Pal Technology's REEM-B humanoid shown off in Abu Dhabi

We heard that Pal Technology's REEM-B would be "fully revealed in Q1 2008," and while things seem to be running ever-so-slightly behind, we can't gripe too much. The creature was recently shown off in Abu Dhabi, where onlookers swooned and secretly crushed on the totally macho being. Its creators have also announced that the 1.47-meter tall robot was the last prototype to be formed, as it has plans for a commercial venture "in the near future." The overriding goal for REEM-B is to have it act as a service bot for the elderly and disabled, and considering that it has no qualms reacting to voice commands and "engaging in simple conversations," we'd say it's pretty well suited to do just that. Check out the video after the break to see it in action.

[Thanks, Saad]

[IndusCreed @ Jun 13th 2008 2:59PM]

fight asimo to the death

[Imitor @ Jun 13th 2008 4:33PM]

OK. THIS IS LIKE THE 6TH PICTURE WITH THAT JASON MASK!!! WTF IS THIS ENGADGET?!?!?!?

[Engadgetluvsappl @ Jun 13th 2008 4:38PM]

By my count, there's 7 on the first page as of now.

What's the deal, Engadget?

[Frank V. Roesler III @ Jun 13th 2008 4:48PM]

I know! I totally noticed Jason everywhere too. Ever since that post about the cloak of silence I keep seeing him.

I think engadget is out to KILL!

[pwharff @ Jun 13th 2008 4:51PM]

Wow, I totally missed this Jason at first. Flippin fun for the day. Keep it up. Now, I'm like wired to engadget, waiting to find all the hidden Jasons!

[Engadgetluvsappl @ Jun 13th 2008 4:55PM]

Maybe it's to do with Friday the 13th?

Do I get a prize?!?!

[TareX @ Jun 14th 2008 5:10AM]

@Artie Lange

So it's a "link" war now, on Engadget? really?
So basically if I google polygamy in the US, right here right now, in 2008, I won't encouner hundreds of polygamist families in US "village" communities, where women don't work....etc, that have nothing to dow ith US law and jurisdiction, and that basically gives me the right to shout out racial stereotypes at all Americans for their screwed up way of life....etc Really?

And if I google crimes committed under the name of Christianity or whatever, that gives me the right to generalize and shout out racial comments and stereotypes and HELL YEAH I GOT A LINK TO SUPPORT IT YOU....etc

wow, thanks for defining my culture and way of life we've been living for years based on a link depicting some crazy fundamentalist regime's crimes decades ago. WOW. Are you really convinced with your "justification"? I've been living in the Middle east for 20 years. I've been to 5 Arab countries, and a total of 12 countries in 4 continents. But hey you googled crimes so hell yeah you know a lot more about my culture than anyone else in the world, and you have a link to support it.

Your bigotry amazes me. And your justification for such distgusting stereotypical remark justification sickens me. If anything, based on my time in the US, a woman over here it treated with TONS more respect than she is in your country. A woman could feel free to cover up and still find a job, excel at it, and be rewarded for her competence. Try that in the US, based on my real experience, women don't have it that easy in the US. Oh my God. But hey some "mullah" decades ago gave you a link so what the hell do I know, I must be living in a barbaric cave but in denial.

[TareX @ Jun 14th 2008 6:52AM]

sorry guys that's really not the thread I was replying to! (replying to one below)

weird thing about the Hockey mask images.... I found it all over engadgetmobile as well... maybe an inside joke?

[Artie Lange @ Jun 14th 2008 7:32AM]

TaraX, you claimed stoning does not occur, that it hasn't existed for "1000 years". Clearly, it does. So, were you lieing, or were you ignorant to its existence? If you were lying, then nothing you've written here is to be taken seriously. If you were ignorant to its existence, then everything you've said here is possibly inaccurate and should similarly be disregarded.

Really, you've discredited yourself, and no amount of deflection or demagoguery will change that fact.

[TareX @ Jun 14th 2008 2:50PM]

Ahem... I believe "PRETTY POPULAR" were your words of choice? And I also believe your "link" was a 'just' justification for any past and future slurs on your behalf? Why stoning? I'm sure if we google "eating babies" we're gonna find someone in the world who's doing it. Doesn't mean I can attribute it to a certain people, generalize it, and consider it a justification for any slurs on my behalf, oh and then call someone he says ppl don't eat babies a liar (AHA i got a link you... sneaky.. sneaky man.) By the way I googled "eating babies" and... guess what.

[jsv @ Jun 13th 2008 3:01PM]

That's awesome, no more dishes...laundry...everybody is going to be fat and lazy if this comes out LMAO

i still want one. where can i preorder?

[Motoken @ Jun 13th 2008 11:41PM]

like we ant already fat and lazy lol

[rony @ Jun 13th 2008 3:01PM]

his legs look like they have been steam ironed......

[94 taurus owner @ Jun 13th 2008 3:05PM]

When are they going to make a real robot that actually can talk and walk up the stairs without falling flat on their faces.

