Japanese company Robo Garage, which is sponsored by the University of Kyoto, introduced on Tuesday (27.10.09) its latest development – a cute robot ROPID. The main achievement of the robot, which he was “pleased” the crowd showed journalists – the ability to jump and land on his feet! Height ROPIDa is 38 centimeters, weight – 1,6 kg. The impetus, he tears off his body for eight centimeters from the surface. This is still the best result of this kind of robots.

Tomokata Takashi (Tomotaka Takahashi), president of Robo Garage, who introduced the robot at a special press conference, he worked on his creation of two and a half years. But now ROPID able to walk, run, jump, bow, twirl, wave his hands as a greeting. And all these actions he performs on voice commands.