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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Japanese robot designed to carry old people

I love this photo of a human-surrogate robot caring for a mannequin.

A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.
The 100-kilogram (220-pound) robot can also distinguish eight different kinds of smells, can tell which direction a voice is coming from and uses powers of sight to follow a human face.

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