Category: Inventive Uses

This hybrid doesn’t have a lot of purpose, but is being used for research:

The idea is that it can walk on two legs, but when it comes across difficult terrain it can fly.

It doesn’t look like it can carry anything, and it would appear that this version does nothing a simple drone cannot do. I would expect a flying drone uses less power to travel the same distance.

Still, unique! And it can balance in precarious situations, so we might end up seeing rotors on ground-based robots one day to provide extra stability.

It’s not your walking, talking type of robot. But it does one thing very well and could end up being in a lot of homes.

Caia sits in one place (outside or by a window) and turns a mirror so that sunlight is always being reflected into the same part of the same room all day. It is solar powered and weatherproof. All you need to do is buy it for $229 and spend 1 minute setting it up.

Then your gloomy room will be filled with natural light, forever.