I could totally use one of these in the kitchen. Although it appears that the robot’s ability to properly cut stuff in equal sizes still requires some improvements, I’m pretty convinced that he still has better developed culinary skills than me. Related article here.
A friend of mine with an awesome taste in both music and visuals just shared this piece of perfection on my Facebook wall. =) The clip totally blew my mind, mainly due to the brilliant effect of the right combination of audio and visuals. The track is called “Fear” by µ-Ziq. I completely love it. This is the fist time I hear the name of this musician, and now I’m surely going to get my hands on his albums.
The video, seems to be a part of the process of building a robot that can simulate emotional responses among other things. I have a feeling that I’ve come across this team’s work before… I have to dig it out of my archives. It’s pretty fascinating work.
October 29th is a very special day. It’s ASIMO’s birthday! Yes, ASIMO turned 10 years old a few days ago! Below is an awesome video by Honda, showing a timeline of the development of ASIMO.
It’s hard to believe that ASIMO has been around for 10 years already! In the first 7-8 years, the improvements and new capabilities that were added to ASIMO were rather frequent and pretty impressive. However I’m afraid that I haven’t read anything on the ASIMO website in the past couple of years to really WOW me! And now with some serious competitors [like NASA’s R2], I think ASIMO has some catching up to do! So happy birthday ASIMO, and whatever you’re doing, hurry it up! =P
You can read about ASIMO’s birthday here, and here‘s a story released by Honda about development of ASIMO.
“Dennis Hong, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory, or RoMeLa, has created robots with the most unusual shapes and sizes — from strange multi-legged robots to amoeba-like robots with no legs at all. Now he’s unveiling a new robot with a more conventional shape: a full-sized humanoid robot called CHARLI, or Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence. The robot is 5-foot tall (1.52 meter), untethered and autonomous, capable of walking and gesturing. But its biggest innovation is that it does not use rotational joints.”
Here’s another serious competitor for ASIMO. I just came across this article on IEEE Spectrum and was pretty amazed by how natural some of this robot’s moves are. And it actually looks pretty neat too! The wrist + finger movements / control impressed me the most.
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