TOKYO .- A Japanese company introduced a spectacular event in Tokyo, a robot costume, a sort of cyber external skeleton which provides the movements for the elderly and the physically handicapped.
When the user finally packed the invention, known as Hal, his strength is increased significantly so that its creator, Yoshiyuki Sankai, who has a cree in commercial services to the elderly.
The robot, similar to that of many Japanese manga mills themselves, may also be used in rehabilitation programs for persons with physical disabilities, as they do not need much force to move it. Hal is equipped with several sensors that sense the movements of the body, which help users to perform actions that they could not carry out alone.
The robot suit also facilitates movements like getting up from a chair. (Foto: EFE)
The presentation event, held at the Japanese Ministry of Science, was a demonstration of the amazing capabilities of Hal, manufactured by the company Cyberdyne. A political test
Sankai called the secretary general of the National Institute of Science and Technology, Yoshitsugu Harada, to lift his left arm with sacks of rice as I could. Harada said just the second sack, and that each package weighed ten pounds.
Professor Sankai subsequently placed in the three packages of the robot arm, wearing one of his colleagues, who endured the weight of 30 pounds without any effort.
Japan is one of the countries where the population is aging rapidly, it is estimated that the sector of services for the elderly will live a significant flowering. During the prior explanation of his project, Professor Sankai recognized that the anime (Japanese animation) inspired some stage in the development of robot-suit Hal.
A robot-suit for the elderly and disabled
The Japanese robot starts without clothes in Fashion Week in Tokyo
Tokyo. (EFE) .- The female robot "HRP-4C" exceptional debut today as a model, but without clothes in the Fashion Week in Tokyo, where he presented to the public collections of young designers. Able to speak, smile, surprised and angry, this humanoid Japanese came to the catwalk to the beat of a music futurist and greeted the audience with a ceremonial bow to the Japanese style.
"Welcome to Project Shinmai (Fresh Rice)," said the robot with reference to the designers as it debuted with its Autumn-Winter collections in this eighth edition of Fashion Week and aiming to launch successfully in the Japanese market the "Prêt a Porter". With a height of 1.58 inches, the average women in Japan, and a weight of 43 kilograms, "HRP-4C" made a brief presentation of the parade and the crowd with a flirtatious wink, but never paraded throughout the entire gateway.
Once finished his short speech, the robot turned round with a soft contoneo and headed towards the back of the stage, leaving the details to appreciate some of the female which has been designed, including the buttocks and chest.
Developed by a scientific team from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan, "HRP-4C" move your body aluminum black and silver thanks to thirty engines, which allow you to move your arms and legs, in addition to walking. The robot has a face of beauty typical of Japanese silicone with eight engines, which allow you to gesticulate and to express different emotions, like anger or surprise.
Gave the baton on to the catwalk models of flesh and blood wearing the latest designs for the coming winter of five young designers, two Japanese and three foreigners, who are trying to put a dent in the fashion market.The parades, which show new ideas nearly 40 brands, will take place in the central district of Roppongi until next Saturday.
Japanese robot mannequins can spy on customers
A Japanese company has developed a robot that, when placed in the window of a store, you can spy on who they are and what customers are buying, in addition to taking different attitudes towards them.
"The dummies can be quiet, but will operate as notice the presence of a new customer," said the designer of the robot, Tatsuya Matsui. "The dummy provides an attractive look to increase the desire of consumers to buy," said Matsui, who chairs Flower Robotics Inc. The female robot named 'palette' can imitate the most beautiful women in the world, such as moving them to use a memory that allows you to capture movements imitate the models of the fashion world.
But Palette can be transformed into an industrial spy, since it has a schedule that allows you to guess the age and sex of shoppers and even identify the bags they lead and pass the information to marketing departments.
Matsui developed Palette with the software company SGI Japan Ltd. and intends to begin selling this year at the mannequin in the fashion industry and services. The price has not been defined yet, but SGI wants to be as close as possible to the other costs of conventional dummies, 50 to $ 80, according to Hiroshi Otsuka, who is awaiting a promotion at SGI Japan.
There is an opportunity to change the concept of immobility, which has not changed in over a century, Otsuka said. Some people may remember the American film 'Mannequin', 1987, starring Andrew McCarthy. Elactor plays a department store salesman who falls for a mannequin and she was really an ancient Egyptian woman, the victim of a spell.
"The attention of the customer focus in the face of the wrist," said Matsui, the designer, noting that what we want is that buyers should be fixed in the clothing and jewelry that wears the dummy. Palette is available in two versions, full-length legs but not, or only the upper torso, ready to display jewelry.Matsui said in the future wants to design a Palette with legs, and is accompanied by a man and child mannequins.
Catcher Humanoid Robot
"UFO Catcher" is the name under which they are known in Japan to typical machines of the crane with tongs with which you have to get gifts. The newest machines "UFO Catcher" in Japan is one in which instead of a crane, you have to use is a humanoid robot to try to extract the gifts. If you see the following video, it seems easier than using the damn machines hook normal, almost always when it chooses.
Incredible World Fair in Japan robots
A growing global demand for industrial robots.
A record 199 companies and 66 organizations listed in the Irex 2007 to December 1 of the robot types, from industrial machines to humanoid bipedal. Specialists noted that the large number of exhibitors is due to increasing demand for industrial robots.
Attention is drawn to robots that serve people in areas like aged care, cleaning and monitoring of facilities. Other skills of the apparatus may be viewed by visitors on the last day, when bipedal robots face off in a fight. The organizers of the fair expect some 130,000 visitors this year.
Bipedal robots to the Japanese conquest of the Moon
The Strategic Headquarters for Space Development (Japanese space agency) has informed the Japanese government intends to send a satellite to the biped robot in 2020.
Specific details of the mission, including the budget and the technological demands for compliance, will be determined over the next two years by a special cabinet, responsible for the strategic development of space research. The development of a biped robot is part of the lunar new and ambitious plans for the Asian country to mark a new direction in its policy space. In a second step will be considered the joint exploration of the Moon with the participation of robots and humans.
The Japanese agency also recommended the promotion of research in military satellites, especially an early warning system to detect launches of ballistic missiles and technology to detect and analyze radio waves sent into space.
The progress of China and especially the launch of the satellite to North Korea that the Japanese accused of being in reality a test of long-range missiles, are behind this Japanese initiative.
The project of the robot: the end of the world is very close
One of my work, which I dedicate these months, is a project to be funded by the EU robots. Is classified in priority projects of the European Commission in the field of new technologies and innovation.
Researchers from 5 countries and 8 cities in the EU come together and try to create a kind of advanced autonomous robot-controlled camera and wifi networks. So far, centers in this field are Japan and United States. So I think the EU is trying to create a new center in Europe to compete with both countries and wants to take the lead in this field in the twenty-first century.
I find it interesting in the two following points:
1. The European Union takes this project to a common standard across countries and create a new platform. Each country has its own language for programing and using its protocol. To work with all countries and increase the productivity and competitiveness, it is necessary to unify standards and models. I believe that this project was created for exactly that through the long-term strategic planning.
2. On the strategy of using robot in Japan, it is thought that the robot used for household use. In United States, it is considered that the robot is for military use. This generates a question: in Europe, does the robot to serve? I believe that the robot has a role in the European public space. One of the characteristics of the city is, above all, the use of public space. This character, very strong, the city differs from other continents. Therefore, the identity of the robot in the EU must have a character related to public space.
The videos below are examples of robots invented by United States and Japan. Are the characteristics I mentioned above. But when I saw I had and I am afraid that the end of the world is already very close!