In Japan, and in some other countries is becoming a popular hobby – learning, build robots. Therefore, the market is constantly appear more new sets of robots. Kyosho Company sells a new version of the humanoid robot Manoi PF01.

Honda announced the development of the first man-machine controlled by thought, applied to a humanoid robot. This device technology has been developed jointly with the Japanese company Shimadzu based in Tokyo and Research Institute ATR.

In recent days, in 2009, Dan Mathias, president of the company Futurebots, which is one of the main suppliers of parts for American robotic companies, presented to the public of its robot ATOM-7XP.

Japanese firm Hitachi introduced a humanoid robot named Emiew, who claimed the company is the most bystroperemeschayuschimsya a robot created to date. Thus the company wants to challenge the robot Asimo (Honda) and Qrio (Sony).

RoboCup is an “autonomous humanoid robots in the year 2050, winning the human World Cup champion team” set a goal of 1997 is a robotic soccer competition was started. In the first Annual Meeting of the Simulation League, League medium, was only one of three small league, and Humanoid Robot League is now 4 feet,

The humanoid robot Rh-0 (and its actualization Rh-1) is full size (1.3 m height, 21 DOF and about 50 kg weight) robot. The robot is equipped with two on-board CPUs and CAN bus communication system. Two batteries are also on-board which allows the 30 minutes of autonomy.

Description: 20 degree-of-freedom humanoid robot comes assembled and ready to use Controlled using a wireless 2.4GHz Playstation-style remote Includes a triple axis accelerometer Rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery pack provides excellent performance No programming necessary, but can be interfaced with a PC for advanced motion editing The Futaba RBT-1 Humanoid Robot Ready to Walk needs only [...]

Honda engineering team started to research and development of the biped humanoid robot, representing a unique approach to the Challenge of Mobility, as follow-up to the existing technologies such as the development of two and four wheeled vehicles and product application of general purpose as power products. The basic concept the Honda engineering team tried [...]

Restructuring Plan requires  Sony has announced the discontinuation of production of Aibo, the famous robot dog that can monitor your home when you’re not here to speak with a vocabulary of more than 1000 words and even for latest developments, to keep a blog! Launched in 1999, the Aibo adventure stops, lack of profitability, like [...]

Most motion planning algorithms assume complete knowledge of the geometry of environment.  Typically obstacles in the environment are assumed to be static or their motion is known as a function of time.  To generate a motion, the algorithm performs a search in the configuration space of the robot, C..  Such a space encapsulates all legal, [...]

Designed to assist humans in their daily ungrateful, Japanese robots will not wait so ordered them aloud to rid the table to get to work: suffice it to think and to act. Researchers from the Japanese car manufacturer Honda, designer of humanoid robot Asimo, developed a technology that allows a human to partially control the [...]

The man-machine interface may be hampered by clichés that convey particular films. Engineers study the perception of robots to optimize the creation of future humanoid. Help engineers to design robots that correspond to the end user. It is the goal pursued by the robotics Bill Smart and literature researcher Lara Bovilsky, both teachers at Washington [...]