Twendy-One the domestic robot

Twendy-One is a robot built by the team of researchers working for professor Shigeki Sugano at the Japanese University of Waseda. It's a domestic robot which was created to provide help to the elderly. The design required ten years of work and funding from twenty private companies. It has forty-seven degrees of freedom in the arms, legs, neck and body. It can pick up objects and carry a person weighing up to 35 kg. Its hand, with four fingers has extreme precision to hold, grasp, and carry different shaped objects. It uses CCD cameras for stereo vision, has a speaker and speech recognition, as well as sensors on the head that can feel human touch. Twendy-One is completely covered with soft skin in silicone (almost unnoticeable). It measures 1.47 m (4'9) and weighs 111 kg (244 lbs). This humanoid robot shares the same lineage with Robosoft Kompaï and SeRopi from Kitech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6b8WfijgYw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CETUmThm8Rg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoq_r2dUf8g via plasticpals