Where are our mass-produced robot butlers already, the Rosies of our Jetsons families? Still a ways off, unfortunately, but here’s the next best thing: ‘Roboy,’ a child-like service bot that researchers are billing as “one of the most advanced humanoid robots.”
Roboy, which the inventors are trying to create in nine months, is tendon-based, and it’s modeled on people. Young ones, in this case. The idea is for it to help out with duties usually reserved for humans, depending on what the user needs. The robot, or at least similar robots, could help care for the elderly a la Robot & Frank, the researchers say.
via Popular Science
December 26, 2012
Mum already sick, leaving NO qr codes around house, working speedbag, practicing baby debug signing and speed metal chords. Dad’s making little shoes and headscarves with signature chimes on them, for some reason, decorating the room with n-grams in 20 languages.