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Housework may become a lot easier with maid robot

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:36:40 +0000

If you are grumbling about having to do some domestic tasks, it is possible you may be thinking about Japan and this exceptionally unfair fact that home-help robot are part and parcel of almost every home there.

Actually, it is not so, but soon it may become reality at least Tokyo University’ recent research robot seems to suggest that.

This mechanical maid has been named ‘AR’ and it has been developed by carmaker Toyota and the college’s Information and Robot Technology and Research Initiative.

This Robot maid has the ability to recognize laundry and it doesn’t end here as it can pick it and up take to a washing machine as well. Usually, traditional robots are in trouble when they have to get any such thing as is not hard and of a regular shape.

Similarly, it can also move furniture out of the way when it is needed to use a brush to sweep floor.

Though it is not able to perform many other tasks that are required to run a household, it seems to suggest that it’s something more than just domestic robots which beetle vacuum cleaners.

Inspiring humble bee: Nissan uncovers its prototype robot car

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:23:57 +0000

Well, you may have flipped through the headlines that show Nissan has uncovered a prototype robot car drawing inspiration from the humble bee.

The new robot car ( named as BR23C) is a two-wheeled machine that has been developed together with Tokyo University as a part of the project that is being made for improving road safety and preventing accidents overall.

The bee inspiration of the car comes in the form of sensors that look for the coming objects and make the car move away in somewhat similar way a bee does in flight to avoid all the obstacles.

With the help of a laser rangefinder, this BR23C can scan a 180-degree field in front area and it is expected that there would be a rear sensor to offer total coverage. With its compound eyes, a typical bee can manage to sweep 300 degrees

However, the BR23C is not going to be into production yet and it’s on a prototype platform. But the company says that it will utilize the technology in cars like Pivo 2 that can move and quickly react to changing conditions.