FURO - The Korean Emotional Service Robot Future Robotics has recently unveiled their new FURO (Future Robot) . It features an LCD displaying its feminine face, purportedly capable of displaying "attractive" emotions, and a larger LCD touchscreen for human interaction. The full system is of human
As a follow up of our recent Beer-Fetching post, we are happy to report that the PR2 is making a remarkable progress in this area. The people at Willow Garage have been busy (and thirsty) programming the PR2 so it can fetch beer as dictated trough a web interface by their human masters. The projec…
Surena II (2) is a new humanoid robot developed by the Tehran University in Iran. It is the first Iranian humanoid robot, it weighs 45 kilos, and is 4.76 feet tall (1.45m) and is intended for "sensitive and difficult jobs". Surena II - Iranian Humanoid Robot The robot has been unveiled on
Some time ago, the RobotShop team decided to build a telepresence system. Usually, these kinds of systems are sadly limited to a web-cam and a screen on wheels, and are simply a glorified videophone. This is not the case at RobotShop since we love robots and are all for crazy projects. This is why,
iCub Robocub is a humanoid robot that looks like a "big" baby (one meter tall!). The result of a European project and fitted with more than 50 sensors, it was created with the aim of studying the cognition and learning of children. Be aware that this robot initially comes as an empty shell. I…
A few days ago we told you about two new robots that have emerged in Japan: M3-Kindy and Noby. Noby is a humanoid baby that simulates a little baby aged 9 months. The purpose of this type of robot is to be able to study its interactions with humans in behaviors that resemble a real baby. The v…
Topio Dio is a new humanoid service robot (bartender). The design company is TOSY, a Vietnamese company that specializes in robotics. This specimen has been presented at the Automatica 2010 show in Germany. TOPIO Dio is 1.25 m tall and weighs 45 kg. The robot possesses a total of 28 degrees of…
Japanese company Hitachi which specializes in electronics, has created a robot that can roller blade. The little EMIEW2 humanoid robot has small wheels and shock absorbers which allow it to roll on surfaces that are not perfectly smooth. It's 80 cm tall and weighs 14 kg. Its maximum speed is 6…
Charli-L (Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence) is a humanoid robot developed by Virginia Tech at the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory. Dennis Hong and his team of talented students have developed this robot which can speak, walk and learn from its interaction with hu…
We already talked about Octavia, the Navy's android, a couple of weeks ago. Today, here's Octavia again in a video alongside a magician. The conjuring trick requires the robot to guess under which cup the object is hidden after they've been mixed up. The humanoid guesses correctly without any …
RobotErectus is a robot prototype of a soccer player which seems visibly ready for the soccer World Cup in South Africa :-) It shoots the ball, it can even pick the ball up from off the ground and throw it in, it jumps, it can move to the side and it can even bow to the crowd (surely after it's sc…
Japan has just unveiled two new humanoid robot prototypes, M3-Kindy and Noby. -M3-Kindy is a 5 year old android weighing 27 kg with 42 degrees of freedom. The M3-Kindy robotic child is packed with sensors: more than 109 in total (including video camera eyes). It was developed with the aim of stu…
Myon is a new humanoid robot designed by the industrial design studio, Frackenpohl Poulheim (in Cologne), and developed by the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The size of a 12 year old, Myon has the special ability to continue to operate even if some …
The humanoid robot, Asimo, by Honda has stopped by the federal polytechnic school of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. A member of the audience has reported videos of the Objectif Sciences event (open day at EPFL) which took place on May 29 and 30. You can also see Asimo there center stage walking …
Here's Octavia the android, presented at Fleet Week 2010 in New York, an annual meeting of Navy and American coast guard professionals. It was designed by the US Naval Research Lab to interact with humans (with its camera and sensors) and particularly with naval staff. The robot can express joy…
Tomohiro Shibata, a researcher in robotics and Satoko Inoue, who works for Kokoro (a robotics firm) in Japan, have found an original way of getting married. They used a priest robot. The humanoid robot, I-Fairy, officially performed the marriage. It's a world first. I-Fairy by Kokoro costs ab…
