The latest generation of Honda’s robot ASIMO humanoid gave Barcelona its European debut. Honda hopes that he could one day be so advanced that it is a real human assistance. The new ASIMO embodies several significant technological improvements over its predecessors, including a new, schnittigeres design, yet more fluid and quick movements and the ability of almost 6 km / h to run. The agile ASIMO has many other new capabilities in terms of its mobility and intelligence. Continue reading
The latest robot Hitachi, EMIEW2 is intelligent enough to differentiate between three human voices simultaneously through 14 microphones embedded in his head that provide voice recognition capabilities. To this end, the voice recognition is a separate audio source and recognition profile noise. The first focuses on the direction of the person speaking, allowing the EMIEW2 to know who he speaks with a distance of 2 meters, ignoring all other noises. The EMIEW2 is 80cm high and it is suitable for the job of receptionist:). It moves through a wheel after each leg, and he can climb stairs.
Sega Toys has unveiled its Music Robot CDO which is very similar to Sony Miuro, which makes it an affordable alternative to those who believe that the Miuro is too expensive. The Music Robot CDO does not route when compared to Miuro, as the lack of WiFi connectivity and the NPC are most remarkable. But at a price of only $ 150 (instead of $ 1000 for the Miuro), it’s hard to complain. The LCD shows “mood” of the current CDO Robot Music, dancing following the tempo of the song. Continue reading
It seems that a team of researchers at the University of Plymouth are currently working on a robot baby to look humanoid named iCub (it looks like the robots seen in the movie I, Robot). At a height of 1m, experts in robotics will work on the iCub for the next four years, with assistance from experts of language development in order to learn the robot to think and talk. Some research also include experiments on the iCub, including the insertion of objects of different shapes in the corresponding holes located on a box, as well as stacking blocks of wood. I wonder what will happen the day when a robot will be more intelligent than us …