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DoCoMo and Toyota Conduct Successful Remote Control of T-HR3 Humanoid Robot Using 5G
NTT DoCoMo and Toyota have successfully controlled the Toyota-developed T-HR31 humanoid robot in trials using fifth-generation mobile communications2 (5G) under a test environment with control from a remote location (a distance of approximately 10 kilometers) using 5G in an area between two points. The trials confirmed that the T-HR3 is capable of performing tasks that…
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Baxter Humanoid Robot set to bring ‘cool’ to manufacturing processes
Boston-based robotics firm, Rethink Robotics has rolled out Baxter, a cool humanoid designed to bring about a revolution in the manufacturing industry. With inspiration to enable manufacturers function more freely, thus reducing injuries and enhancing automation, Baxter steps in as a more affordable version for businesses. Made of 75% American-made parts, the patriotic robot will…
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Lost-in-Space B9 Robot could be more expensive than any present day humanoid
Present day’s geeky toy segment is heavily in Star Wars, retro gaming characters like Mario, comic sitcoms and other contemporary stuff. It’s been ages since I last saw somebody mocking up a character from Lost in Space television series that aired during 1965-1968. Here comes the B-9 robot from the mills of Hammacher Schlemmer which…
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Humanoid robot that speaks and entertains, the Robothespian
The Robothespian robot recently showed up at the World IT Show 2011 in COEX, Seoul, and left everyone wide eyed with wonder at its robotic antics. A humanoid robot specifically built for education, communication and entertainment purposes; this steel buddy uses air muscles to move and also has all its actions recorded into a database,…
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NASA revealed their humanoid wonder on Tuesday
NASA has finally given their space travelling humanoid robot a green signal. This robot has been long awaited and is said to make the future of space travel a lot more comprehensive as far as observations and the like are considered. ‘Robonaut’ made it out to the open at the International Space Station on Tuesday.…
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The future is Avatar, with Kinect‘s humanoid robots
Clearly Avatar was much more than a figment of Cameron’s imagination. Kinect’s latest hack will give you a taste of taste of the future, as it directly controls the limbs of a humanoid robot. Using V-Sido a real-time control system for robots, the robot is seen shaking hands using a Kinect controller. So, brace yourself,…
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Advanced Humanoid Robot Romeo, makes his debut
We met the Humanoid Bot who’ll fetch us beer and play pool, now Paris-based Aldrebaran Robotics will bring France into the elite club of countries engaged in developing advanced adult humanoid robots with their humanoid robot called Romeo being created to assist the elderly and disabled people. Scheduled to be unveiled in March next year,…
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P2 Humanoid Bot Fetches Beer and Plays Pool
The latest robot offering from Willow Garage is so ridiculous I actually laughed out loud when I read about it. Possibly every man’s dream bot come true, this humanoid robot will join you for a game of pool, get you another beer from the fridge and open it for you, clean up your empty cans…it’ll…
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Iran’s Soorena-2 humanoid robot looks good but what does it do?
A new Iranian humanoid robot called Soorena-2 has been designed by developed by 20 researchers and engineers from the University of Tehran to be used to conduct what are being called “sensitive jobs”. What these jobs actually are we don’t know. The President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just recently showed off this 4.7-foot walking robot to the…
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New Korean robot, Mahru does real time imitations, robot see, robot do
Samsung Electronics and the Korean Institute of Science and Technology’s (KIST) Cognitive Robotics Center in Seoul have designed what can only be construed as a robot mimic. His real name is Mahru though. Mahru uses motion-capture technology and can actively imitate what a person is doing to a great extent. He’s a bipedal robot and…
