There's an interactive orchestra, live videos from around the world, and a real robot that will draw your portrait in sand at the Science Museum in London.
The snakes observed appear to accept the robot as real, with one snake even biting the robot's head, according to researchers.
At the moment it is tiny and may not look like much, but in future it could form the basis for a real-life Transformer robot, autonomously reconfiguring itself to perform different tasks.
Another saw the use of a robot sage grouse hen to study their real-life mating habits.
By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontal axis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman says that he can recreate Dr Mori's chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation.
The researchers eventually will switch to satellite communications, which will allow the robot to roam farther and transmit data in real time.
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Many Japanese seem to like robot versions of living creatures precisely because they are different from the real thing.
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All the EcoBot systems were meant to mimic real digestion and respiration (an artificial metabolism) in order to create a robot capable of autonomous behavior.
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But according to Tadashi Yamazaki, one of the scientists who worked on the project, the baseball-playing robot is the second largest model of its kind and it runs in real time, meaning its much faster than other systems.
Ava, an app ready robot, uses tablet-based control and autonomous navigation to maneuver in complex real world environments.
The surgical robot will go through its paces on dummy patients, before being employed for real-life operations on the lumbar region.
One of the real selling points for potential developers, though, are the array of servos that power the robot's legs, which can operate simultaneously and provide some 40 pounds of lift apiece.
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So if you've been yearning for your very own Wowwee companion, but just don't have the coinage required to own the real deal, feel free to click on over and bring home the Robone, X-Robot, Robosaur, or Robodog now for just... well, nothing, considering even the "add to cart" function of the sketched-out website doesn't always work.
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But jump starting a virtuous cycle where developers can find uses for the PR2 and its Robot Operating System, spurring, in turn, the development of better robots, could make a real difference.
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