P3 and ASIMO – The Honda Humanoid Robots

End users and system integrators in the lab automation market highlighted the need for a smaller robot capable of being installed in the confined spaces often encountered in research labs and manufacturing cells. Stable responded with a brand new machine – the TX40.
 
Increasing demands are being placed on all activities in biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical and [...]

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., June 7, 2004 – Robotic Production Technology (RPT) will introduce a new robotic laser cutting system at its technical open house on June 22-24 at its Auburn Hills headquarters. Automotive interior trim manufacturers can witness this product in action, trimming a low pressure molded, textile covered interior trim product.
RPT is the [...]

The Japanese company Eager Co decided to check how well you can use the “communication” robots for promotional purposes. Within three days, January 9-11, 2010 in 18 restaurants in Osaka (Japan) robot ENON, specially developed by Fujitsu, will communicate with visitors. Among other things, researchers want to find out how important marketing robots use gestures [...]

Japanese robots continue to demonstrate dance lessons for their unquenchable youth. At this time the girl robot who dances a polka, called Ellis. Business name – Dancing Doll.
According to a press release, “it is always fifteen years. She was tall, 60 centimeters. 25 servo motors, a pair of gyros and accelerometer enables it to [...]

In Japan, and in some other countries is becoming a popular hobby – learning, build robots. Therefore, the market is constantly appear more new sets of robots. Kyosho Company sells a new version of the humanoid robot Manoi PF01.
User must gather more than 100 parts, including 17 servo motors for the joints Manoi and [...]

Today one of the problems facing domestic robots is the lack of communication between robots and household appliances such as washing machines, stoves, etc. So, today the average job yet difficult to perform household duties: cleaning the floor, cleaning and folding the scattered items and clothing; loading washing machine, washing dishes, being in a closed [...]

Canadian of Japanese ancestry Le Trung (Le Trung) conducts the Christmas and New Year holidays in the company of a girl robot, which he created for himself. Her name is Eiko (Aiko), and, apparently, it has become a member of the family of the inventor. Even his mom and dad love to chat with Eiko, [...]

He knows almost everything. Walk on the roughest terrain, climb hills of 35 ° tilt, carrying the 140 pounds of equipment in snow or mud. It even happens to restore equilibrium (see video) when he slipped on a patch of ice. BigDog is the “quadruped robot the world’s most advanced”, created by Boston Dynamics, as [...]

Honda announced the development of the first man-machine controlled by thought, applied to a humanoid robot. This device technology has been developed jointly with the Japanese company Shimadzu based in Tokyo and Research Institute ATR.
The interface is based on two EEG recording (better known as the EEG), which measure electrical activity in the scalp, [...]

The robot developed at the University of famous MIT in Boston (United States) was the star of the eleventh show of the Virtual Reality in Laval, in late April. The particularity of Nexia MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) is not its mode of locomotion, no legs to Asimo, or his arm, his ability to express feelings [...]