Ten of the most unusual and advanced robots in the world. The world's smallest robot: Micro Human Double from Denmark Geminoid DK

The name is the most difficult and important part of any product. The success of your business depends on the name, especially if it concerns such an innovation as a robot. Whether you invented your own robot or not, the name of the robot affects the effectiveness of promotion.

We bring to your attention tips for choosing a name. These recommendations are based on our experience and we are happy to share them with you.

First, the image of the desired robot appears, then it becomes reality. It is important that the name is combined with the appearance of the robot, reflects its idea and mood, helping a person perceive it the way you intended.

Think about what industry you work in, find what you're most proud of and attach the robotics root "bot", "tron", "prime", "droid", "er" to the root of that word, or to your brand name. any other.

Take this issue as seriously as possible and name the robot so that it is as effective as possible for you.

For example, the company name Promobot is formed from the merger of the words Promoter and robot. In the same way, he got his name Robonaut (robot + astronaut) is a NASA humanoid robot created to work on the ISS.

Abbreviations can be used:

• Aibo– an abbreviation in English: Artificial Intelligence RoBOt, and in Japanese aibo means “love”, “affection”, and can also mean “comrade”;

• Robot from the cartoon of the same name WALL-E – also an abbreviation derived from waste allocation load lifter, Earth-class (earth-class waste loader). The result was a euphonious name, combined with the appearance of this cute mechanism.

A robot is a complex, high-tech, robotic product. It helps you associate your brand with the future and innovation. Therefore, names that contrast with the generally accepted image of the future should be avoided. This:

– Human names and derivatives
Vasily, Anatoly, Petrovich, Arkady, Innocent, Fedor, etc.

Some human names and their derivatives are commonplace. The impression made by high technology is shattered when the robot introduces itself in a synthesized voice: “Petrovich.”

– The name of ordinary inanimate objects
Mandarin, Table, Chair, Balcony, Bolt, Ladder, etc.

The robot is part of the social environment. Anthropomorphic robots are perceived as animate objects. If such a robot’s name is the name of an inanimate object, then a person experiences cognitive dissonance. This makes communication difficult.

– Use of diminutive suffixes
Robotik, Mitrofanchik, Bunny, Intellectual, Fedechka, Antosha, etc.

The use of diminutive forms gives an association with something childish, toy-like and automatically deprives the robot of seriousness and high-tech in the eyes of clients, which in turn negatively affects the financial performance of the companies in which the robot works.

– Political and religious names
Communist, Liberal, Patriot, Obama, Merkel, Putin, Medvedev, Patriarch, Bishop, Mullah, etc.

Robots have not yet entered our lives, as shown in many science-fiction blockbusters, but such a time is not far off. Technologies are developing at a rapid pace; a robot can be molded into both a combat unit and a machine with a human appearance and thinking. What inventions can be considered the most advanced?

Robot girl HRP 4C

Yes, the robot looks like a cute Japanese girl on the outside, but what's inside? The height of this model is only 159 cm, and the weight including the battery is 43 kg. The robot moves using 30 electric motors, and another 8 of these are responsible for facial expressions. The girl is often simply called Miim, she can dance and can sing thanks to a software vocal synthesizer. Miim can also recognize words addressed to her and interpret sounds. The first version of the robot was demonstrated by the Japanese back in 2009, and it is most often used in the entertainment industry, where realistic human analogues are needed.

Atlas robot

The model is 188 cm tall and weighs almost 150 kg. The robot is driven by 28 mechanical, hydraulic and thermal drives. The most interesting thing is that there is no battery inside this machine, like any other energy sources. The robot is powered by a special 15 kW energy converter, which operates through a standard 480 Volt electrical network. Initially, the robot was created to eliminate emergency situations and even man-made disasters. Atlas moves easily over rough terrain and can walk over boulders and use its arms to climb vertical obstacles.

