Meet KOBIAN the emotional robot
Prof. Atsuo Takanishi's lab at Waseda University has deveopled a new robot called KOBIAN. He (I mean the robot) is very emotional. Just take a look.
Pink Tentacle already has a post on it. To add to that, KOBIAN is a combination of a couple of Prof. Takanishi's previous work - the walking humanoid WABIAN-2R and the emotion expression robot WE-4RII. According to this Nikkei story, robot maker Tmsuk played a part in the development too.
You can see more photos on Robot Watch, which explains that Waseda University has just opened up a new robotics center called the RT Frontier in Tokyo. KOBIAN appeared at the press conference of the new center's opening ceremony. RT Frontier is partially open to the public where you can see and touch some of the robots that are being developed for elderly care and rehab assistance purposes.
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Posted by: Nancy Campbell | June 18, 2010 at 02:10 AM