Here is the world first humanoid buttock. Developed by Nobuhiro Takahashi from University of Electro-Communications in Japan. Possible application ? may be this. Japanese scientists have turned to one area of research that has, so far, gone ignored: the robotic ass. Built by Nobuhiro Takahashi and a team at the Tokyo University of Electro-Communications, this [...]
Japanese Group Softbank (Telecom/Internet company) is buying 80% of french robot maker Aldebaran Robotics for 100 million dollars. First companies that invested in the startup are now out : Intel Capital (Mr. Maisonnier’s own fund), iSource, Credit Agricole Private Equity and CDC Innovation. Aldebaran was created in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier and has a staff team [...]
DARwIn-OP for “Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence–Open Platform” is an aopen-source humanoid robot developed by korean robot manufacturer Robotis. Researchers at Canadian University of Manitoba just customized him as a Hockey Player. This humanoid robot is actually a girl called “Jennifer”. “While there are many improvements on the horizon for the robotic player, its progress [...]
There is no doubting that technology has a major impact on our lives. We live and breathe our computers, smartphones and tablets on a daily basis. However, technology within the next few years is promising to take us to new levels – social interaction with robots that may just lead to love, marriage, and yes, [...]
Aldebaran Robotics has unveiled the new generation of his little humanoid robot called NAO. Since the company started to sell the robot 3 years ago, 2000 NAO were sold worldwide. This new release named “NAO Next Gen” is still intended for Research and Education in Robotics (no public version at a more affordable price than 15 [...]
A human who moves remotely the arm of a robot, ok we already saw this many times. But a robot that moves the arm and hand of a man with no human involvment, I must admit this is crazy! Authors of this experiment are French. The Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier [...]
HRP-4C japanese humanoid woman knows how to dance and how to sing. Now the girl knows how to walk like a real woman! The replica is almost perfect with a natural look: swing of the arms, bending the knees and ankles … and even a swing of the buttocks. HRP-4C was developed by AIST National Institute [...]
Primer V2 is a small humanoid robot (a customized $2000 Kondo KHR-3HV developped by Mr. Guero from Japan) who can ride a bike. It weighs 5.5 lbs and measures 20 inch high. The bike can reach speeds of 6 mph. Soon ready for the Tour de France ?
The highly anticipated film about the Singularity, Transcendent Man Ray Kurzweil, has been released today on DVD in the U.S. To recap, the technological Singularity is -according to wikipedia- “a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid and the growth of super-human intelligence is so great that the future after the singularity becomes [...]
Always a little further in realism and imitation of human beings, here is Humanoid Nurse from Kokoro Robotics (Japan). In the same style as the Japanese dancer HRP -4C, this time the trick is in his facial expression. She can smile, blink, tipping the head. Actroid-F was created in order to show his emotions to [...]
A few days ago I wrote about the humanoid HRP-4C woman who sings with relative ease. Well now she did even better by dancing with a troupe of Japanese girl dancers. And we can say that the result is amazing, you would not think it’s a robot woman. If you’re sitting at the back of [...]
HRP-4C is a female humanoid robot that is not new (video 1 – video 2). But what is new is that she sings! And not bad ! Next step: when will they insert emotions into robots ? In a few years we will be hard to know who is human or it is not ;-)
Iran has just revealed its first humanoid robot named Surena 2. Surena, named after an ancient Persian warrior, has been presented during a ceremony, attended by Iraqi President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and some 20 robotic researchers from Teheran University who have worked on the project. This clumsy biped robot walks like a human being, but slower, [...]
