Tag Archives: humanoid

A Night Out with the Willow Garage Robots – New Info From the Press Dinner

When a robot asks you out on a date, say yes. Wednesday night, Willow Garage hosted a small press dinner [...]

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DLR Robot Hand is Tough Enough to Withstand a Hammer (video)

Most experimental robot hands are delicate fragile instruments of advanced research. In other words, they’re wimps. Not so for the [...]

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Must-See Videos of Festo’s Animal Robots

Robots are ripping off nature! …Good idea. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made some of the [...]

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Whoa! HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Walks, Moves Just Like A Real Human

Kawada and AIST continue to promote their newest bipedal robot, the HRP-4, with clips of its smooth motions and graceful [...]

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GM and NASA Create Robonaut and Mounds of Hype

The press seems to love the new robonaut from GM and NASA, but is it really all it is hyped [...]

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From Petman to Dexter, Bipedal Humanoid Robots Come of Age

Whoa!  I am totally blown away by the just released video of Boston Dynamics’ Petman bipedal humanoid robot (check it [...]

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Motoman Robot Does It All in Videos

Teach a robot to fish and it will fish forever. Give a robot humanoid arms and it will build the [...]

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Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr

Props to the guys over at smart-machines for digging up an awesome video (see below) of the Toyota humanoid robot [...]

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The Justin Humanoid Robot

Today we introduce the robot Justin, the latest example of the relentless pace of robot advancement.  The Justin robot is [...]

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