Kokoro Humanoid Robot assembly kit builds your dream girl

Kokoro has showcased their Human-Type Head Basic assembly kit at the International Robot Exhibition 2009. The Kokoro Robot assembly kit is meant for education purpose, allows students to assemble their own robots, up to a complete robo girl.

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ROPID – a cute robot with good communication and mobility

ROPID is another Japanese robot, that has been added with more cute elements, good communication skills and mobility. The ROPID was developed by Tomotaka Takahashi of Robo Garage at Kyoto University, is tiny in size, and able to respond to voice commands and speak with its mouth moving to present its cuteness.

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Smart prosthetic hand has feelings

A prosthetic hand called smart hand is being developed by researchers in Italy and Sweden, which allows the patients to have feelings in the fingertips.

The smart hand was tested on some patient, where it had four motors and forty sensors linked directly to the brain. They had surgery to have the patients’ nerve endings linked up to receptors in the prosthetic hand, enabling the patients to have feelings in figertips of the hand, even though it is not really part of the body.

The smart hand is the first of its kind that sends signal back to brain. It has taken the researchers 10 years of hard work, and finally they have one that at least allows those who’ve lost their hands to regain little sense of touch.

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Vstone Robovie-PC robot has Intel Atom inside

The Vstone Robovie-PC robot has almost every component found in a computer, like a netbook, has an Intel Atom processor inside. The use of an Intel Atom and other components of a computer allows the robot to be easily programmable.

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7-day scheduling robotic vacuum cleaner

Overly busy corporate climbers will not have time to clean or vacuum their apartments or houses. To keep your home clean and free from dust, it’s definitely handy to have a robotic vacuum cleaner that is capable of scheduling to clean your home for once a day.

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BloodBot – a blood-drawing robot

Hospitals that need frequent blood transfusion, may need a blood-drawing robot to ease their daily operations. Here comes the BloodBot, a robot that is specially made for drawing blood from the donors or patients.

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Samsung Furot II Robotic Vacuum Cleaner with built-in camera as its eyes

Samsung has unveiled their new robotic vacuum cleaner, Furot II, at IFA in Berlin. This robotic vacuum cleaner may work slightly different from others and more intelligent as it comes with built-in camera which acts as its eyes to help avoid obstacle when it’s moving away to clean the dirt and dust.

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Polaris – a handset and a robotic cradle monitors your daily life

The Japanese KDDI has teamed up with Flower Robotics, working on a device called the Polaris, which consists of a cellphone and a robotic cradle. The handset is equipped with the customary chores monitors which are able to monitor the user’s daily life activities.

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Gadgets and tech-tips round-up

It’s great to have a gadgets and tech-tip weekly round-up on TechChee.com, although we haven’t had it consistent in the past, but from today, we are gonna be consistent for the round-up on every Saturday. Here you go what we missed this week, happening all over the gadget and tech blogosphere.

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Wall-E USB flash drive

A USB flash drive has now come in the shape of the Wall-E robot. This Wall-E USB flash drive is stuffed with 8GB storage capacity and has a keychain attachment.

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