoft Grand Challenge.

Heasy Robot: Smart Service Robot

Heasy Robot is a mobile and autonomous robot kiosk designed for public areas. Always located in the best spot and supported by its elegant and friendly design, Heasy generates 20 time more interactions compared to static kiosks. Open and connected, Heasy is an attractive interface to play with your existing digital assets or to easily build new experiences.

DelFly Nimble Robot: Smart Insect Robot

DelFly Nimble Robot is a super agile robot with a quad-wing flapping system, and it’s capable of flying just as nimbly as a real winged insect. Using its four wings, the DelFly can control three axes of flight, and it goes left or right by changing the way each one of its wings flap. It’s eerily similar to a real insect. Currently, the DelFly can fly around for more than five minutes on a full battery with a range of more than 1 kilometer (0.62 miles).

HRP-5P Robot: Smart Humanoid Robot

HRP-5P Robot is a prototype humanoid construction robot that aims at replacing heavy duty human labor. created as a response to the country’s labor shortage due to its aging population and declining birthrate, the robot can autonomously carry out various building tasks, such as picking up a plaster board and screwing it onto the wall.

TechJect Robot: Smart Spy Robot

TechJect Robot may not be ready just yet, but you can back this project at Indiegogo for just $99 to get your very own micro UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). If you're willing to chuck in another $20, you'll be able to get a noiseless version. The basic model weighs in at just less than an ounce and can hover or flit around like a bird with its two pairs of wings. TechJect also intends to sell different types of wings that will change how the unit performs.

Unibo Robot: Smart Entertainment Robot

Unibo Robot is a cute assistant robot with AI that uses speech and facial recognition to interact with humans. The Unibo can be used to provide customers with useful info, greet visitors, and serve as a smart partner to humans. Unibo Robot uses advanced language processing from Fujitsu for natural dialog. It can recognize people’s emotions from expressions and voices.

Care-E Robot: Smart Carrier Robot

Care-E Robot is a self-driving trolley packed with autonomous technology and artificial intelligence. The airline will be conducting two-day trials at both JFK and SFO this summer. The airline was planning to demo the Care-E at an event in Brooklyn today, but cancelled the event at the last minute (about 12 hours before it was set to take place).

Beachbot Robot: Smart Painter Robot

Beachbot Robot is an autonomous robot that can create large scale sand art. The robot will be deployed at a public beach to amaze beach-goers who pass by. Not only the final picture is important, the whole drawing process will provide an exceptional, magical show. The BeachBot is not just a lifeless, mechanical being; it is a friendly looking creature with a soul.

BionicOpter Robot: Smart Dragonfly Robot

BionicOpter Robot is the 17.3-inch long dragonfly drone can flutter through the air in any direction, and even hover, just like its biological inspiration. Its four carbon fiber and foil wings beat up to 20 times per-second, propelling it through the air as if it were swimming rather than flying. Actually piloting the robo-bug is achieved through a smartphone app, but an on-board ARM-based micro-controller makes small adjustments to ensure stability during flight.

MilliRobot Robot: Smart Centipede Robot

MilliRobot Robot is a tiny robot with 'caterpillar' legs could be used to carry drugs inside the human body. Researchers behind the technology say it has the equivalent strength of a human able to lift a 26-seat minibus. It can adapt to adverse environments and move efficiently along surfaces within the body lined with, or entirely immersed in, body fluids such as blood or mucus.