Trash can reborn as cute Android robot

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If you've always wanted that little Android icon on your phone to come to life, there's hope. Someone from Taiwan has built himself an Android robot--made from a painted garbage can.

Despite its trashy origins, the wheeled robot certainly looks adorable with its rotating arms and LED lights for eyes. All of these actions are controlled via an external remote control. There's even a little port at the back to charge the machine.

This little fella was built using Arduino, an open-source microcontroller board for developing interactive objects. The microcontroller takes commands from the remote control and sends them to the switches used to control the lights and motors of the robots.

Additionally, it has a little screen in front that reads:

Hi! I'm Android, ready to go!

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The project took three days to finish and cost about $104. Right now, we're visualizing an army of these things rolling toward Apple's headquarters.

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Here's the video of the little robot in action. Try not to laugh too hard around 3:28.

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Paro robot seal comforts tsunami in Japan

Japanese engineers sent the Paro robot seal to comfort victims of the March 3, the earthquake and tsunami in Northern Japan.
Modeled on the harp is a robot child, Paro therapeutic that responds to touch and votes. Discusses the tactile sense and responds to petting by squealing. This meant zagluszyc people who use it.

Developed by as Takashirei Shibata in Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and technology (AIST), Paro was used in houses in Japan and overseas since 2003; eight generations were produced. Research has shown that stress can lower levels of Paro, users and carers. It may also help Dementia patients.

This report from TV NHK shows people in the areas affected by the tsunami in Japan interacting with Paro recently. The bot has visited shelters escape including Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture site, a small town, which was almost completely destroyed in the crash.

Old woman in the picture above you can hear, saying that Paro she said that she is doing her best to keep his chin.

Handmade in Japan, it costs about $ 6,000 Paro and approved as a medical device of class 2 in the u.s.; care make up the bulk of users. Report from the Wall Street Journal last year described mixed response to Paro.

Not according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, however, children in Japan, the disaster zone, you can download sufficiently robo-seals. It nevertheless gives artificial love and asks nothing in return.
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PR2 robot helps quadriplegic man shave as himself

PR2, robot collection of beer, folding laundry, breakfast making jack of all trades has been taken up as a personal assistant for man disabled by a stroke.

Coffee maker Willow Garage has worked with Charlie Kemp and colleagues healthcare Robotics Lab, Georgia Tech, to help Henry Evans and his wife Jane in a project dubbed Robots for humanity.

Sounds rather grandiose, but the aliens robot has made real progress in the life of Evans, who suffered a brain stem stroke at the age of 40, which left him paralyzed and mute. Therapy has enabled him to move his head and a finger.

To enable him to use the computer and the control of PR2. The BOT helped him scratch-itch for the first time in 10 years.

As the vid below shows Evans prefers shave himself with PR2, and not the other person to do so.

The Robot has a motion tracking system, which you can monitor Kinect its movements of the head and Evans can be used for navigation and for manipulating objects.

The project has just commenced and comes after Georgia Tech was awarded last year as part of the PR2 Beta program Willow company. Healthcare Robotics Lab supporting Mobile manipulation for older adults in the home, the project focuses on using the machines help seniors at home.

As you can see in these films, the laboratory already had experience with using his robot EL-(E) to persons with ALS.

Now focuses on the development of software for home care PR2 midfield, as well as the trials of the robot, which examine the real needs.

Sings karaoke robot mouth wants you

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Robot arm smelly, meet mouth singing robot. In a way that you can both own special stink.

Without a doubt, Hideyuki Kagawa University Sawada of Japan would take umbrage at this. This week in Tokyo in 2011 Robotech, he is showing off her mouth singing as a play the human voice in electro-mechanical fashion.

Usta Sawada's was around for years, but he and his colleagues have improved it--mechanically, i.e.. It is still the Marne singer.

The estuary has the air compressor, holding the function of the lungs and silicone tube-shaped tongue and resonance for eight servo motors to create different sounds.

It operates in a loop feedback, listening to his horrific ululations via microphone, analyzing its production, compared to the sound of the target and correcting himself.

Vid below shows it trying to sing "Kagome Kagome" tune for the children. Setting it does not sound much like the real thing.

But still I think that this thing would have a chance at stardom, by reason of wig and a few motions of the dance.

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Śmiecie reborn as cute Android robot

If you would like a small icon of the Android phone to life, there is Hope. Someone Got Android robot he built himself--with paint.

Despite its origins certainly trashy wheeled robot looks like a great neighbourhood with its radiating arms and led lights for eyes. All these activities are controlled by external remote control. There is even a little port on the back for charging machines.

This little fella was built, using the Arduino Microcontroller Board open source for the development of interactive objects. The microcontroller takes commands from a remote control and sends it to the switches used to control lights and motors, robots.

In addition to the small screen at the front, which is replaced by the following:

Hi! I am a Android, ready to go!(Credit: gadget M.I.C.)
The project took three days to complete and cost approximately $ 104. Right now we're visualizing the armies of these things, turning towards the headquarters of Apple.
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Here is a little robot video in action. Try not to laugh too difficult, around 3: 28.
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