Octavia the Navy's android

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, confusion and sadness, and can blink. It also moves its head and can manipulate objects with its hands. Octavia is an autonomous mobile robot and moves on wheels. The Naval Research Lab has decided to develop autonomous robots capable of communicating with humans and finding solutions in specific situations because in the future more and more robots will become an integral part of the Navy. via robotsnob and foxnews