life-like talking characters

The animated and talking characters can use as marketing tool to convey messages to people in retail site. Retailers using this character to talk about there products, tell the people specials they might be having.Instead of hiring humans to promote the products you are selling, you can have this talking character for substitution to act like a real human.Any type of characteristics are available.

Just imagine if you meet this in front door of five star hotel to welcome you as a guest.

The animated and talking characters can use as marketing tool to convey messages to people in retail site. Retailers using this character to talk about there products, tell the people specials they might be having.Instead of hiring humans to promote the products you are selling you can have this talking character for substitution to act like a real human.

Just imagine if you meet this in front door of five star hotel to welcome you as a guest.

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Android acquires nonverbal communication skills

As Japan’s population continues to age and shrink, more and more people are looking at robots as a way to improve productivity and support the nation’s changing lifestyles. With human-robot interactions on the rise, and with the recognition that much of human communication is nonverbal, researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have developed an autonomous humanoid robot they say can recognize and use body language.

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Brian the Brain

This is a great idea if you’ve got kids who get bored doing their homework. It’s also a great parent aide (particularly if you get asked those tricky questions like “how high is the sky?” or “when was Cleopatra born?”, or “how do you spell ‘prestidigitation’?”) As Brian has stored within his animatronic brain The Concise Encyclopedia from Britannica®, a dictionary and also a world history timeline, you should be able to ask him virtually anything and he should know.

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Secret of robots’ outstanding performance

ROBOTIS(www.robotis.com) is the very developer of its actuators ‘Dynamixel’ that 28 humanoid robot teams participating in ‘RoboCup 2007’ adopted.



Dynamixel is a high-performance actuator controlled by digital packet communication. It has unique ID controlled by Packet communication on a bus. It supports network of TTL, RS 485, and CAN, etc. depending on model. The Dynamixel can read current position of it or speed as well as various information such as internal temperature, supply voltage, target position.



Featuring simple connection structure, it gives you feedback when internal temperature, torque, supply voltage escapes from appointed range. Also in such emergency situation, it flashes LED.

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The Bear Robot

Rescuing Soldiers on the Battlefield and Helping the Infirm at Home

One of the most dangerous jobs in a combat situation is the extraction and evacuation of a wounded soldier while still under fire. This is especially true in the current war against terrorism, which features enemies that are not likely to respect the noncombatant status of medics.

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i have to think ,this would lessen ,and collaborate soldier's responsibility,facilitate as well.

Asahi Robocco BeerBot

The Asahi Robocco BeerBot opens the cans automatically of your favorite brew then pours you in tall mug of the frosty stuff.


The robot can hold up to sixpack of standard cans of beer in its refrigerating belly.
At the press of a button, a can will be lifted, opened and dispenses them into the mug when ready for a drink.

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CB2 Japanese Robot Child

The Japan Science and Technology Agency recently unveiled their Child-Robot with Biometric Body, or CB2 for short. Designed to mimic a one to two year-old toddler, it senses the environment through optical, auditory, and 200 tactile sensors. Then, the childbot can react, making facial expressions complete with blinking.

51 actuators powered by air assure smooth movements, though the robot can only stand with assistance. Not only does this limit of movement give users the complete child experience, it also prevents Asimo incidents on the stairs.

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Humanoids Are Faster and More Agile than Ever


Japanese firms continue to set the pace in the development of multifunctional, interactive robots. The work to improve ASIMO, the world's most advanced autonomous bipedal humanoid robot, continues at Honda Motor Co. The newest model, released in December 2005, boasts a high level of communication skills and suggests that it may not be long before there are real robots similar to fictional robot heroes like Astro Boy and C-3PO of the Star Wars films.

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