Johnny 5 is Alive - Meet Domo the Humanoid Robot
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
