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Soft Sensor Creates Touchy Feely Robots
Japanese company Touchence has released a new version of it’s sensor called ShokacCube. The cube is soft and can be connected together up to nine times. Five beams of light inside the sensor, allow the sensor to detect changes in three dimensions. ShokaCube can measure the amount of pressure being applied, where it is being [...]
Robots Sent To Nuclear Facility In Japan
A radiation monitoring robot has finally been sent to the nuclear facility in trouble in Japan. The robot is called Monirobo and was developed by the Nuclear Safety Technology Center in Japan. The Red Monirobo has already been deployed and is capable of detecting radiation levels, temperature and humidity. It is also armed with a [...]
Japan’s Latest Baby Robot, Babyloid
This robot is the work of Kanou Masayoshi from the Chukyo University of Science & Technology in Japan. This therapeutic robot has been designed to help the elderly feel less depressed . The robot is about 17 inches long and the arms can wiggle. The eyelids can also blink and the mouth can open and [...]
Japan Could Send Humanoid To Space Station
Japan may send a humanoid robot to the International Space Station. If so, they want the robot to tweet messages. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA, announced this week it is considering sending a humanoid robot to the International Space Station in 2013. Inspired by Robonaut, the tweeting robot from NASA, JAXA stated they [...]
Robot Uses Obstacles Instead Of Avoiding Them
Sébastien Lengagne and his colleagues at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology are working with an HRP-2 robot. Most robots try to avoid obstacles, but the goal here is to get the robot to use obstacles in the environment rather than just avoid them. Some people think this makes the robot act [...]