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In Japan, popular robots include humanoid entertainment robots, androids, animal robots, social robots, guard robots, and more. Each type has a variety of characteristics. Japan employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In the next 15 years, it is estimated that the number will jump to over one million.
Honda began developing humanoid robots in the 1980s with the goal of making a walking robot, including several prototypes that preceded ASIMO. E0 was the first bipedal model produced as part of the Honda E series, which was an early experimental line of self-regulating walking robots with wireless movements created between 1986 and 1993.
PHOTO: A robot face with living skin anchored to it is seen in a Tokyo laboratory, where scientists have been able to make it smile, in a breakthrough in biohybrid robot technology.
The Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP) is a project for development of general domestic helper robots, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), spearheaded by Kawada Industries and supported by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Kawasaki Heavy ...
Valkyrie, a humanoid robot, [1] from NASA. A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head ...
Actroid is a type of android (humanoid robot) with strong visual human-likeness developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company Ltd. (the animatronics division of Sanrio). It was first unveiled at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. Several different versions of the product have been produced since then.
Pepper, a humanoid, waves while leading a group of senior citizens in exercises. ... About 5,000 are in use globally, including 3,000 in Japan. But Paro, like most robots, is expensive: 400,000 ...
A nursing home in Natori Japan is incorporating revolutionary technology as part of their patient care. Humanoid robots help improve nursing home patient's quality of life Skip to main content