Running Robot
Still remember the Asimo (Honda) robot?
I’m sure you did because this inventions really shocked the world when it’s launched last few years.
Now, Honda got their new Asimo version and it is more hi-tech than the first one. ASIMO is now capable of performing tasks as a receptionist or information guide automatically in concert with the movement of people.
ASIMO now has the ability to recognize the surrounding environment through visual sensors, floor surface sensor, ultrasonic sensor, and by an IC Tele-interaction Communication Card, developed independently by Honda, held by the person with whom ASIMO will interact.
Head-mounted eye camera and force (kinesthetic) sensor-equipped wrists allow ASIMO to give and receive an object such as a tray in a timely manner, or even to hold the hand of a person and move in sync.
Do you know that Asimo can run at 6km/h (00:35 Dec, 2005)?
For your information, Sony’s also got their own robot named Qrio and the robot can run about 3 kilometres per hour. Now what I wanna tell you is there is a new robot in the robotic world that will shocked the world again but this time it is from Korea!
The robot’s name is Humanoid Robot RX and another strength is that this 60-centimeter-tall machine works via software upgraded from outside network, the features our Japanese rivals do not have.
