Murata on Monday revealed its latest model robot, a unicycle-riding machine that can make S-shaped curves on a balance beam. The robot, named Murata Seiko-chan, is 50 centimeters tall, weighs about 6 kilograms and is an improvement over the previous model that could only go in a straight line on the beam. Robot Seiko-chan instantaneously…

Panasonic today announced the development of an electric care assistance bed with an integrated wheelchair and a hair-washing robot that drew on the company’s robotics technology. Using its expertise in robotics technology, Panasonic simplified the structure of the new electric care assistance bed by reducing the number of motors and modifying the components. As a…

Panasonic Evolta robot set a new world record last year for travelling 23.726km at LeMans, France. This year robot Eboruta designed by Tomotaka Takahashi will try to set a new world record by covering the 500km between Tokyo ( Nihonbashi ) Kyoto ( Sanzyou Oohashi ). The race will start on September 23rd and finish…

A research project will be conducted this week in Linz, Austria, to discover what the ideal interaction between people and humanoid robots ought to be in the future, Honda R&D and Ars Electronica Futurelab announced. The research, the first of its kind in Europe, will involve members of the public directly interacting with ASIMO, Honda’s…

South Korea is trialing a remote-controlled sentry robot capable of carrying out surveillance and combat functions along the military demarcation line. An Armed Robot- SGR-1 was deployed last month at a guard post within the demilitarized zone on the central frontline in Gangwon Province. It is a remote-controlled armed robot with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. The…

Noby, a robot similar to a nine-month-old human, unveiled at Tokyo University earlier this week. The robot is 71 cm tall and weighs 7.9 kg, has two cameras and two microphones. Noby the robot baby is also equipped with some 600 touch sensors in the artificial skin of his body. Noby is designed to simulate…

The Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs will channel 20 billion won ($17.88 million) over the next five years to develop versatile aquatic robots, which can swim as well as crawl on a seabed 6 kilometers deep by 2015. The versatile aquatic robots will be able to swim at a speed of 18…

The automatic cooking robot jointly developed by Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yangzhou University and an enterprise from Shenzhen can cook more than 600 kinds of dishes of different Chinese cuisine.

Korean scientists have created a domestic robot-Mahru-Z that cleans up, dumps clothes in the washing machine and even heats food in the microwave. The 1.3-meter, 55-kilogram Mahru-Z an assistant robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), has a human-like body with a rotating head, arms and legs, and is capable of…

Japanese researchers have developed a hummingbird robot that can flutter around freely in mid-air with rapid wing movements. The robot, a similar size to a real hummingbird, is equipped with a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, the researcher at Chiba University east of Tokyo. The…