It’s been scaring the Beejezus out us for some time now, but Boston Dynamics’ scary, scuttling robodog has now been spotted shuffling about in the wild, in preparation for military duties.
We’ve been fascinated by the way Japanese scientists have been developing the Geminoid robots, and one of the ‘female’ versions has gone on display in Japan as an interactive mannequin.
Armed with stereoscopic vision and some object and facial recognition programs, the Qbo robot can be seen learning to recognise itself in this short video.
Placed in front of a mirror, the open source Qbo robot was asked to identify the reflection and soon realised it was, in fact, himself.
Ready and willing to start scrambling up a wall near you is Muscle Corporation’s cunning ladder-climbing robot, a humanoid creation packing innovative compact muscle units.
When the first Simroid – a super-realistic dental training robot developed in Japan – was released back in 2007, folks were pretty knocked out by the level of realism on show, but the latest version is breathtakingly realistic.
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It’s clearly not quite the finished article yet, but NSK’s new four-legged robot with wheels has great potential to be developed into a robotic guide dog for the blind.
Even the most sophisticated humanoid robots tend to walk like Ken Barlow after ten pints and a nosebag of ketamine, but the super-Realistic HRP-4C robot from Japan now manages an astonishingly life-like strut.
Taking us a few robo-steps closer to a real robot future is PETMAN, an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US Army.
Say hello to MABEL, a robot that can hoof around a room like a real human and even traverse uneven ground.
Now the proud owner of the title, “The fastest bipedal robot with knees,” the robot managed to hurtle around a track at 6.8 miles per hour on a track at Michigan’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Japanese researchers are developing a robot that can think, learn and act by itself using advanced artificial intelligence which lets it ‘think like humans’ when taking on new tasks.
Here at Wirefresh we’ve got a lot of time for weird, scary and just plain odd robotic creations, so when we heard about a bizarre robot silicon mouth, we had to share it with you.
Frankly, we can’t get enough of the spooky, lifelike humanoids being created under the Geminoids banner, and last month the robots – and the humans they’re based on – all gathered for a Summit at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Nara, Japan.
Created by the Aalborg University in Denmark, this startlingly realistic android is an update of the original Geminoid robot created by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR in 2005.
Seen rolling along the streets of Mountain View, California is this little stick robot that is filmed popping into a cafe to buy a snack.
Rarely do things look as wrong as this, but researchers at Osaka University’s AFFETTO were apparently tasked with creating a robot modelled after a young child with a face so realistic that it would be, “treated as a human being by human caregivers, not as a robot.”
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