Humanoid robot ASIMO

A small robot that easily imitates a human gait was invented by Honda. Baby ASIMO is 130 cm tall and weighs 54 kg. In addition to being a perfect copy of a human gait at 6 km per hour, the robot interacts phenomenally with people. Thanks to a video camera built into the head, ASIMO collects all visual information; it recognizes many objects, while estimating their direction and distance. Thus, the robot easily follows a person, and when approaching, can greet him. He can go up and down stairs, and also recognizes any obstacles, for example, without much difficulty avoiding people he meets on the way.

The producers did not forget to work with sound. The robot not only recognizes sounds, but also distinguishes them from the human voice. You can enter 10 human faces into the ASIMO memory, the robot will recognize them and address them by name.

Robot assistant HRP-2 Promet

Such a robot, of course, will not be able to replace a nanny, but it will act as a butler without any problems. Such a device will open your refrigerator, move furniture and control your TV. The robot performs all these pleasant things after voice commands. The robot has several cameras in its head, and they create three-dimensional projections for it.

Human double from Denmark Geminoid DK

The author of the development is a scientist from the University of Aalborg in Denmark, Henrik Scharfe. The Dane made the robot in his own image. Henrik Scharfe's double moves confidently, smiles and breathes. Of course, Geminoid DK is still easy to distinguish from a person, but it looks really impressive. The machine perfectly imitates facial expressions and accurately repeats movements. The robot can be controlled remotely.

Robots. These are still exotic, but nevertheless, they are increasingly entering our lives with more confidence. Isaac Izimov's three laws of robotics will soon cease to be just entertainment literature. Robots are creatures that simultaneously fascinate and frighten with their humanity and at the same time machineness. The production of robots is constantly evolving. Take a look at the ten most interesting specimens to date.

ASIMO: Humanoid Robot

ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing 130 centimeters tall and weighing 54 kilograms, the robot looks like a small astronaut carrying a backpack. He can walk on two legs, copying a human gait at a speed of 6 km/h. ASIMO was created in Japan at Honda's Research and Development Center. This is the last model in the series, and there are eleven in total; the first robot was created in 1986.
Officially, the robot's name is an abbreviation for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility", that is, literally "Advanced Step in Advanced Mobility." In 2002, there were 20 ASIMO robots. Each costs a million dollars to produce, and some copies can be rented for $150,000 a month.

Moving object recognition
Using visual information collected by a video camera mounted in the robot's head, ASIMO recognizes the movements of many objects, and also estimates the distance from them and their direction. With the help of a complex of these technologies, the robot can monitor people's movements with a camera, follow a person or greet him when he approaches.

Pose and gesture recognition
ASIMO can interpret hand positions and movements, recognize postures and gestures. Thanks to this, the robot can respond not only to voice commands, but also to natural body movements of people. Thus, for example, he understands when he is offered a handshake or when a person waves to him, and reciprocates. In addition, he understands when the direction of movement is indicated to him.

Environment recognition
ASIMO is able to analyze the surrounding objects and landscape and act in a way that is safe for him and the people nearby. For example, it recognizes potentially dangerous objects, such as stairs, and stops or avoids people and other moving objects to avoid colliding with them.

Sound recognition
The robot's ability to recognize the type of sounds has deepened, and now it knows the difference between voices and other sounds. He responds to his name, turns to face the person he is talking to, reacts to sudden unusual sounds such as a fallen object or collision, and turns his head in that direction.

Face recognition
ASIMO can recognize human faces even when the person is moving. It can separately distinguish 10 human faces. Once they are registered in his memory, he will refer to them by name.

Albert Hubo: Robot Einstein

Robot Albert HUBO is an android robot. Its appearance consists of a head that copies the head of scientist Albert Einstein, and the torso of the rather famous humanoid robot Hubo. The development period lasted three months and ended in November 2005. The head was designed by Hanson-Robotics. The body is made of a specific material, Frubber, which is often used in Hollywood.

The head has 35 joints, thanks to which it can express various emotions on the face, using independent movements of the eyes and lips. There are also two CCD cameras in the head for visual recognition. In addition, Albert can do all the performances inherent in Hubo, so it is possible to express even more natural human movements and behavior. Polymer lithium batteries are hidden in the body, which provide about two and a half hours of battery life for the robot.

