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Humanoid Robot HR-2

Posted by timothy on from the bip-bip-bip-bork-bork-bip dept.

Denix writes "The HR-2 humanoid robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden. It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak. The website also contains a movie (35.5 MB) of the HR-2 in action."

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  2. Awesome! by MindNumbingOblivion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Now I know where to go to get my armies of mechanical death.

    ::CACKLE CACKLE LIGHTNING CACKLE BRRZZT COUGH COUGH::

    In seriousness, is there a reason for trying to build a bipedal, humanoid, robot? I mean, this looks cool and all, but what are the advantages (or conversely, disadvantages) to such a design (IANSC [I Am Not Susan Calvin])?

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    1. Re:Awesome! by JanneM · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Real progress will be made only after people stop trying to build a human from machine parts and focus more on usefull applications.

      Hard to build useful applications before you know how to make it walk safely, consistently and energy efficiently on at least a reasonable subset of human-constructed terrain types.

      I'm always astounded by all the backseat drivers of the world who always know so much better what people should do, without ever feeling the need to do it themselves. Since you want useful applications, go to it. Nothing is stopping you. If you're right that applications is the best focus, you'll undoubtedly eclipse these pitiful, wasteful efforts.

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  3. When can we buy it? by j79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awww...the thing is so freakin' cute!

    Of course, if it was 6ft tall, I'd be saying something along the lines of, "I for one welcome our new robot overlords..."

  4. I dunno.. by badfrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't look like it has the weight distribution to fetch me a beer.

  5. Forget the robot.... by d474 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was more impressed with that hot European chick "playing" with the robot. He's all "show me your move", she moves the object up and down, and then little robot starts a movement closly resembleing masturbation. OMG LOL!!! It was even funnier because that girl is so cute....

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  6. Humanoid vs task-specific robots by Arpie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure, as a geek I love the idea of humanoid robots, but in practice how useful can they be?

    Aren't in most situations robots designed specifically for one task (or a small group of tasks) better?

    My Roomba robot vacuum broke a few weeks ago and it took 2-3 weeks to be replaced. If that same robot also washed my clothes, did my dishes and cooked my food, I'd have been in bad shape.

    [end serious post]

    [start joke]
    Come to think of it though, I'd definetly spend serious money on a robot that vacuums the floor, washes clothes, does the dishes and cooks... and does not demand attention, new clothes, a wedding... Heck, let's go make these humanoid robots already! And, of course, they'll need some specific, er... anatomic, parts and capabilites. And they absolutely must have an off and mute switches.

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  7. Typical slashdotter! by piecewise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geez. What ROBOT is cute?? What about the woman in the video! SHE'S cute! Get your act together.

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  8. Looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1 by thzinc · · Score: 5, Informative

    This looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1 mentioned a while ago here, but a bit more advanced. Looks like some pretty nice enhancements, though, I do agree with a lot of other /.'ers in that I would like more information.

  9. mini Sarah Connor by DanThe1Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    All we need now is a mini-Sarah Connor to battle it.