Posts Tagged Japan

  • i-Fairy Officiates A Japanese Wedding i-Fairy Officiates A Japanese Wedding

    In May, a couple in Japan was wed by a robot priest named "i-Fairy". i-Fairy was first seen at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas early this year. According to the company's representative, the robot can be “programmed with the user’s voice and accompanying body gestures that give the I-FAIRY a mo...

  • Robocup2010: Pre-Finals Robocup2010: Pre-Finals

    Robocup 2010 willl be held in Singapore in June. But pre-qualification finals are on-going everywhere early on this year to screen hundreds of robot participants. In the latest “RoboCup Japan Open 2010″, we saw several enthusiastic robot owners all wanting to win a place for the finals. ...

  • Japan Exposed Their Supermodel Robot HRP-4C Japan Exposed Their Supermodel Robot HRP-4C

    Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology brought to the public their latest supermodel robot, HRP-4C. HRP-4C may be not as graceful as Cindy Crawford but this talking and walking girlbot can do the catwalk with some other models. HRP-4C which cost about $2 ...

  • Saya, Japan's First Robot Teacher Saya, Japan’s First Robot Teacher

    The former university robot receptionist in 2004, Saya, now has transformed into a friendly and witty grade school teacher. Hiroshi Kobayashi, Tokyo University of Science professor and Saya's developer was delighted to see the children in class are actually responding positively with Saya as thei...

  • Robovie Goes Shopping with Grandma Robovie Goes Shopping with Grandma

    In response to a very significant statistics of seniors in Japan, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International or ATR developed a robot that will come to the aid of grandma whenever needed. Robots, in Japan are essentially making a great deal in helping out seniors do their tasks....

  • Japan's First Autonomous Agricultural Robot Japan’s First Autonomous Agricultural Robot

    According to an ancient folk song "Planting (rice) is never fun, Bent from up 'till the set of sun. Can not stand and can not sit, can not rest for a little bit". This is how planting rice used to be and oh well, some other countries do still have these traditional way. However in Japan, planting...

  • Robot Workers Increase Robot Workers Increase

    We cannot discount the fact that science and technology is getting more advanced and sophisticated each time. This is indeed remarkable, as scientists and engineers, alike, are making robot workers to improve our lives. We know also that robot workers cannot exist and function without humans oper...