. vRotors: Race REAL drones from your home! Telepresence for Drones

https://www.vrotors.com/

Enable remote operations for your drone or robot. Connect with our existing integrations or through industry standard interfaces for Mavlink, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino. Use vRotors for your internal team projects and customers. Or open up to the world and host public and private sessions for users from around the world!

 

https://www.startengine.com/vrotors

Telepresence robots on the Moon.

 https://newatlas.com/technology/honda-future-focus-evtol-telepresence-robot-space/

It's hard to read this and not feel left out. 

My talk from the Beijing Science Festival

- Past, Present and Future of Robotics.
At the Beijing Science Festival 9/19/2014
    

   http://johnsokol.blogspot.com/2014/11/past-present-and-future-of-robotics.html

   At 14:20 in to the video I propose crowdsource exploration of the moon using them. 

Frontend-only Multi-Player. Unlimited Bandwidth. Or: What is Croquet.io, really?

https://blog.codefrau.net/2021/08/what-is-croquet-anyways.html 

LD-AIR LiDAR, TOF Sensor For Robotic Applications | Indiegogo

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ld-air-lidar-tof-sensor-for-robotic-applications--3 

Scarlet 3D camera: high speed 3D depth perception sample video with Neri...

Scarlet 3D camera: high speed 3D depth perception sample video with Nerian Vision's new product.

Real-time 3D measurement and 3D depth perception samples at 256 pixels disparity, 1216 x 1024 pixels image resolution. Taken with the new Scarlet 3D depth camera from Nerian Vision, for automotive, bin picking or critical real-time machine vision applications. Up to 120 fps and over 70 million 3D points per second available, max. grayscale resolution 5 MP.

Market launch: February 2021.

More details on:  https://nerian.com/products/scarlet-3d-depth-camera/

GPS-aided visual-inertial odometry on the OAK-D

Say goodbye to Intel’s RealSense tech by remembering its incredible demos - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/17/22629528/intel-realsense-3d-camera-tech-wind-down-business-product-demos 

What is the best simulation tool for robotics? | Robohub

https://robohub.org/what-is-the-best-simulation-tool-for-robotics/ 

Orbbec - 3D cameras

https://orbbec3d.com/

ABOUT US

Orbbec was founded in 2013 by a group of passionate engineers and researchers who all shared a belief that 3D cameras would revolutionize computing. And today, we have more than 800 employees, and our team has created the best 3D cameras available.

As one of the global leading providers of 3D cameras with mass-production ability, we have thousands of customers and partners around the world. we are committed to excellence in everything we do—from creating our own silicon chip and patented structured light pattern, to designing a 3D camera with the best accuracy, range, resolution.

3D cameras already permeate our daily life and can be designed into a wide range of products to make our lives more enjoyable. we believe that in the future, it will be hard to remember a time when computers or mobile didn’t have 3D cameras. Whether you call it artificial intelligence or simply intelligent computing like we do, we believe this will be the new baseline for what people expect out of their computing devices.

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GazeSense - 3D eye tracking software

GazeSense REMOTE EYE TRACKING SOFTWARE

https://eyeware.tech/gazesense/

Using Intel RealSense or Orbbec Astra  Depth Cameras. 

WHAT IS GazeSense™

GazeSense™ is a 3D eye tracking software that provides real-time gaze coding without the need to wear glasses and tracking the eye-gaze in 3D. Using off the shelf depth-sensing cameras, it allows you to track multiple subjects, label objects of interest in the open space and track attention towards them in real-time.

Autonomous Navigation with Improved Visual Terrain Recognition

An algorithm developed at Caltech lets machines teach themselves how to recognize landscapes, even amid the changing seasons.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-algorithm-helps-autonomous-vehicles-find-themselves-summer-or-winter

The Science Robotics paper is titled "A Seasonally-Invariant Deep Transform for Visual Terrain-Relative Navigation." 

