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Japan Already Makes Awesome Industrial Robots - Here's What Happens When It Looks...Elsewhere

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.

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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.

Click here to check out these photorealistic architectural renderings>>

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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.

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.

Human-like robots are obviously not real, but neither are these pictures.

Click here to check out these photorealistic architectural renderings>>

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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.

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.

Human-like robots are obviously not real, but neither are these pictures.

Click here to check out these photorealistic architectural renderings>>

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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.