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First human killed by a robot in Japan Kenji Urada (c. 1944 – July 4, 1981) was a Japanese factory worker who was killed by a robot . Urada is often incorrectly reported to be the first person killed by a robot, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but Robert Williams , a worker at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center , had been killed by a robot over two ...
Gakutensoku (學天則, Japanese for "learning from the laws of nature"), the first robot to be built in the East, was created in Osaka in the late 1920s. The robot was designed and manufactured by biologist Makoto Nishimura (1883–1956, father of actor Kō Nishimura).
ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000. It is displayed in the Miraikan museum in Tokyo, Japan.On 8 July 2018, Honda posted the last update of ASIMO on their official page stating that it would be ceasing all development and production of ASIMO robots in order to focus on more practical applications using the technology developed through ASIMO ...
In the mid-20th century, professor Ichiro Kato of Waseda University studied humanoid robots. He initiated the WABOT project in 1967, and in 1972 completed the WABOT-1, the world's first full-scale humanoid intelligent robot. WABOT-1 had two arms, walked on two legs, and saw with two camera eyes. [22] It was thus the first android. Its limb ...
The P3 humanoid robot was revealed by Honda in 1998 as a part of the company's continuing humanoid project. [98] In 1999, Sony introduced the AIBO, a robotic dog capable of interacting with humans; the first models released in Japan sold out in 20 minutes. [99] Honda revealed the most advanced result of their humanoid project in 2000, named ASIMO.
Makoto Nishimura (西村 真琴, Nishimura Makoto, 1883 – 1956) was a Japanese biologist. He is most renowned as the inventor of Gakutensoku , Japan's first functional robot. He was the father of actor Kō Nishimura .
Masahiro Mori (森 政弘, Mori Masahiro, born 1927) is a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work in the fields of robotics and automation, his research achievements in humans' emotional responses to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion. The ASIMO robot was designed by one of Masahiro's students.
Kirobo is Japan's first robot astronaut, developed by University of Tokyo and Tomotaka Takahashi, to accompany Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. Kirobo arrived on the ISS on August 10, 2013 on JAXA 's H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori 4 , an unmanned resupply spacecraft launched August 4, 2013 from ...