Friday, May 14, 2010

Cute Linux powered humanoid robot, speaks, listens and knows your face

http://www.handlewithlinux.com/linux-powered-humanoid-robot

This is wakamura a 100cm high little robotic pall , originally developed to be used in house as a baby sitter.
It has face recognition for 10 faces and understands 10000 words. It's powered by Linux and it's developed by mitsubishi.

Controller

CPU

Multi processor configuration

Operating system

Linux

Robot control architecture

Serial bus connection distributed processing I/O

Sight

Omni-direction camera x 1
Front camera x 1

Hearing

Directional microphone x 1
Non-directional microphone x 3

Touch/Force sensing

Shoulder sensor
Hand sensor

Voice

Speaker

Safety Structure

Designed for minimum energy consumption and maximum safety.
Complies with the Japanese domestic standards of home appliances
Safety joint structure prevents finger pinching

Interlocking

Arm: full axis servo level collision detection (torque monitoring)

Originally available for 14.000$ but nowadays you'll have to travel to Japan to meet him, as it's for rent in Japan only. ;-(

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