PALRO (for PAL = friend and Ro = Robot) is a new small humanoid robot built by the Japanese company Fuji Soft. It will be available for sale during 2010. Rated technical specifications, Palro measures 39.8 cm (15 inches), and weighs 1.9 kg (3.5 pounds). The small humanoid robot has 20 degrees …
The National Museum of Sciences and Innovation, Miraikan in Japan, displays several models created by Honda robots. It is a meeting-point for the whole family. Too bad that Japan is not closer to us :-) You will see mainly the highly publicized Asimo in several different positions including a ver…
We knew the female Robot Teacher android, now here is her male counterpart. However, this robot teacher barely resembles a human. Rather, it seems to have travelled from a distant planet (an alien? :-) ). It measures 4.1 feet (1.26 m) and weighs 33 pounds (15 kg). This specimen developed by the…
Diego-San is the fruit of the imagination and the Development of Japanese researchers. The picture shows Dr. Javier Mogellan from the Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD. The baby measures 4.2 feet high (1.30 m) and weighs 30kg. He has more than 20 moving parts in his body. It can stand alon…
The secretive French robotics company, Aldebaran Robotics , has released a sneek-peek of its secretive robotic project, Nao . There a a few videos of the robot partially revealing itself. We get a glimps of it's hand waving, what appears to be its feet, and some facial recognition. The 14 person …
ZMP, the Makers of the Nuvo robot have created an educational version called, "eNuvo" for use in schools. Robots-Dreams.com has some video and more information about it, in addition to the video on ZMP's site. [The] 12 weeks course includes: Coordinate systems of link structure, Motor Driver circui…
I predict 2006 will be the year of the RoboOne robots. First, Hitec gets into the action with its RoboNova robots, and now Volks Inc. is selling their very slick "Robofie" robots. Just from looking at the movies, it would appear that the Robofie is a bit more dexterous than RoboNova (here are some …
You may have seen the new Manoi robot from Kyosho featured on Akihabara News or Engadget, the the thing that sruck me, was its uncanny likeness to Chroino, which made big waves at this year's RoboNexus 2005 conference (photos). Engadget claims they're built around the Kyosho KHR-1 robot body, but …
