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Energid Partners with ITRI to Improve Roppie Robot

Published on December 14, 2010 at 12:56 AM

Energid Technologies, global supplier of robotic solutions, has collaborated with the Industrial Technologies Research Institute, a Taiwan-based R&D institution, to offer grabbing and management abilities for their humanoid robot named Roppie.

James English, Chief Technology Officer of Energid Technologies, has stated that humanoids can carry out operations in different ways by including additional degrees of freedom. He added that their partnership with ITRI will utilize this concept to offer improved grabbing abilities for the Roppie robot.

Source: http://www.energid.com

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