Robotics News

The first appearance of this robot was in the Baka RoboCup 2007 competition. This robot may look like trash can with four crab-like legs which allow the robot to move around the room. This funny robot named as Push-kun or Mr. Push in English. Funny Mr. Push Robot can tell jokes to make audience laugh. Funny Mr. Push Robot can also play drum and this robot can perform action like throwing dice and catch the dice with its trash can body. Funny Mr. Push Robot’s design looks like one of the famous US comic character with big printed-star on its chest. The Funny Mr. Push Robot was created by Osaka-based Robot Force in order to create robot that could triger people to laugh when they interact or watch it.

This is the newest robotic invention from the land of robotic Japan. It seems that tsunami and earthquake cannot stop Japanese from their creativity in creating such innovation. It was shown up in the opening of Digital Content Expo which was placed at Tokyo. This artificial arms was able to make clapping sounds just like human makes such sounds with their palms of the hands. The developer called this artificial clapping hands robot as Ondz. The artificial clapping hands robot was made of skin-like material with aluminum as its bone. Ondz was designed by Masato Takahashi, he used his own hands to make the mold.

It seems that this robot is a versatile robot developed by Mitsubisi Heavy Industries, this robot not only shown up in the ancient Osaka festival as greeting robot but also shown up as Japanese actor in a stage performance at Osaka University. The Wakamaru robot’s appearance in the stage claimed to be the first human-robot stage theater performance in Japan. Oriza Hirata, the playwriter, said that this play performance tells story about human and technology relationship. The performance entitled Hataraku Watashi or I, Worker in English plays a young couple that own two housekeeping robots. The problem started when one from the two housekeeping robots loss its motivation to work.

In 2009 a classic Manga story Tetsujin 28 has been adapted for a stage performence at Tokyo and Osaka. In this performance, Mamoru Oshii as the director included a 20 feet tall or appoximately six meters tall robot Tetsujin 28 into the stage. It was the replica of super robot in those Manga story, Tetsujin 28. This replica of giant 500kg robot was added into the stage and able to stand on its own foot. Mamoru Oshii the director used to direct such anime story. For example he was well known after directing anime story like Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Police Patlabor, and he was also well known for directing Avalon and other live-action projects.

We have know there is robot that capable of playing Indonesian traditional music instrument called Gamelatron. Here we have another robot playing music instrument named Shimon. Shimon is robot that capable of playing marimba. Shimon Robot Playing Music has a remarkable ability where this robot not only could play pre-programmed music but also actively able listen to other musicians and play together. The Shimon Robot Playing Music was built by Guy Hoffman from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He gave Shimon Robot Playing Music remarkable ability to respond to human musician. It is able to match the beat, sync, and themes of human musician.

Instead of playing chess with computer Ebrahim Jahandar now is able to play chess directly and phsically with his own chess playing robot. Yes, Ebrahim Jahandar was developed a robot that is able of playing chess with human. This chess playing robot given ability to recognize its opponent movements and remarkably capable of making decision about the next move and then picking up pieces to move them. In order of enabling the robot to move the pawn Ebrahim Jahandar used a movable hook. Moreover he used a special board with magnetic sensor and small magnets at the bottom of each pawn. These way the chess playing robot could track every movement of pawns.

This is what happen if robot was born in the land of robotic of Japan, they were included into traditional event. As we know Japan is a powerful country in a matter of robotic but they originaly still hold well their culture. Wakamaru is a modern high-tech android robot designed by Mitsubishi Heavy industries. Mitsubishi designed this robot for domestic and office work purpose. In 2009 this Modern Wakamaru Robot was included into one of the most famous festival in Japan. Modern Wakamaru Robot took place as participant in the Osaka Tenjin Festival. The Osaka Tenjin Festival is Japanese old festival that held at streets and rivers of Osaka every July.

South Korea was planning to build a magnificent Disneyland for robot named Robot Land. For the operation plan this South Korean Robot Land need at least 785.5 billion of KRW. As reported by Gizmodo $230 million of budget has been secured. This fantasy land of South Korean Robot Land features several attractions like Robot Water Park, Robot Battle Stadium, Robot Flower Island, Robot Museum, etc. The South Korean Robot Land will be built in Masan, South East Coast area of South Korean. This fantasy land is not the first robotic fantasy land that was built in South Korean. In Incheon City a similar robotic fantasy land has been built first.

It might shape like an outer space living creature but it has a gently sense of companying your lonely pet when you where not home. The idea begins from the lonely pet that lives with unmarried or single people where they use food dispenser to keep their pet life but leave their pet lonely while they go abroad. The alien pet care robot will not only become a great companion for your pet but also great baby sitter. This robot is connected to the Internet to allow pet owner monitors their lonely pet while they go abroad. It has cameras and microphones built inside the robot. The built-in cameras on the alien pet care robot are able to detect and recognize object while microphones could record sounds.

Leeds University together with the Supreme Council of Antiques in Egypt and international engineers’ team planned to construct robot that used to help researchers unlock the mystery inside the chamber inside the Great Pyramid of Giza which named as Djedi project. It would be a tiny remote controlled robot that equipped with mini ultrasonic device and drill to explore two inaccessible tunnels leading to the secret chamber. The team hoped that this tiny tunnel accessing robot is capable of drilling trough blocked door carefully to see what hidden behind the door. Why it should be carefully because this building was an old ancient that built in the end of 2560BC.