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Humanoid Robot Does Gymnastics

Boston Dynamics is a company that likes its robots to walk around, either on two legs or four.

Its four-leggers trot around sort of like headless critters that can carry things, and the two-leggers are now doing amazing athletic movements. The most recent flips and hops are quite impressive— check out the video of […]

September 27th, 2019 | Category: humanoid robots | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Robot Installs Drywall

The Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (AIST), a Japanese research facility based in Tokyo, has put out a video that’s receiving a lot of attention on the internet:

The Japanese are particularly positive toward automation generally, because of their lack of population growth (no immigration!) and hence fewer worker humans coming online in […]

October 2nd, 2018 | Category: humanoid robots | Tags: , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Japan Uses Robots to Make Up for Decreasing Population

Japan is an interesting place in that it hasn’t allowed immigration and so has a monoculture. It seems like that lack of diversity allows them to experiment in the comfort of their own tribe.

The Japanese take on robots is unique: they appreciate human-like machines that imitate our movements and speech very well. Which may […]

July 31st, 2017 | Category: humanoid robots | | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

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