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HRP-4C
Posted on March 18th, 2009 No comments
The HRP-4C is a humanoid robot created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. It is capable of voice recognition and speech synthesis.
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Aiko
Posted on February 25th, 2009 No commentsProject Aiko is Canada’s first functional female android and was developed by Le Trung, a chemist graduate from York University. The project is also headed by Le Trung, who has designed the software and the hardware for the android.
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KITT
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsKITT is the short name of a fictional character on the adventure TV series Knight Rider. KITT is an artificial intelligence electronic computer installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robot in the form of a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
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Electro/Thinko
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsElektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1938. He also appeared as “Thinko”, in a 1960 film, Sex Kittens Go to College.
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ASIMO
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsASIMO is a humanoid robot created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.
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