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…
The Osaka Institute of Technology has created a humanoid robot called JoiTech. The robot which is almost as tall as a man - between 1.30 m and 1.60 m - has been designed with the aim of playing football. It made its first appearance at the Japanese 2010 Robocup. JoiTech has 22 degrees of freed…
Mahru is a humanoid robot developed by the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in collaboration with Samsung. The idea behind this prototype is to get it to repeat the movements of a human by mimicry. Somebody moves in a certain way and the robot moves in exactly the same manner. …
Here's NAMA - for Novel Articulated Mobile platform - a humanoid robot young lady built by the FIBO Institute in Thailand. The job of NAMO is to welcome people at the University of Technology Thonburi and could even be used in museums as a hostess. The humanoid robot has been created to mark the …
The Technical University of Munich (Germany) and the Institute for Autonomous Systems Technology (TAS) have developed a humanoid robot called LOLA. This prototype has required 6 years of work. It can move autonomously indoors thanks to a sophisticated visual recognition system constantly connect…
The Petman robot by Boston Dynamics is a mobile robot prototype on two legs which moves like a human being. Petman can walk at a speed of 6 km/h. Look closely at how its feet and legs move in slow motion; he walks like a man. Now imagine once this biped robot has been developed without cords, …
Acel by RobotBaka is a small humanoid robot that we really like. Provided with wheels, this mini transformer can ride like a motorcycle with two front wheels and two mini wheels in the feet. It's capable of hitting a ball, running, dancing and moving quickly. The Youtube link of Robotbaka: ht…
Here's a video which shows the full range of the capacities of Bioloid robots. They're dancing here to the song "Sorry, Sorry" (5 humanoids synchronized) and then one of them (transformed into a robot dog) opens the refrigerator so that a second one can help itself to what's inside. N…
AILA is a new humanoid robot prototype presented at Hanover Messe 2010 which is taking place right now in Hanover in Germany (from April 19 to 23). The robot uses RFID and SemProM (Semantic Product Memory) coupled with a 3D camera to grab and carry various objects. Aila is able to remember the …
We were telling you yesterday about the new Robovie R3 robot prototype by ATR-Robotics and Vstone. Well, suddenly today we can finally find videos of this humanoid robot from Japan. As a reminder, the Robovie-R Ver3 is intended to act as a support guide robot for the elderly and people with impa…
After Robovie R2 in the desktop robot version 3 weeks ago, there's now Robovie R3, a full-size version. This humanoid robot is human sized and is intended to support the elderly and handicapped. Designed by ATR and VStone, this prototype moves at a speed of 2.5 km/h and its movements have alrea…