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Sabanci University Robot Research Laboratory Platform or SURALP was demonstrated by the researches in Sabanci University. This was the first humanoid robot ever created in Turkey. Developed since 2002 this humanoid robot cost about 1 million dollars. This robot gave a dance performance for the debut. SURALP also demonstrated throwing a can to the trash and passing a can to engineer. This humanoid robot project had four years in planning and co…
Paris-based Aldrebaran Robotics is trying to develop humanoid robot that later will be used to assist elderly and disable people. This robot named Romeo, is a French-adult-sized humanoid robot. This robot projected to be finished and unveiled in March this year. Romeo stands in 140cm tall and weights 40kg. Romeo is capable to have a good walk inside house with the support of 37 degrees of freedom. Romeo will help elderly or disable people in k…
As CHARLI took its first step he became the first United States full size humanoid robot. This robot was built by the students in RoMeLa. It stood in 5 foot tall and proved to the previous humanoid robots that he had the complete mechanical and technical design. RoMeLa had reached its goal in improving the humanoid robot capabilities and understanding the bipedal locomotion. The previous humanoid robots in United States are MIT’s Cog, NASA’s R…
Meka Robotics, Luis Sentis , and Roland Philippsen was designed a sociable humanoid head for the Dreamer. The Dreamer is a female humanoid robot that has references to female character of Comic characters. This female character humanoid robot is the project of Meka and the HCR Laboratory. The researches goal in created this head is to bring the sense of sociability from this robot. The eyes of this robot can move, that creates the natural sig…
id is a new term for you as well as it is for me. What I did understand from the source article telenoid is a new communication media. This communication media works by representing and transferring humanlike presence using a humanoid robot. In past, Teleoperated android robots like Geminoid HI-1 that was developed by ATR and Geminoid F that was developed by Osaka University and ATR have appearances just like actual persons. These human-like appe…
Mahru III is a new biped humanoid robot that was unveiled by the Samsung and Korean Institute of Science and Technology in 2007. Mahru stands in 150cm tall and weights 62kg. It was said that this robot is made in order to create a robot that human can use to help their daily life but what make it special is that this robot is connected to the wireless network environment. It can be said that Mahru III is a platform robot for future household r…
After Cheetah one of the newest two robot projects that developed by Boston Dynamics as funded by DARPA here we will discuss about ATLAS. ATLAS is the other newest military robot that funded by DARPA and developed by Boston Dynamics. ATLAS is a humanoid robot with two arms and two legs and a torso. This robot will be developed to have ability like human being that able to climb and manuever in terrain environment. This robot will be developed to…
l, high-spec components that were suitable for robots about 50cm tall. And finally Mighty introduced to the world. The first prototype completes in 2003, this is the one that we called Mighty. The distinctive features on this humanoid robot are that the joint structure that built-in this robot. Compare to other humanoid robot Mighty has a different shoulder axis with 45 degree of angle; this axis gives Mighty natural motion when the arms are bein…
It was reported by the Iran government daily Sunday that a humanoid robot has been unveiled in Iran. This robot named Souren-2 and this robot was Iran first humanoid robot. Souren name came from an ancient Persian warrior. This warrior named robot stands in 1,45m and weights 45kg was shown up to the public in a ceremony that was being attended by their president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was said that this robot was able to walk and has the e…
This humanoid robot was developed by Marc Ziegler and Lijin Aryananda. Marc Ziegler and Lijin Aryananda developed this robot in ai lab at Department of Informatics in University of Zurich. In the official site it said that there will be soon for the next information on this robot. But from the pictures it seems that they developed this robot in addition to compare the swimming of human and robot. From the experiment revealed that human are restr…
Loki name was taken from the Norse god of Mischief. Loki was built by soft engineer David Shinsel. He used the software from Seeker and Mr. Roboto in building Loki. This software included remote control and diagnostics over WiFi, vision processing, speech recognition, indoor path finding, basic Artificial Intelligence, and general refinement of the architecture. In handling all the intelligence Loki used an onboard laptop running Windows XP.
An9-PR is a security robot made by Sohgo Security Services Co Ltd, a Japanese security company. An9-PR stands in 160cm tall and weights 200kg and equipped with 19″ touch screen LCD panel and two 12″ LCD on its back. An9-PR will be used in crowded area like shopping mall or public facilities. An9-PR will provide information to people with facilities guide, advertisement, or shopping information. Equipped with cameras and sensors this robot is able to recognize and approach people’s face. To get the service from this robot someone should pay about $109.587. An9-PR moves with the help of four tires to move around in crowded place.
Since September, ‘a very special student’ follows in the history, geography, and English, French lessons class. While for other, Russian and mathematics need a teacher’s visits. This special student is a plastic robot student, which replaces Stephan to attend a lesson at Moscow’s school number 166 because of the real Stephan suffers from Leukemia for two years. His immune system is too fragile to allow him to leave home. Stephan just sits in front of a computer at his home to control the plastic robot student’s movements.
The iRobot’s robot used for critical mission, iRobot 710 Warriors. This robot can be used for surveillance, clear the route, and disposal bomb. Warriors can carry heavy payload, this robot is a powerful robot. Performing works in terrain and rough places. This strong and powerful robot can bring 150 pounds of weight and can be used both outdoor and indoor.
-37B is American’s first robotic space plane that have been launched. This miniature-like of space shuttle have long track of history in development until it was launched in 2010. NASA was the first place where this space robot developed in 90s, secondly DARPA took NASA place and then found home at US Air Force and now under the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office’s wings. This space robot equipped with payload and hold a couple of satellites. This space robot projected to go on 270 days of mission. This self destruct equipped space robot would be on autonomous mode after retracting its solar array and closing payload doors.
Here is one from few unique robotic applications in life where people use robot in musical orchestra. It said to be world’s first and only fully robotic gamelan orchestra. Gamelan is a set traditional music instrument from Indonesia; specifically it is Balinese and Javanese traditional music instruments. As it was written in its site that there is no impossibility that human could take advantage of robotic in everyday aspect of life including in music. This robotic orchestra is a great transformation that tells joyful of music. This Gamelatron Robotic Orchestra is a collaboration project of The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) and Zemi17: A. Taylor Kuffner.
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