The G-dog robot is a robotic dog kit made by a Japanese company called HTI. The kit costs approximately $719.00.
The official website states:
Due to 9 small and lightweight servos (9 joints) the G-Dog is capable of various motions including “sit” and “handstand”
The kit comes with 9 servos, NI-MH battery and charger, RPU-11 Processing Unit and software for programming it. Optional are a special controller and receiver.
You can buy the kit here .
Video after the break.
The winners of the latest Trossen robotic contest have been announced. The first place winner shown here is K-9 Autonomous Robot Pet by DJSures.
This homage to Dr Who is completely autonomous. K-9 uses servos for the drivetrain and head, pager motors for ears, LEDs for eyes, a speaker, distance sensor and an LCD.
See all the winners at Trossen Robotics.
See more of this cute little guy in the video after the break.
This is probably the most expensive teddy bear ever built.
The folks at MIT’s Personal Rbotics group have created a huggable robot with over 1500 sensors, mostly under it’s skin. It also has web cameras for eyes, microphones for ears and a speaker for a mouth.
The Hugggable was originally based on the idea of companian animals, but has taken the idea much further, including a web component that allows one to interact with others through the bear via the internet.
Video after the break.
At Georgia Tech, assistant professor Charlie Kemp has been developing a robotic dog of sorts.
This robot named El-E (pronounced “Ellie”), is designed to do everything a service dog would do like open doors, open cabinets and fetch objects.
It takes over two years and $17,000 to properly train a service dog. The waiting list for these dogs is so long it can take up to 5 years to actually get one.
Kemp and his team studied over 71 commands used with service dogs, but have only put 10 into El-E so far. El-E can be controlled with voice commands or a laser.
Kemp hopes to see this technology in homes in about within 10 years.
Pretty cool. Hey Spot, fetch me a beer.
Check out a this press release with a video from Georgia Tech.
See our previous post about El-E here.
Folks at the University of Kitakyushu have created a Sea Bream or Red Snapper robot.
Hand painted scales round out this completely realistic looking fish. The fish can be outfitted with various sensors and fit right in with other fish without disturbing them.
The robot weighs 15.4 lbs and swims and floats just like real fish do.
The engineers claim it is easy to mass produce the robot. Watch out as swimming with robotic fishes will soon be the next attraction at Disneyland.
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