Robot Living

Korean company Korn Tech has introduced a humanoid robot called Rogun that stands 1 meter tall and can walk, greet and shake hands, dance, speak  and sing.

Rogun also has a large LCD screen on his chest and can be used to monitor your home over the internet when away or used as a nanny.  I’m not sure I would let this robot be a nanny on his own, but kids should have fun playing with him.

Rogun also sports the following:

• Onboard 1.2GHz Pentium4 grade computer
• 21cm (7inch) Color LCD Screen
• Wi-Fi, WiMAX, HSDPA and Bluetooth Capabilities
• Power supply: Li-poly Battery or Wire
• Weight: 7.8Kg, Speed: 800m/h
• Sensors: Gyro, Tilt, IR Sensor, Pressure Sensors

Click through for a cheesy video of Rogun.

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Check out JO-Zero in the video above as he does the limbo, gets up after falling and helps rescue a disaster victim.

JO-Zero was created by Motohiro Nakamura and has 10 degrees of freedom in his legs, 8 in his arms, and 2 in his waist.

This amazing robot was unleashed last September and can be bought as a kit for about $1,300.

Link via (Geek.com)

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Ibn Sina, the Arabic speaking robot, recently traveled by airplane  from from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. He stunned fellow travelers as he arrived in a wheelchair, and hung out in the lounge before boarding the flight.

The planning and integration of numerous Emirates departments is testament to our commitment to give every passenger, human or not, the best level of care and service possible,’ Mohammed Mattar, divisional senior vice president of airport operations, was quoted in local media as saying.

Ibn Sina embodies the forward thinking and innovative ethos of Emirates and we were honoured to have him fly with us.

See our previous post about Ibn Sina and his Facebook page.

Link via (Daily Mail)

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A new hobby type robot called Palro from Japanese company Fuji Soft has been introduced. This cute robot will cost around $3,300 and stands 15″ tall.

Palro has 20 DOF, 4 microphones, a speaker, camera, 3 axis gyro sensor, 4 pressure sensors and an LED array in its head.

Palro is also able to recognize and respond to voice commands and can also download new programs such as dance routines wirelessly.  If you take Palro’s cool looks and all of its capabilities into account, we think this is a pretty cool robot for the price.

See the Palro press release.

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This is a project from the University of Dortmund and Marko Wickwrath.

The Bioloid robot shown here can actually climb the wall all on its own.  It actually figures out where to go on the fly instead of following a pre-programmed route.

The bioloid robots climbs a freely configurable wall, this is NOT a predefinded motion sequence. It is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.
The final scenario will be a bioloid looking at the wall using an onboard vision system, detecting marked grips, calculating the best way up, walking to the start position and climbing up the wall, totally autonomously

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