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Actroid-F Makes Appearance at AIST Lab Fair, Wows World
This is the “world’s first true Android”, called the Actroid-F. She’s (I’m sorry, it’s) designed to be used in hospitals and other locations involving natural human-to-human communication, and can...
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Nikko displayes 3D Measurement System For Food Processing
Nikko displayed a 3D measurement system that it developed jointly with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, at FOOMA Japan 2011. This system uses four pairs of stereo...
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Actroid-F Robot Gets A Brother And An Eye Implant
AIST has developed a male version of its android robot Actroid-F, which was first shown to the public last year. These human-like robots imitate the movements of the people they are watching, and are...
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Geminoid-F Android Waits for a Friend in a Tokyo Department Store
If you go to the Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, by Valentines Day, you will be able to see the Geminoid-F android casually sitting in a show window, looking as if it’s waiting for a...
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[Hands-On] Hugvie – the huggable communication medium with a heartbeat
The Hugvie is a cushion in a minimalistic human form. It contains a pocket into which you can put your mobile phone, transforming it into a physical communication medium. The shape of this huggable...
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Mahoro lab android automates dangerous lab work
Mahoro, co-developed by AIST and Yaskawa, is a general-purpose android for automating lab work that previously had to be done manually. The robot can do tasks, such as dispensing and culturing, faster...
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Brain Computer Interface used to control the movement and actions of an...
Researchers at the CRNS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, are working on ways to control robots via thought alone. “Basically we would like to create devices which would allow people to feel embodied,...
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AIST – Light-controlling sheet switches between mirror and transparent states
There is another really amazing new technology captured on video by Don Kennedy and Ryo Osuga of DigInfo.TV. I think there are a lot of implications for building eco-friendly buildings and cars and...
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Dr. Kanako Miura Made Robots Walk Like Humans. She Will be Missed.
While riding her bike on Sunday, May 19th, at approximately 3:30pm, highly accomplished and well-regarded robotics researcher Dr. Kanako Miura was struck by a large truck near Charlesgate Park in the...
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Japanese Robots: Honda’s High-Access Survey Robot Goes to Work in Fukushima....
The first signs of trouble at Fukushima were quickly followed by expectations of an action-ready ASIMO leaping to the rescue. Honda’s humanoid remains far from able, but their new High-Access Survey...
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