Japan Already Makes Awesome Industrial Robots - Here's What Happens When It Looks...Elsewhere
This robot is called "Fukitorimushi," or "Wipe-Up Bug." It looks like an articulated pillow and moves in a squirmy motion across your floor to clean it with a polyester fiber pad.
This is the Mocoro, another cleaning robot that rolls across your floor like a neon tumbleweed for 15 minutes at a time. It's for putting an end to dust bunnies under the couch.
Meet the Yume Neko Smile cat robot by Sega. It's a rather scary, unnatural take on a cat.
The Janken Robot does one thing, but it does it very well. It can beat any human competitor at paper-scissor-rock. It's vision system can identify the sign you'll throw before you throw it, then it positions its hand into a winning sign in one millisecond.
The Janken Robot does one thing, but it does it very well. It can beat any human competitor at paper-scissor-rock. Its vision system can identify the sign you'll throw before you throw it, then it positions its hand into a winning sign in 1 millisecond.
This swine flu robot displays symptoms (coughing, sweating, heavy breathing) of the H1N1 virus and is used to help train doctors in diagnosing the disease.
This is the Repliee R-1 robot, modeled after a 5-year-old Japanese girl and a rather glaring example of how unsettling the uncanny valley can be.
Meet "Child with Biometric Body," or CB2. It's supposedly as intelligent as a toddler — it can stand up, walk on its own, and respond to touch and voice.
That's Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University on the television screen. He build "Geminoid" to be a replica of himself. It even has his own real hair on its head.
RI-MAN is a robot for elder care, designed specifically for lifting and carrying people out of bed.
This robotic female head is called "Kaori-chan," and is designed to tell you if you have bad breath. If that seems like a silly idea, that's because it is — the creator wanted to make lighthearted robots to make people smile after the 2011 earthquake in eastern Japan.
Here's a sex robot that makes use of an *ahem* manipulator to provide physical feedback to the virtual scene unfolding in the Oculus Rift VR headset.
Here's a sex robot that makes use of an ahem manipulator to provide physical feedback to the virtual scene unfolding in the Oculus Rift VR headset.
Human-like robots are obviously not real, but neither are these pictures.
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