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As mentioned before in an earlier post on our blog we are constantly looking for ways to automate tasks by using robots. Now blogging can take a lot of your time as a lot of you reading this can testify. It is time consuming to locate appropriate and good looking content on the web for your blog. NEC may have the solution! They have developed a system that facilitates simple and easy creation of multi-media rich blogs by carrying out the background work for the user. This means the robot will take care of searching for images, videos and content. They have developed a new system for automatically creating multi-media blogs with these…….

The PaPeRo Robots

PaPeRo Robot Translating

PaPeRo Robot giving directions

The key features of PapeRo the Robot

You can chat with PaPeRo to create your daily blog

The speech contents of the video message are converted into text and extracted through large-vocabulary, continuous speech recognition technology. Multi-media web contents matching the extracted keywords are then uploaded and edited on the user’s blog, enabling effortless creation of a multi-media blog.

Natural language, text retrieval technology enables searching for internet media

Analyzing the syntactic relationship, such as direct objects and predicate verbs, the system calculates similarities between the text in the contents on the internet and the video message text converted by a speech recognition engine (developed with a large database of spoken words). This allows searching and accurate location of multi-media contents suitable to the contents of the text message.

NEC is currently working on this system toward early commercialization. We will keep you updated on availability. Some day soon RoboTokyo will be run using PaPeRo. Nec if you are reading this can you send us a PaPeRo robot for beta testing thank you.

Source - http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0703/0501.html

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Meet Domo the new upper-torso humanoid robot from the MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab. Domo is a robot with functioning, human-like eyes, arms and hands. It is the latest robot from the American developer Aaron Edsinger.

The goal of Domo is to contribute a novel approach to robot manipulation in unstructured environments. The approach is centered on integrating compliant and force sensitive manipulators into a behavior based architecture that accomplishes useful manipulation tasks in human environments.

It is a major advance on assembly-line robots as it can sense its surroundings and does not work to a pre-programmed routine.

You can imagine in the not so distant future robots similar to Domo doing all manual labour jobs on planet Earth! Here at RoboTokyo we are considering starting the RoboForce robot labour agency. We will hire out robotic workforces to factories, offices and domestic households. Is this a viable business plan (outside of Japan) What do you think?

See Domo in Action…

Helping clean up

Helping with chores

Read more at http://people.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo.htm

Nothing like coming home and having your favourite beer poured for you by your Asahi beer pouring robot.

They are taking over the World! The new craze from Japan is the Robot Chicken. Throw your Tamagatchi’s away and get your very own Dream Chick Robot.

Produced by Sega Toys - the main features of the robot chicken are if you stroke its head it joyfully cries “pipitsu” and if you pick it up it will flap its wings. Buy Dream Chick Now at Play-Asia for only $12.90

Asimo We Love You!

Here at RoboTokyo we often dream of making our own robots to automate the tasks we do not want to do. We have researched the web for the best robot making tutorials and want to share them with you. Automated life here we come!

9 Tutorials on how to build a robot

How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00

The $50 Robot Tutorial

How to Build a Robot using a Coat Hanger

Build a Robitic Webcam

Make a Paper Robot

How to make a Robot Car

How to design a Robitic Hand

Converting a floppy disk drive into a simple robot

Another Simple Robot Tutorial - The MiniBot

Recommended Reading for budding robot makers Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Third Edition (Robot Builder’s Bonanza).

The first in a series of 13. The History of Robot Anime kicks off with Tetsujin 28 in 1963. Enjoy!

Today at our RoboTokyo Headquaters we are listening to music-for robots new april DJ mix and reading How Japanese Toys Conquered the World while automatically generating income from our robotic stock market supercomputer!

Have a un-robotic Tuesday….

The Antoid MR-1002 is the perfect robot kit for the young budding robot creator. The Antoid robot toy walks forward with its six insect like legs detecting objects in its path as it moves. The Antoid can detect objects with its infrared eye. Once an object is detected, the Antoid robot will move to avoid it.To build this educational robot only basic hand tools (cutting pliers, small hammer, long nose pliers, and screwdriver) are required. The robot kit contains detailed instructions and educational background information on each component used and why. The robot kit will teach the fundamentals of sensor technology and show you how it all goes together. In fact, you’ll feel like an engineer when you’re done! This is at a great price and of limited stock so hurry!

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