From WASEDA University Sugano Laboratory, the research organization that brought you the robot that could handle and crack an egg, comes “Twendy-One” the uniquely dexterous robot that can gently make toast, carry your stuff, and even pick you up and hold you.
Seven years and several million dollars has produced one of the most complex robots ever constructed. Twendy-One has 241 pressure sensors in each hand, can speak Japanese, and has voice recognition. Like most awesome electronic systems, battery-life kills the buzz with a max charge of only 15 minutes (when the pack doesn’t overheat).
While it’s still in the concept phase, you can see from these videos that Twendy-One represents remarkable progress in multiple systems integration. The videos show Twendy making toast, getting ketchup, carrying a tray, helping a man out of bed, and having some terse conversation.
Based on their current success, researchers hope to have a commercially viable robot by 2015.
Source: ABC News
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