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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 ...
Concerned about the idea of robots seen as slaves to humans, particularly as portrayed in the play R.U.R., written by Karel Čapek, Nishimura set out to build a different kind of robot, or as he called it, an "artificial human". The robot he wanted to build would celebrate nature and humanity, and rather than a slave, it would be a friend, and ...
Androids are robots designed to have a very strong resemblance to humans. These include: Actroid, a realistic female robot demonstrated at Expo 2005 in Japan; Hanako, a humanoid robot designed for the training of dental professionals [4] HRP-4C, a humanoid robot with a realistic head and the figure of an average young Japanese female [5]
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 ...
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 ...
The manga and anime Astro Boy, introduced in 1952, with its humanoid robot protagonist, was a key influence on the development of the giant robot genre in Japan. The first anime featuring a giant mecha being piloted by the protagonist from within a cockpit was the Super Robot show Mazinger Z, written by Go Nagai and introduced in 1972. [10]
With Japan's population aging and shrinking, priests are in need of help -- and that's what Pepper is here for. In Japan, robot-for-hire programmed to perform Buddhist funeral rites Skip to main ...
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 .