REEM-B, New Humanoid Robot Announced

Davide writes "There is a quite an interesting human size robot that comes from UAE, REEM-A. It has some interesting skills as dynamic walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition. Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype, REEM-B, will be presented in February 2008. The second prototype has many improvements: a fingered hand with 12 motors, the ability to go up and down stairs, additional force sensors on the arms, ultrasonic range finders to avoid obstacles and a completely new look." Or, if you prefer something a bit cheaper, you could go with the $30 DIY Android.

Comments

Re:Pick-up decoy?

[myrdos2]

If the guy is from slashdot, I'd estimate he'd figure it out after about three years of marriage.

!Dynamic walking

[coldfarnorth]

I'm a bastard for nit-picking, but that doesn't look like dynamic walking.

To be precise, a robot walks dynamically if its center of gravity extends beyond the boundaries of its support polygon while walking. Take a look at the robot I work on to see dynamic walking. The difference lies in what happens if all the joints suddenly locked up completely while walking. A robot that actually walks dynamically would almost certainly fall over. Asimo and this robot would not. This appears to be the static or quasi-static situation described in the second link.