The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has declared that it will launch a humanoid in 2013 to the International Space Station to serve as an interactive companion for crewmembers living aboard the station.
The NEC Corporation that had started the development of the PaPeRo since 1997 (Partner-type-Personal-Robot) has launched a new version of PaPeRo for helping the elderly stay active by gathering information about the local activities.
A flexible solar cell that converts sunlight into electricity even when stretched is the latest breakthrough in the work of Stanford University's Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering who has created an artificial electronic "super skin" that also has applications in prosthetics, robotics and detection of harmful diseases.
Meka Robotics has released Meka M1 Mobile Manipulator, a humanoid. The robot has a pair of nimble arms, a wheel base that can move in all directions and a head featuring the Microsoft Kinect sensor. The robot’s computer uses Meka Robotics’ real-time control software with the ROS annexure.
Robots are gradually beginning to taking over all our boring and mundane chores. Already our metal assistants have been taught to flip pancakes and shoot arrows. People at Fujitsu recently released video footage of them teaching a robot how to erase a whiteboard.
Automated help in the home and hospitals could be the answer to all sorts of problems. A rapidly ageing ‘first world’ is therefore paying close attention to Japan's dalliance with automated care.
Scientists at the Information and Robot Technology of the University of Tokyo have developed a new robot termed as IRT Humanoid. The full-scale bipedal robot features 32° of freedom.
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2011 will be supported by Gates Corporation for the fourth consecutive year. Gates, a Crown Supplier for the FRC, will donate over $500,000 worth of power transmission products to be used by students to design and build robots which are then tested in competitive games.
Honda’s ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) humanoid robot has set a new world record and has been honored as the World’s Most Advanced Humanoid Robot.
The Robotics Division of Honda has developed a helmet archetype that can comprehend brain signals.
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