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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 ...
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 ...
HuroSot – humanoid robots up to 150 cm high and 30 kg in weight. KhperaSot – cylindrical autonomous robots with onboard vision systems. Mirosot – robots up to 75mm cube. 3, 5, 7 or 11 a-side. NaroSot – 4c square robots up to 5.5 cm high. Quadrosot – four-legged robots. SimuroSot – PC-based simulation over both 5-a-side and 11-a-side.
The term "robot" was first used in a play published by the Czech Karel Čapek in 1920. R.U.R. ( Rossum's Universal Robots ) was a satire, robots were manufactured biological beings that performed all unpleasant manual labor. [ 50 ]
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.
Robotic competitions have been organized since the 1970s and 1980s. In 1979 a Micromouse competition was organized by the IEEE as shown in the Spectrum magazine. [2]Although it is hard to pinpoint the first robotic competition, two events are well known for their longevity: the All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament, of Robot-Sumo in Japan, and the Trinity College International Fire Fighting Robot ...
NimbRo-OP2X [1] Humanoid Soccer Robot at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal. A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of soccer. The main organised competitions are RoboCup or FIRA tournaments played each year. The RoboCup contest currently has a number of soccer leagues:
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.