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Robot Award 2006

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) created the annual Robot Award to boost the Japanese robotics industry. The winner of the inaugurating year of 2006 was the cleaning robot developed by Fuji Heavy Industries (maker of the Subaru cars). The robot that cleans the floors of high-rise buildings is able to take the elevator on its own to move around multiple floors. It's contribution for opening up a new market for robots and for cutting cost for the building owners were the reasons to be chosen from 151 other robots. 

Help with your Blog

Electronics company NEC Corp. announced that it has developed a robot that can help you create your blog. NEC integrated voice recognition technology with its PaPeRo so that the user can talk to the robot instead of typing the text into his/her blog. PaPeRo will also choose pictures, video and music from an online multimedia library that will match the content of your blog post.

Robotic Music Player

ZMP Inc. says that it has started shipping within Japan its robotic music player miuro. The company announced the iPod dockable music player last summer and it has gotten a lot of press in Japan since then. Using robotic technology, miuro can follow you around the house. According to a blog written by ZMP's CEO, the company wants to seriously start marketing it in the U.S. and Europe soon.