This article is about a man named Tomoaki Kasuga who started a robotics company, Speecys, dedicated to building a humanoid-like robot. They succeeded in this spectacularly. Their new robot has a much greater range of freedom than other robots of its kind. It can even lean backward and forward at the hips. These motions allow the robot to mimic human behavior much more closely than was previously possible. The feet of the robot are also much larger and wider than that of other models, giving it a greater sense of balance and stability. The robot is also wireless and can receive signals from anywhere as long as it has internet connection. Finally the robot has a camera and led lights built into it. This robot is a great accomplishment in the world of robotics. It shows the progress people are making in developing an improving on the robots they build. However as great a development and achievement this robot is, it has some shortcomings. The robot has a speaker in it, but it doesn’t have a microphone, making it able to speak but leaving it deaf to the world. Even objects such as this phone have vocal recognition programs in it, such as bluetooth. If I had built this robot, I would have built it not only to respond to programmed commands, but to respond to the world around it as well. I would have tried to include sensors to give it an “awareness” of the world around it. Also the company only has one function for the robot- they are considering selling it for video games. It would have been better if they had designed the robot to be applied so some sort of other function.
http://www.botmag.com/articles/speecys.shtml
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