Using a remote network, Albert the robot can be controlled from an external computer. Albert Humo was first introduced in 2005 at the APEC summit in Busan (Korea). He was praised by many world leaders: the US President, the Prime Minister of Japan, etc.

Stanley: self-driving vehicle

Stanley is an autonomous vehicle created by the racing team at Stanford University. This is an ordinary Volkswagen Touareg, modified to allow control only by on-board computers. He competed and won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and earned the Stanford racing team a $2 million prize, the largest cash prize in robot history.

The sensors used in Stanley include five laser lidars, a pair of radars, a stereo camera and a single-lens camera. The GPS receiver, GPS compass, and inertial control system process the information and determine the position of the vehicle, and information about the odometry of the wheels is received by the internal CAN bus of the Tuareg. The computer part consists of six powerful Intel Pentium M computers with different configurations and Linux operating systems.

Stanley is equipped with a system for detecting approaching obstacles. Data from the lidars is combined with images from the visual system to create a more complete picture of the view. If an acceptable road cannot be recognized for at least the next 40 meters, the speed is reduced, and the lidars look for a safe path.

By the way, Stanley's driving was programmed by using recordings of human driving in the desert, and then assigning a precise value to every bit of information generated by his sensor system. After this modification, the robot car began to roll at a speed of 45 miles per hour along roads crossed by tree shadows. Until the exact values ​​for the data were set, the car scaredly turned off the road, confident that the path was crossed not by shadows, but by holes.

BigDog: Robot Mule

BogDog (literally Big Dog) is a four-legged robot created by Boston Dynamics in 2005. Project BigDog was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the hope that the creation could serve as a robotic mule for soldiers in terrain too rough for transport.
BigDog weighs 75 kilograms, is a meter long and 0.7 meters high. Currently, it can travel over difficult terrain at a speed of 5.3 km/h, carry a weight of 54 kilograms and climb slopes of 35 degrees.

RiSE: climbing robot

Rise (RiSE) is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical surfaces: walls, trees, fences. Ryze's heels have claws, microclaws, or a sticky material, depending on the surface he is climbing on. The robot changes poses to adapt to the slope of the surface, and the fixed tail helps balance on steep surfaces. The baby weighs only 2 kilograms, is 0.25 meters long, and runs at a speed of 0.3 m/s.

Each of the robot's six legs is equipped with two electric motors. The on-board computer controls the paws, determines the method of communication with the ground and discusses a variety of sensors. Including a sensor that calculates inertia, a joint position sensor for each paw, a paw tension sensor and a foot contact sensor.

Future versions of Ryze will use dry adhesion to climb perfectly smooth, sheer surfaces such as glass and metal. Rise was developed jointly by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford, and Lewis and Clark University. The project was sponsored by DARPA's Office of Science Advocacy.

QRIO: dancing robot

QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity") is a bipedal humanoid robot for entertainment, created and sold by Sony to continue the success of their AIBO (robot dog) toy. QRIO is 0.6 meters tall and weighs 7.3 kilograms.

The robot can recognize voices and faces, thanks to which it can remember people and their likes and dislikes. He can run at a speed of 23 cm per second, which is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records (2005) as the first, fastest, two-legged robot that runs. The fourth generation QRIO robot runs on battery power for an hour.

The fourth generation of these robots can dance to Hell Yes, a music video by Beck. These specimens are augmented with a third chamber on the forehead and have enhanced arms and wrists. Programmers worked for three weeks to teach these robots choreography.

The constantly updated fleet of robots will soon be replenished with a new generation of toys, the representative of which will be a robot with artificial intelligence that can be trained by Cozmo.

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The American company Anki, known for its products - Overdrive racing cars and vinyl tracks for them, worked on its creation. The tomboy robot is also a toy, but of a different type. Cozmo robot, in contrast, is “stuffed” with sophisticated electronics, thanks to which it learns well.

