Japan Corporate News Net : CEATEC Japan 2003: From Sumo to the Martial Arts, a New Generation of Compact Robots Fights it Out at CEATEC Japan
Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 10, 2003 - (JCN Newswire) - Enormous advances are being made in compact robot development, particularly humanoid robots, so mobile and graceful in motion that they might be called beautiful. CEATEC Japan 2003 is giving visitors a look at a future world in which humans and robots coexist to make lifestyles more convenient and abundant.
Wind River Systems, Inc. is exhibiting 'morph 3,' a compact humanoid robot that adopts the company's real-time operating system, VxWORKS (R), and is installed with 13 sub-CPUs (central processing units) in addition to its main CPU. A total of 138 pressure sensors and 30 compact motors allow morph 3 to not only walk on two feet, but also give it the flexibility to perform karate forms, back flips and defensive positions. This robot was designed by a team led by Dr. Takayuki Furuta, chief of the Future Robotics Technology Center at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan.
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