NAMO the female humanoid robot

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 50th anniversary of this Thai university at the end of March to be its mascot. Namo has 16 DOF (degrees of freedom) and measures 1.30 m tall. It "sees" thanks to its camera which allows it to avoid obstacles and it moves using its three multi-directional wheels. Namo can also speak (with a young girl's voice), even if it can't yet hold conversations. Here are the videos of the young lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK_yUz4vKWY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAIow8Gohvc via plasticpals