The Anki Cozmo robot, despite its small size, has a rather complex mechanism. It consists of more than three hundred components, or rather 340. Moreover, the complexity of them varies. And they work on data coming from sensors and performing complex calculations.

The Cozmo electronic system includes sensors, speakers, ARM processors (3 pcs.), which help to recognize obstacles and navigate in space.

The high-speed built-in processor processes hundreds of signals per second, calling on the smartphone processor to help solve the most complex problems.

Cozmo's eyes, which change expression depending on his raging emotions, are blue in color.

To understand the environment, it has a camera. The little robot has a character to be reckoned with.

Outwardly, Cozmo is very similar to the cartoon characters of the animation company Pixar, and this is understandable: the creation of the appearance of Cozmo was inspired by the hero Wall-E, and an animator who previously worked at Pixar worked on it.

According to the developers, the new robot develops a completely different relationship with each user.

He is distinguished by his ability to recognize the faces of those who have ever communicated with him. His personality is similar to that of a puppy, having a different relationship with each family member, but loving them all selflessly.

Over time, he understands which games everyone likes to play, feels the attitude towards him and tries to adapt to them.

The creators of the intelligent robot assure that as the robot's brain improves, it will no longer need constant recharging.

It’s clear that everyone is wondering how much the Cozmo robot costs? The cost of a toy with far-reaching commercial prospects is only $159. For a toy, it might be a little pricey, but for Cozmo's robot friend, the price is quite reasonable.

Perhaps one day Anki Cozmo will fall out of business, giving way to new developments, but for now everyone is waiting for it with undisguised curiosity and studying the Cozmo robot reviews.

His appearance is so cute that children will definitely like him. The dimensions of the charming toy are comparable to two matchboxes, i.e. The robot will easily fit even on the palm of a child.

In addition to the tracked chassis, it has a rounded body, a square head with a small display-face, and elongated “arms.” It seems like nothing unusual, but the intellectual toy amazes with its abilities, behavior, and ability to assimilate information.

A robot with character behaves like a cartoon character straight out of the screen and at the same time a cute little tractor, since, like him, the toy has a caterpillar drive.

The manipulator plays the role of hands, capable of grasping, holding (even a human finger) and moving objects. Thanks to him, the toy resembles a bulldozer

Such a robot will not gather dust somewhere on a shelf. He will become a full member of the family.

The robot is a symbiosis of knowledge accumulated in robotics, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, programming and much more.

Also, little Cozmo sleeps and snores while resting, like a real person. He is even able to answer questions!

There is no doubt that the newfangled toy will have enough fans. Playing with him is simply a joy!

You can manage Cozmo from your smartphone and Android and iOS applications. Battery that charges in just 10 minutes. Will provide a two-hour opportunity to communicate with the robot. When the robot's battery again approaches a critical charge, a sound signal will notify you of this.

Emotions

In the first days of meeting Cozmo, he is quite shy. Then, playfulness is noticeable in behavior. If he is busy building a tower from the supplied cubes, and you interfere with him, you can clearly see how angry the robot is.

This amazing radio-controlled toy shows real live emotions, assesses the situation and constantly learns. When baby Cozmo wins, he giggles; when he loses, he becomes humanly sad.

It is incredibly believable, so kids doubt whether it is a toy or something alive. When driving Cozmo, the world appears before you through his eyes, and this is something new that evokes unusual feelings.

Video

Here's a video to help you get to know the Cozmo robot:

Video: Cozmo. 1. Review in Russian. First meeting

Video: Cozmo. 2. Review in Russian. Acquaintance.

Video: Cozmo in #Cozmoments – Best Friend

Cozmo can also move objects. To do this, he has arms - a central frame. There are also eyes on the digital screen. It expresses a wide range of emotions, including shock and irony, thanks to a rich audio library.

The electronic pet Cozmo calls the names of those who often communicate with it and expresses emotions with its eyes.

