Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Japan's Osaka University never fails to fascinate us with his amazingly life-like robotic creations. However, his latest creation, the Telenoid R1 is very different. Designed as a way of remote communication, the Telenoid R1 aims to make you feel as though the other person on the line is right there with you. What better way to stay connected?
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FujiSoft PALRO robot learns English [Video]
FujiSoft's PALRO just keeps getting better, with the original educational robot getting an object-recognition upgrade late last year, and now learning English. Seemingly suggesting a launch outside of the current Japan-only market, the Atom-based 'bot can now maintain a conversation with English users.
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Kinect robot control hack gives you an aerobics buddy [Video]
With all the Kinect hacks we're seeing, it probably doesn't matter whether gamers are leaving their motion-control sensors to gather dust or otherwise; there are enough DIY-addicts buying it to make the peripheral a success. Latest is Asura's V-Sido remote app for the G-Robots GR-001 'bot, which can follow your movements for some aerobics-style mimicry.
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Karotz Rabbit Robot Will Tell You the Weather After it Wakes You Up [Video]
Having a personal robot tell you all of your pertinent, and need-to-know information every morning is probably a dream come true for some people, especially if it's a small rabbit-like robot that kids would find adorable. That's exactly what Karotz is. A small, rabbit-looking robot that's meant to help you throughout your day, from waking you up, to telling you how the weather is outside before you step out the door.
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THKR-4 Humanoid Robot will Rub Your Shoulders, Pour You a Drink [Video]
Depending on the day, sometimes you just don't want to have to get up to get something, even when it's a drink out of the refrigerator. Completely understandable, and that's why humanoid "helper" robots are still the one thing that many people want in their homes. In Japan, home robots aren't in every home, but there's plenty of them in development. The one big difference between them and this 'bot, designated THKR-4, is that this one was designed with just off-the-shelf parts.
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Engkey Egg-Shaped Robot Teaches South Korean Students English
It looks like South Korea's aspirations of having robots in classrooms, teaching their youth, which were aiming for 2012, may be seeing adoption at a quicker rate. But, that's not stopping a school in Daegu, South Korea, from planting a few 3-foot tall robots, oddly shaped like huge eggs, right in front of students, and teaching them English. The students reportedly love the Engkey, though, and that's kept the little bots around.
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Cellbots Android app wants to be your robot’s brain [Video]
We first wrote about the Cellbots project back in March, when Android tinkerers were first looking at the potential to use a Googlephone as the brain for simple Arduino-based robots. Now that project has spawned a full - and comprehensive - Android app, allowing you to use your handset as a remote control for a robot (with various platforms supported), as a brain directly mounted on the robot itself, or even pairing two handsets to delivery both roles.
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Gostai Jazz Telepresence Robots Watch Your Home or Office, Let You be in Two Places at Once
It may not be possible to be in two different places at once, yet, but that's exactly why we need telepresence robots like the two Jazz 'bots created by Gostai in France. There are two different robots for people to choose. The first, which is the Jazz Connect is the cheaper of the two, and will help you connect with your business partners even if your'e not in the room with them. The second model, the Jazz Security, is meant to watch over your home while you're out and about, giving you an inside look as to what's going on, making it as if you're there without really being there.
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TalkTorque 2 Robot Will be Happy to Guide You Through a Museum [Video]
Robots. Most engineers and designers bring robots to life to do a certain set of tasks, or interact with humans in a whole new way. The technology therein is usually the main focus of the robot as a whole, but when you've got a robot that looks like the TalkTorque 2, even the fact that it doesn't talk is creepy. The robot's inability to talk is a design choice from those at Japan's Tsukuba University, who believe that the TalkTorque 2 will be able to become a master at human communication without words, and just gestures.
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Fujisoft PALRO Humanoid Shows That Remembers Places and Things on Video
Back in February, Fujisoft's PALRO humanoid got shown off in a nice little video. While the little guy may not be the most advanced of its kind, that's certainly not from a lack of trying. At this point, PALRO can now dance, walk, look around, and even listen to its surroundings. And yes, it can even speak a few words, here and there. But, a few tweaks to the system, and now the little robot can even remember where things are, and even where it has been.
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Gesture-Controlled Robot Arm Watches Video, Reacts in Near Real-Time [Video]
There are several mechanical contraptions out there that use gesture-control to do what they do. But, just as with anything else, there's always room for some sort of improvement. This new mechanical arm, which is controlled strictly by gestures, is impressive in of itself, but also because of the cameras that are used to track the movements of the human operator.
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Willow Garage Announces Expansion of PR2 Robot Community
With all of the ridiculously advanced robots out there, it probably won't be the PR2 robots that start, or finish the war between man and machines. Their duties, which border on the strictly mundane, include that of folding laundry. But that doesn't mean even the smallest robots out there shouldn't have plenty of people making them do those mundane things in the best possible way. Willow Garage has announced that the community focused on these small robots has expanded, and now includes 16 leading research laboratories around the world.
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