Qrio & Asimo

[Z]

Sony's Qrio robot attending nursery school in California

Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 07:15 JST
TOKYO — Qrio, a humanoid robot developed by a Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories Inc has been attending a nursery school in California since March to play with children up to 2 years of age in an experiment to help develop a robot that can "live in harmony with humans in the future."

Qrio spends time each day with more than 10 toddlers at the nursery school located in San Diego. Qrio is always accompanied by a researcher, who is in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly. While the children were at first apprehensive about Qrio, they now dance with it and help it get up when it falls. "The children think of Qrio as a feeble younger brother," researcher Fumihide Tanaka said. (Kyodo News)
Source: Japan Today (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=335992)


i,Robot anyone?

http://www.robot.net/qrio/images/sony08.jpg


Everything Qrio (http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top_nf.html)

[diOndOrAntt]

cute :oops:

[Fats]

Wrong, wrong, wrong :shock:

[Z]

Though Honda’s robot is also amazing, the size difference between the two is what makes me a little more impressed by Qrio than Asimo. but all are impressive technological feats. Asimo was also the first robot in history to run. Qrio immediately catched on.
'running' is defined as: having both feet off the ground

http://www.domoticaviva.com/noticias/034-211202/honda01.jpg

[Brandon]

Heh...that little guy looks cool. We still won't be seeing "intelligent" robot AI for a looong time.

[The_One]

I wonder how it communicates with the children it's interacting with... Is that pre-programmed voice recognition stuff or does it actually understand what the kids were saying?

Pretty darn crazy if you ask me.

[Fats]

Though Honda’s robot is also amazing, the size difference between the two is what makes me a little more impressed by Qrio than Asimo. but all are impressive technological feats. Asimo was also the first robot in history to run. Qrio immediately catched on.
'running' is defined as: having both feet off the ground

http://www.domoticaviva.com/noticias/034-211202/honda01.jpg

Looks like shaky hand man has some competition... :o

[Z]

the size difference is huge. Qrio is about the size of one of Asimo’s legs. Plus Asimo has that backpack behind him. It seems that Honda used all the space the wanted.

There are great videos about both ‘incarnations’ playing soccer, dancing, running, jumping, walking up and down the streets (separately, sadly).

I wonder how much one of these babies cost? I would DIE to get one.

[Coded-Dude]

the size difference is huge. Qrio is about the size of one of Asimo’s legs. Plus Asimo has that backpack behind him. It seems that Honda used all the space the wanted.

There are great videos about both ‘incarnations’ playing soccer, dancing, running, jumping, walking up and down the streets (separately, sadly).

I wonder how much one of these babies cost? I would DIE to get one.

whats the matter ROBOSAPIEN just not doing it for you anymore?
(they have a gold one now that comes with a mini-robasapien)