Pebbles, designed by Telbotics, is designed for children that are too ill to attend school. From bed, a child uses a joystick to swivel the robots head and raise its “hand” in response to the teacher and other students. Already, the system is in place in major hospitals and classrooms around the country.
No word yet, if the system could be modded to help you cheat :P
Move over Aibo, The CosmoBot by Anthrotronix “walks” on two feet and responds to remote control, voice commands, and body movements (with body sensors). Its got the heart of a PocketPC OS, and Linux to control its various systems.
It is designed to help children with disabilities explore and interact with their environment, while having fun. It’s not a toy, its a learning instrument.
Designed for nurses in Japan, the Power Assist uses its compressed air lifting action to transfer patients from one bed to another. The suit, which calculates how much air to release based on sensors taped to the wearers muscles, has many other applications too, like the heavy-lifting tasks performed by soldiers, and construction workers.
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Alex HUBO, built by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, is the first-ever walking robot with an expressive face. Korean research adapted a human-like robotic head of Albert Einstein to the body of the HUBO. It has advanced motion and emotions and capable of fluid movement, excellent balance, as believable facial expressions.
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The Robonaut is a prototype humanoid robotic system designed by the Robotic Systems Technology Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Originally designed to assist crew during spacewalks, its mechanical arms and hands are capable of a range of actions are designed for outerspace environments. It’s engineered is to mimic the strength and agility of a human, so powerful tools such as a bolt driver are not much more of a problem then operating a pair of tweezers.
It is completely wirelessly controlled by a single engineer, outfitted with motion sensing gloves, a motion sensing headset as well as foot controls to drive the robot.
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