News Hitachi unveils 'fastest robot'

Hitachi raises the stakes in the All-Japan robot wars with it's latest droid, Emiew:

Japanese electronics firm Hitachi has unveiled its first humanoid robot, called Emiew, to challenge Honda's Asimo and Sony's Qrio robots. Hitachi said the 1.3m (4.2ft) Emiew was the world's quickest-moving robot yet at 6km/h (3.7 miles per hour).

Two wheel-based Emiews, Pal and Chum, introduced themselves to reporters at a press conference in Japan.

They will be guests at this month's World Expo. Sony and Honda have both built robots to showcase engineering.

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Bit of a cheat though, as the previous fastest robot was bipedal, not wheeled.

 

inredibly un-impressive, its just using a gyro! Isn't the silly human transporter thingie faster than that ne way?

 

Uh - just curious -
where are those 137,000 "entertainment and leisure" robots currently in homes?

 

Those little sony dogs I guess

 

....and what fool put their heads on upside down?

 

A robot i guess...

 

Cheat indeed, and I'd like to see this one climb stairs

It all depends on which environment its placed in though, a factory floor would be ideal for example.

 

"Pal and Chum impressed with their chat and fast moves" - bit of a dogs dinner if you ask me.

 

I believe that Honda made one which rclimbed the stairs and rand the trading bell at the new york stock exchange

[Edit] ok it may not have climbed and stairs (although i sware ive seen it do them) but it did ring the bell - button style. linkey [/edit]

 

Somewhere at home I've got a book with a title something like "The Usborne Book of the Future". It's actually three earlier books repackaged in a one-volume format.

Now, it's fairly hit-and-miss, but amongst the predictably laughable stuff, there are a goodly number (about 40% I'd say) of eerily accurate predictions for the development timelines and social impacts of what were, at the time (mid 70's), extremely "futuristic" technologies. If you look past the ridiculous one-piece nearly-identical coveralls that all futuristic people are apparently required to wear by law, you have mobile 'phones ("wristos" ha ha but the concept is identical), hybrid cars, fuel cells, spray-on skin, widespread recycling, personal computing, Internet, telecommuting, and a whole bunch more.

Anyway my point is that this 2.5 million number for personal robots sounds more like one of the "wacky, wildly over-ambitious" predictions rather than one of the "eerily accurate" ones

Nezuji

 

Definately moddable. I want a bi-pedal one, I'll swap out his leg servos for quicker ones, replace most of the heavy metal components with fiber composites to reduce weight, and give him red-LED eyes with a grim looking face mask, muhahahaha. Robot modding... the next logical step.

 

i'd of thought if u called then new rampant rabbits a robot (they do have feedback systems to adjust their functionality..... aparently) then surely theres more than 175,000 ?

 

Honda's robot 'ASIMO' can climb stairs, up & down

I saw it at the London Science Museum as part of it's 'World Tour'

It was amazing to see how well it can move, very fluid and life-like.

 

Don't they all at the time?
I mean really, imagine it's 1972 - the idea sitting at home for your 'office' job and having it be (access and functionality wise...) just like you were in the office?
Sounds "wacky [and] wildly over ambitious" to me - for 1972 thinking anyway.

 

True, true, but then again this same book also had us all observing a minute's silence for the anniversary of the end of WWIII during a live 3D holographic broadcast of the first Olympics held on the moon as we sit inside a generational spaceship made by hollowing out a huge asteroid by now...

Nezuji

 

I'm inside my hollowed out asteroid ship right now!! What a coincidence....

(See - it even says so over
<------ there )

 

LOL!

Man, the latency must be a b***h!

Nezuji

 

Lasers man - lasers...

 

LAZERS! what colour are these lazers? are they blue, purple or some sort of majical colour not yet discoverd and to observe it would make any man get down on his knees and weep!
very funny stuff there guys