This is a big step for Aldebaran and its Nao line of humanoid robots.
Yoshiyuki Sankai, at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, proudly continues Japan's long tradition of innovative--and surprising--humanoid robots.
Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, currently is working with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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One of the UK's earliest humanoid robots has been unearthed after spending 45 years stored in a garage.
Two humanoid robots, Max and Ben, have been helping teach children with autism at Topcliffe Primary since March.
Honda's robot, ASIMO, is humanoid and can walk, talk and respond to commands.
It's a two-foot tall humanoid that can walk, look for familiar objects and pick up or drop off objects.
But despite their limitations, humanoid robots might yet prove invaluable in narrow, fixed roles in hospitals, schools and homes.
Now, the arrival of increasingly humanoid automatons in workplaces, in an era of high unemployment, is bound to provoke a reaction.
However, said Mr. Metta, even if we can not make a humanoid robot, we can nevertheless make other robots more human.
And yet, as Notroff pointed out, the pillars are almost certainly humanoid figures, with long narrow bodies and large oblong heads.
No, said Mr. Jackson, there is a great future for robots, and even for humanoid ones, just not what the movies show.
That kind of multitask humanoid bot might cost as much as a car, ABI Research suggested in a report late last year.
Brooks insisted that humanoid robots have the potential to be hugely beneficial.
With the progress in robotic technology, the humanoid automaton R2D2 featured in the Star Wars films could soon become a regular household feature.
Bina48 is there to challenge senior learning executives: could a humanoid robot be a teacher or personal tutor by the end of the next decade?
The ship has been tended by a humanoid robot, David (Michael Fassbender), who's been boning up on ancient languages and rewatching "Lawrence of Arabia" during transit.
Metta and Haass were both confident that simple, non-humanoid robots would be possible to work alongside humans doing simple tasks, such as holding heavy objects in factories.
Dr Rao's team began by programming a humanoid robot with simple behaviours which users could then select with a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) cap that picked up their brain activity.
The first humanoid robot in space, Robonaut 2, will not be joining the crew for the game, as he was recently disassembled following some maintenance earlier this week.
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It's just hard to fathom how useful they are without a humanoid robot capable of moving the finished wash into the dryer or putting the porkroast in the oven.
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All he had discovered was a piece of ape-like skull, a tooth and, some way away, a bit of humanoid femur, which he believed came from the same individual.
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De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.
The study suggests not just that humans are tuned to watch for subtle hints of sketchy behavior, but that future humanoid robots could foster trust by using the right gestures.
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"The concepts of smart apartments -- one that is highly automated, perhaps with a humanoid robot element -- is however very do-able and saleable in about ten years, " said Whitby.
Mr Obama is sometimes compared to Star Trek's emotionless and hyper-rational protagonist Mr Spock, and I can imagine him, hand gripped to the head of an alien humanoid of a startling orange hue.
What happens if you put a maker of humanoid robots, a consumer gadgets geek and a lady whose mission in life is enthusing children about computer coding in studio together?
Granted, they are still far from the humanoid machines described by another science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov - capable of dreaming and getting people to fall in love with them.
In the introduction, Yorifuji explains that as a student, he had trouble memorizing the elements and so wished to make them into humanoid figures to try to give each a personality.
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His vision: A few years from now humanoid robots--remotely controlled by joystick jockeys at call centers in low-wage countries like China--will prepare your lunch, take out the garbage, do the laundry.
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