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robotHis touch is gentle and flexible, because it has 241 sensor in the hands …

Snow-white robot can lift a man out of bed and up a conversation with him, prepare his breakfast. Those scientists in Tokyo presented Twendy One, successor robot Wendy. The latest robot has a soft hand and gentle touch and enough power to help the man stand up and sit down.

- Twendy One preparing food, but nothing was broken. His touch is gentle and flexible, and that we have achieved by placing the 241 sensors in his hands – said Sugano Shigeki, professor of mechanical engineering at the University Vaseda, who led the project.

Robot is a high bit less than 1.5 meters and weighs about 111 kilograms. It has long arms, and they have worked on him seven years. During that period they spent several million dollars.

Sugano hopes that such a robot could in the future to help disabled and immovable. Price would be around  200,000$ . But for now it even more perfect. Robot is, in fact, quickly heating and his battery lasts 15 minutes.


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fembotShe know to say 13,000 sentences in English and Japanese,she is very patiently, and never murmur against …

Inventor Le Trung, 33-year old from Ontario in Canada, is constructed Aiko, a woman in the twenties, with perfect ratio, great hair and sophisticated features.She’s even remembered his favorite drink and she also cleaning and doing housework.

Building a female robot for now costed 1.600 euros.He had to raise a loan, sell the car, and he even experienced slight heart attack due to stress, but, he says,that his very pleased with this work. He had no time to find an ideal partner for himself, so he constructed one that helps him even in computable. Although Aiko was not designed to be his sexual partner, software can be adapted.

His aim for her is to feel, looks and behaves like a woman. He regularly leads her for a walk in the countryside, and even at dinners in restaurants, but Aiko never ordered anything.

She know to say 13,000 sentences in English and Japanese, and Li says that is extremely patient and never murmur against. Her entire body and face are sensitive to touch.

- Like every woman, Aiko reacts to the touch. If you excessively click or grab her,she will try to slap you.She have all senses except smell -- says proud Li, who is on Aiko began work two years ago.

Peoples on the street to act differently Aiko. Or love or hate. Women always want to talk with her, and men to touch her.

- She do not need food or rest, can work almost 24 hours a day. The perfect woman -- said Li.


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For centuries, people have used the human body, and the hand in particular, as an inspiration and blueprint for engineering innovations. But copying the human hand hasn’t been easy. Its complex muscular and skeletal structure offers a unique, tricky balance: It is dexterous, stable and precise, but also fast moving, strong and flexible. Despite the challenges, makers of robot hands have called on a host of innovations from a variety of disciplines to bring us closer to fully automated hands. Considered to be the first working robot hand, the Handyman, developed in 1960 by General Electric’s Ralph Mosher, was a two-fingered, heavily jointed claw that set up the foundation for later hands. The design looks rudimentary now, but the five-pivot segment design in each finger was innovative in its attempt to replicate the human hand’s flexible joint structure. A human hand is made up of a set of rigid links (bones and muscles) connected at joints. Each joint can have one degree of freedom (hinging or sliding) or two (rotating or cylindrical). We have four degrees of freedom in each finger, giving us enormous flexibility and the ability to make complex motions. The Handyman’s fingers had three degrees of freedom. But it was the attached mechanical forearm that provided most of the wrist action, as mechanical “tendons” pushed and pulled on the fingers.

A technician had to manipulate the hand by placing his arm inside the apparatus like a puppet. The Handyman’s capabilities were limited: It could pinch and hold, but had no sensitivity to what it was holding, limiting it to clawing indiscriminately at things. Despite almost 50 years of development, these hands are only the beginning. Like notebook computers and MP3 players before them, robot hands will get tinier and ever more complex.


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