After Pepper, its ASRA C1Humanoid Robot for SoftBank
SoftBank, a giant in Japanese Telecom has recently unveiled its emotion reading robot called Pepper. After this robot, SoftBank revealed another humanoid robot named ASRA C1 developed by Asratec. It is designed to interact safely with people. Specifications: ASRA C1 is a bipedal humanoid robot having the following specs: It weighs around 13.5 kg (battery included) and 1.2 meters high It has 35 degrees of freedom with two legs and...
KOBIAN – Humanoid Comedian Robot
The above video brings you the funny moments of KOBIAN Comedy Robot. This robot was developed by Japanese Researchers at the Waseda University, and it was recently presented in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014. The research team led by Prof. Atsuo Takanishi categorized comedy into three different methods: Funny Behaviours like equivoque, blue jokes, induced laugh, overblown, and sympathetic story...
HitchBot – The Wikipedia-Reading Robot
HitchBot, a free-spirited robot is ready to explore Canada to meet new friends on the go. It is developed at Port Credit, Ontario by Dr. David Smith of McMaster University and Dr. Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University. It is the successor of KulturBot, which is made to travel from one art gallery to other for tweeting artwork photos and venues. The developers are going to put their robot on the side of the road from Halifax to Victoria,...
Pepper Robot can be your Emotional Companion
Will anyone believe that a robot can understand your feelings and act upon it? It might be a false statement a week before, but now it has become true with Aldebaran’s new Pepper Robot. This robot is not designed to make your house or office works rather than that it speaks, reads your emotions, moves, and lives autonomously. The company proudly says that Pepper robot is designed to live with humans. Pepper robot is capable of...
Be Ready to Customize Intel’s 3D Printed Jimmy Robot
Jimmy, a 3D printed research robot is the idea of Intel futurist Brain David Johnson and executed with the teamwork of researchers at the University of Southern California, Trossen Robotics, and Olin College. Jimmy was revealed last week by Intel at the Code Conference in California. It is named as 21st Century Robot Project, which started with an objective to give everyone an opportunity to build and customize their own robot. Jimmy...
Arduino Simplicity Gaining Roots Through Arduino Yun
Arduino Yun is actually a microcontroller board based on Atmega 32u4 and AtherosAR9331. Atheros is a processor which could support Linux distribution. Features of Arduino Yun Built in Ethernet and Wifi Support USB-A Port Micro SD card slot 20 digital Input and Output pins (of which 7 can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analog inputs) 16 MHz crystal oscillator Micro USB- connection ICSP Header 3 reset buttons We opt for Arduino Yun...
