How Much Human are Humanoid Robots?
Boston Dynamics is an American robot making company. Their creation, Atlas has taken them one step closer to replicating humans.
Boston Dynamics is an American robot making company. Their creation, Atlas has taken them one step closer to replicating humans.
Alpha 2 is the world’s very first humanoid robot who could be friends and new member of the whole family. This robot is intelligent like smartphone but it can walk and talk as well as learn and engage with the human.
Humanoid robots are getting smarter than before. Now, researchers have made PIBOT, a tiny humanoid robot which is now learning to fly real airplanes!
If Amazon plans to deliver packages via drones, how far behind can Google be? Earlier we have seen Google materializing many of its projects like Google Glass, autonomous car or Project Loon. And now the company has said it’s testing a whole fleet of humanoid robots for various purposes.
Researchers at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, is creating a special humanoid robot that will come in the form of a realistic robot boy. This futuristic robot is being called as Roboy and this robot is going to be born early next year.
Recently you might have seen cricket player Kevin Pietersen as well as West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle after winning World Twenty20 dancing in “Gangnam Style (강남 스타일).” But why would human only dance in “Gangnam” style, why not robot? You heard me right. Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) have released a video of their robot dancing in “Gangnam Style”. Do you want to see how the robot dances in “Gangnam Style”?
Last year robot builder Dr. Guero (aka Masahiko Yamaguchi) stunned everyone with his bicycle riding Primer-V2 humanoid robot. And this year he’s back again to astonish us all with another spectacular humanoid robot named Primer-V4. The humanoid robot Primer-V4 can walk on a tightrope! Check the details inside.
A bipedal humanoid robot is being made that can drive tractors, open doors, climb on pipes and find leaks and then seal it or fix a broken pump. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for this type of robots. It’s like the same robot that we have seen in the movie, ‘iRobot.’ These robots are remotely operated.