Nuro Robot: Smart Automobile Robot

Nuro, a Mountain View, California, based startup, unveiled an autonomous vehicle Tuesday designed for making local commerce deliveries. The company plans to have several of the vehicles making deliveries on public roads by the end of the year. It's also developing another version of the vehicle that's suitable for mass production.

CUE Robot: Smart Basketball Robot

A new basketball-playing robot in Japan may not be the biggest player on the court, but it sure can shoot. Known as "CUE," the six-foot-three-inch bot sinks free throws with 100 percent accuracy — 10 out of 10 in a fun new video released on March 14 (see below). That’s way better than the current NBA average of 77 percent — and even better than the record of Stephen Curry, whose 90.3 percent career average is tops among active players in the league.

PowerBase Robot: Smart Bed Robot

Meet the Purple PowerBase, a new fully adjustable bed frame that promises to give you uniquely customized comfort and, most importantly, a better night’s sleep. Perhaps one of the more sophisticated adjustable bases we’ve seen, the PowerBase offers not only the ability to adjust the position of your bed, but also its height as well.

ATR-Orbiter Robot: Snow Plow Robot

The ATR Orbiter is fully electric and tracked, so it can take on sand, snow, and challenging terrain. This radio controlled mobile robot crawler comes with an electric winch, stainless steel front lift , and remote control range of 150 meters.

Rydis H67 Robot: Smart Vacuum Cleaner

The Moneual Rydis H67 Pro has a very simple glossy black finish with an understated display panel. The main cleaning modes are vacuum, mop (using an attachable mop plate and disposable wet and dry cleaning pads), and hybrid (a combo of vacuum and mop). You can access these options either from the remote control or directly on the bot using the "M" (mode) button.

Smores-EP Robot: Smart Modular Robot

SMORES-EP is a modular robot designed and built at the University of Pennsylvania, and used by researchers at Penn and Cornell. SMORES stands for Self-Assembling MOdular Robot for Extreme Shapeshifting, and EP refers to the Electro-Permanent magnets the modules use to connect. SMORES-EP modules have four degrees of freedom (pan, tilt, and left/right wheels).

He Qing Robot: Smart Chef Robot

He Qing Robot, grew frustrated with his spouse’s constant admonitions about his cooking ability (or lack thereof). As a result, he invented the new cooking machine, which has apparently successfully freed him from his own cooking responsibilities. Apparently, ever since he brought the cooker home, he hasn’t received any additional complaints about the availability of meals at home.

Maverick Robot: Smart Painter Robot

Maverick takes the form of what could be mistaken for a miniature robotic forklift, raising a paint sprayer to the right level using an elevator system, and navigating a room with with a trio of omni wheels. This allows Maverick to slide in an X/Y direction as well as rotate to properly fill in corner areas. Currently, the robot can operate via a waypoint system in order to keep it a certain distance from the wall while spraying, using LiDAR to map its environment.

Octinion Robot: Strawberry Picking Robot

Octinion Robot is designed and built by Belgian engineering company Octinion. Using some smart machine vision algorithms and a 3D-printed hand, it’s able to work out when a particular strawberry is ripe for plucking, and then pick it off the forb (yep, we hadn’t heard that word either!) without causing any damage.

Xiaodan Robot: Smart Assistant Robot

Xiaomi does not miss any technological sector, not even products for children. From toys, drones, scooters, computers to robots. However, in the market, there are already different proposals for robots but none has reached an appropriate level of functionality. That’s why Xiaomi reinvents itself with NUWA robotics brand and brings us XiaoDan, the new educational and emotional robot.