MABEL Bipedal Robot with Knees that Run Like Human

Like real human runner, this bipedal robot with knees called as MABEL has agility to run like human. This running robot is project at University of Michigan’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that has a goal to create exoskeletons that enable wheelchair-bound people to walk again or that give rescuers super-human abilities, and [...]

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Funny Mr. Push Robot from Osaka, Japan

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.

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Artificial Clapping Hands Robot Unveiled in Japan

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.

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Acting Actor Robot Wakamaru Perform on Stage

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.

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Tetsujin 28 from Mitsuteru Yokohama Anime in a Stage Performance

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.

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