Robotic exoskeleton created by students
This is yet another Japanese robotic exoskeleton, this time designed and created by students of an institute specialized in robotics in Okinawa. Source: Gizmodo.jp.
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Hideo Itokawa and Hayabusa
Hayabusa is the name of the first spacecraft that was able to bring a sample of material from an asteroid to our planet. Itokawa is the name of the asteroid in which the Japanese spacecraft took the samples three years ago before coming back to Earth. “Hayabusa” (隼) means “falcon” in Japanese language and was [...]
Wine could be one of the keys to superconductivity
Yoshihiko Takano, a Japanese physicist that works in a lab in Tsukuba has discovered that alcoholic drinks can help ordinary materials to “turn into” materials that conduct electricity with resistances close to zero. According to Yoshihiko Takano, alcohol could be one of the keys to superconductivity at room temperatures. Maybe some day the Maglev train [...]
Top 10 Best Selling Cell Phones in Japan
In October, for the first time ever in Japan, more smartphones were sold than keitais (“traditional” Japanese cell phones). It seems like the Galapagos Syndrome is starting to hit really hard Japanese cell phone manufacturers, that have to compete more and more harder with smartphones developed in the United States and South Korea. The number [...]
More robots with human-like gestures
When I posted about the Singing Robot developed by AIST Institute in Japan, I got an e-mail from Miguel Michán telling me about the Actroid-F, another robot from the same lab. I have also been reading about the latest developments of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories and it seems like they have ready a [...]
Singing Robot
The latest HRP-4C robot developed by AIST is so realistic that is kind of scary; at times it seems to me that it’s almost capable of crossing the uncanny valley. Notice how realistic the eye blinking is!
Lettuce-producing machine
Dentsu Facility Management Inc has begun selling a machine able to produce around 60 lettuces per day without the need of sunlight. At the moment, they are only available in Japan; the first clients are big restaurant chains because the cost is quite high: 75,000 euro (around 100,000 USD). Will we have some day our [...]
Hiroaki Kitano’s dream
Hiroaki Kitano is known for having created the robotic dog AIBO and for being one of the directors of the Sony Computer Science Lab in Tokyo. In the early 90s, Hiroaki Kitano dreamed about creating biped robots able to perform actions superior to human actions. Ambitious, but at the same time realistic, he started the [...]