Aeva, Maker of the First 4D LiDAR on Chip,

 frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar

https://www.aeva.ai/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aeva-maker-of-the-first-4d-lidar-on-chip-to-be-listed-on-nyse-through-business-combination-with-interprivate-acquisition-corp-301164925.html

Cerebras Systems CS-1 AI Supercomputer

 Neuralrecon

Code for "NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video", CVPR 2021 oral

License

apache-2.0

Site  https://zju3dv.github.io/neuralrecon/

Repo  https://github.com/zju3dv/NeuralRecon

NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video

Project Page | Paper

NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
Jiaming Sun^*, Yiming Xie^*, Linghao Chen, Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao
CVPR 2021 (Oral Presentation)

Copyright

This work is affiliated with ZJU-SenseTime Joint Lab of 3D Vision, and its intellectual property belongs to SenseTime Group Ltd.

Rollin' Justin Robot

High-Speed Robot Hand

LUCID Launches Helios2 – The Next Generation Time of Flight Camera. Improved 3D ToF Performance

 https://thinklucid.com/helios-time-of-flight-tof-camera/

Helios2 integrates Sony’s DepthSense™ IMX556PLR back-illuminated ToF image sensor and uses four 850nm VCSEL laser diodes. The camera delivers 640 x 480 depth resolution at up to an 8.3m working distance and at a frame rate of 30fps. Additional features include 6 different operating distance modes, an integrated ambient light filter, a wider FOV, multi-camera support and a flying pixels filter. On-camera processing provides range, intensity and confidence data which reduces the need for expensive host systems.

Helios2 HLT003S is list priced at $1,495 USD

Basler blaze - Time-of-Flight (ToF) Camera

https://www.baslerweb.com/en/products/cameras/3d-cameras/basler-blaze/



Universally usable time-of-flight camera with high precision for cost-efficient 3D imaging in real time

The Basler blaze industrial 3D camera operates on the pulsed Time-of-Flight principle. Its laser diodes (VCSEL) work in the NIR range (940 nm), generating 2D and 3D data in one shot with a multipart image, incorporating range, intensity and confidence maps.

The Basler blaze offers high resolution (VGA), precision via Sony’s innovative DepthSense™ sensor technology, plus powerful features at an attractive price, making the Basler blaze unique in the market.



The highlights of the Basler blaze camera at a glance




Outstanding 3D imaging with the latest Sony DepthSense™ IMX556PLR sensor technology
Precise, almost millimeter-accurate optical measurement with the time-of-flight method
Large measuring range, covering approximately two Euro pallets or a small car
Real-time streaming of pre-processed 3D point clouds and 2D intensity images
Daylight capability and IP67 protection for stable results under difficult conditions
Light and contrast independent
Easy system integration thanks to compact design and Gigabit Ethernet
User-friendly and platform-independent programming interface with sample programs
Reliable operation in multi-camera systems without mutual interference

Current available at Mouser

How to setup and use ESP32 WiFi Camera

James Bruton : Really Useful Robot

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CAD and Code for my projects: https://github.com/XRobots​

https://github.com/XRobots/ReallyUsefulRobot

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ampy - Utility to interact with a MicroPython board over a serial connection.

 

This can be really useful to control the I/O hardware if your control board is running on MicroPython like the Micro:Bit. 

I found ampy was being used by the Hadabot Project used for teaching ROS2. that consisted of an ESP32 Wifi board running ampy, and a simple DC motor controller on a magic chassis , turtle bot robot that is just two motors, a motor driver , and encoders, and a few sensors.  Everything was being over Wifi to be controlled by ROS via the ampy python library which is a cinch to in then map ROS messages in to micropython function calls.  

https://github.com/scientifichackers/ampy

ampy

MicroPython Tool (ampy) - Utility to interact with a CircuitPython or MicroPython board over a serial connection.

Ampy is meant to be a simple command line tool to manipulate files and run code on a CircuitPython or MicroPython board over its serial connection. With ampy you can send files from your computer to the board's file system, download files from a board to your computer, and even send a Python script to a board to be executed.

Note that ampy by design is meant to be simple and does not support advanced interaction like a shell or terminal to send input to a board. Check out other MicroPython tools like rshell or mpfshell for more advanced interaction with boards.

Unboxing video of the Robot Bittle

CES 2021: TRC Robotics Virus Killing Robot