Robot Living

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 [...]

A Japanese robotic mannequin can change a pose when a customer walks by.
The robot uses a proximity sensor to detect how close the shopper is and then changes its pose.  They hope to one day use facial recognition software to determine a viewers sex and even make the robotic mannequins react to shopping bag logos.
Tatsuya [...]

The Osaka Tenjin Festival is one of three great festivals in Japan.  This yearly July festival attracts more than a million visitors each year.
This year, a Wakamaru robot from Mistubishi Heavy Industries is being trained for the festival.  See our previous post when this robot was in a stage play.
The robot is being taught the [...]

Wow.  This was certainly part of one  little boy’s childhood fantasies.  These awesome robots were built by Jiro Aizawa in the 1950’s and 1960’s and apparently have been sleeping in a warehouse until now.
The Google translator states the following:
Were sleeping in a warehouse until it’s released by the packaging. We look at the state [...]

Check out this cool little Japanese robot that has been programmed to grind and make coffee.
The robot has been programmed to execute a lengthy complicated set of maneuvers. Now if only it could also make toast.
Click through for the video.