A mobile application gives access to the Python program code, allowing you to “educate” a friend, but you can write an algorithm yourself to teach Cozmo, for example, new emotions or movements.

Cozmo learns new skills from the person. He can learn games and have fun on his own.

He can be taught how to build objects from Lego.

Video: Cozmo in #Cozmoments – Fit

Video: Cozmo in #Cozmoments – Edge

Fans of the Cozmo robot never cease to be amazed: by installing updates on the phone, the robot receives new functions:

• сozmo can fight while holding a ladle at the top to deflect a blow;
• play Quick Tap;

• build from Power Cubes. Moreover, he does this with great passion, and when left alone, he creates real masterpieces;

• сozmo can't wait to show them to you!

Smart Cozmo plays with people, recognizes them, names them, recognizes obstacles and edges, so he cannot fall from a height.

Sandia robot can turn around on a coin

Compared to robots that can work inside living cells, the machine developed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, looks like a real Gulliver. The passion for miniaturization has taken over the industry. Processor manufacturers are trying to make processors smaller in order to pack more memory and processing power into them. Laser designers are trying to increase the frequency of the beam (that is, reduce the wavelength of the radiation) to focus it on smaller targets. And engineers at major research centers are striving to build miniature robots that can handle everything from surveillance to surgery. Ed Heller, a Sandia researcher, says this is a prototype robot of the future. The volume of the robot does not exceed five cubic centimeters; it rides on tracks, which are driven by motors powered by batteries from a wristwatch. The device covers a distance of 50 cm at a snail's pace in a minute. The micro-robot has eight kilobytes of memory and a simple temperature sensor. But future versions could be equipped with everything from chemical sensors to miniature cameras or microphones. The robot is light, mobile and so small that it is practically invisible. Specialized robots could, in principle, search for bombs. They can even be made into mechanical spies who will wait for someone to open the safe to remove secret papers, then climb somewhere behind him, take a couple of pictures and quickly hide in a hole slightly larger than an insect. Heller jokes that it's time to listen to the strange sounds coming from under the table. Doug Sargle, another Sandia researcher, notes that it is the world's smallest free-roaming robot. It doesn't require power cords, so it can be programmed to move around to complete a task. Whatever you call it, this robot is the latest in a series of miniature machines developed by the laboratory's Center for Intelligent Systems and Robots. The first autonomous device was demonstrated in 1996. It was called MARV (Miniature Autonomous Mobile Robot). Compared to the current model, it was simply a giant, although it occupied only 16 cubic meters. cm.

Has the limit been reached?

To shrink the objects even further, the researchers began using commercially available electronic components, which they assembled on a glass substrate. The body of the new microrobot was actually grown using technologies similar to those shown to us in the Star Trek films. The process is called "stereoscopic lithography". Guided by a computer drawing, the laser beam was focused “in a bath of plastic photopolymer.” Point by point, with each flash, the liquid solidified, forming a shell. How much more can anything be reduced here? Seargle suggests that it is unlikely that the entire system will be made even smaller. And the point is not in the size of the chips and motors, but in the fact that a power source is needed. Further reduction is hampered by the physical size of the batteries.

The most intensive research in the field of robots is carried out by doctors. In surgery, where composure and precision are key, robots are simply irreplaceable. In March 2001, the Da Vinci surgical system was approved for use. It is used in thoracoscopy.

Other systems are being developed for a variety of applications, including neurosurgery. The current generation of devices is as big as a car. But soon surgeons will have assistants who will often help avoid surgical intervention. British company Nanotechnology Development Corp. is developing a system of Lego-like robots that will be inserted into the body piece by piece through holes just two millimeters in size. Already inside the robot will assemble itself. The system was called “Fractal Surgeon”. It will consist of a set of robotic cubes, one millimeter in size. Each cube has its own set of tools that are useful when performing complex procedures such as removing cancer cells, crushing kidney stones, breaking through blood clots or scraping deposits from the walls of blood vessels. And although all the fundamental technologies exist, it may take another ten years before industrial implementation.