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.
It's a sort of remote-controlled telepresence robot.
In other words, it could almost play the role of your clone that you send to meetings in your place :-)
Mahru is also able to dance and perform Taekwondo movements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJmQqC1nHTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3laFyqaZZNY
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