[JamesR @ Jun 13th 2008 3:15PM]

Guess you better get started, eh?

[Harley3k @ Jun 13th 2008 3:06PM]

Great...another million dollar piece of technology that has the cognitive ability of a retarded child.

[brad @ Jun 13th 2008 3:07PM]

i-robot anyone?

[kagai @ Jun 13th 2008 3:09PM]

"So, where do the explosives go?"

Do robots dream of heaven...would it be 40 virgin George Lucas' (is that redundant)?

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 3:41PM]

As a muslim, its a pity to hear such remarks.. And I feel completely embarrassed.. But I'm not ashamed.. If you know the religion well, you'll understand that everything you've said is not based on the religion .. but on ppl who have smeared and ruined its image..

God bless you..

[TareX @ Jun 13th 2008 3:46PM]

I can say SCREW YOU. Or I can rationalize my way through your remark.

But then there's no rationale to what you said so I guess I'll go with "Screw you".

[hamurabi2k @ Jun 14th 2008 11:36AM]

It is not a coincidence. It is a providence. Where is Neo?

[nintendo fanboy hater @ Jun 13th 2008 3:10PM]

it will secretly spy on them so that if they talk to any man they can be dragged home and stoned to death. it says so in the Qu'ran

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 3:43PM]

Before you bring these racist remarks, please enlighten me with your knowledge. Where does it advocate in the Quran to stone women?

Your ignorance is based on misconceptions and I can't blame you for it. But please try to educate yourself next time..

Thanks :)

[TareX @ Jun 13th 2008 3:48PM]

It does? WOW.

At least you got Qur'an spelled right, so I guess all these nights spent learning Islam from movies weren't a complete waste.

[Hamidxa @ Jun 13th 2008 9:45PM]

Tarex,

Actually, he kind of botched the spelling of Qur'an.

Note the placement of his apostrophe. ;)

[Abuzar @ Jun 14th 2008 1:14AM]

Why is Marwan low ranked?

Screw all the idiots like nintendo fanboy hater.

[Abuzar @ Jun 14th 2008 1:14AM]

Why is Marwan low ranked?

Screw all the idiots like nintendo fanboy hater.

[ElectroBot @ Jun 13th 2008 3:12PM]

It's got a creepy resemblance to the robotic head 790 from the SciFi series Lexx.

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/images/790.jpg

[Boarderwoot @ Jun 13th 2008 3:19PM]

"Please don't turn me over to the men to get stoned!!!!! WHY DOESN'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ASIMOOOOOVVVVVVAAAARRRGGHHH......!!! (robot objective to eliminate all females and destroy humanity complete...skynet rules)

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 3:42PM]

Before you bring these racist remarks, please enlighten me with your knowledge. Where does it advocate in the Quran to stone women?

Your ignorance is based on misconceptions and I can't blame you for it. But please try to educate yourself next time..

Thanks :)

[TareX @ Jun 13th 2008 3:52PM]

Oh my God. Reading such ignorant comments, I wonder: What the hell are kids like you watching all-day long?

It's so sad.

[Boarderwoot @ Jun 13th 2008 3:58PM]

thats right, i apologize...im sorry, i know you're soooo busy responding to every other post on this article with the exact same remark so thatnks for taking the time to respond to mine. As for my information, stoning seems to be quite popular when repremanding women in the middle east because they have relationships with other men of the same sect or of different sects or anything for which a woman should be punished, so maybe these ideas would spread to huminoids as well....just a stab in the dark.

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 4:05PM]

hey..

ya .. you might have heard of stoning.. but let me clear few things up..

It has nothing to do with the Quran or the religion itself.. if its practised, its because ppl have made up their own rules.. they're to blame for smearing this faith..

Secondly, your information tells you its popular.. If you could show me any source that confirms such thing i would be surprised.. I've lived in the middle east for quite some time and such things don't happen in the entire region.. and not on popular basis..

Do they happen?.. probably.. but isn't crime everywhere?

[TareX @ Jun 13th 2008 4:08PM]

Then I must have been living somewhere else for the past 25 years of my life, so have my parents, for the past 50 years of their lives, with some different sort of faith in my mind.

OR maybe you were.... um...wrong? And uh...have a ...mis*con*ception?

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 4:08PM]

and oh.. thanks for the apology.. i really appreciate it

[TareX @ Jun 13th 2008 4:11PM]

I GET IT.

He was talking about some "1000 Nights" story he used to read before sleeping. Kid, what you're talking about hasn't existed for 1000s of years, and when it did, it was b4 islam, and it was directed at both men and women.

But I guess it makes "good material" when producing a movie so that's probably why you firmly think it is... "quite popular".

[Boarderwoot @ Jun 13th 2008 4:15PM]

Just like muddyh2o it was more of a jab at a region, not a religion. that part came from a youtube and cnn search both which gave specific detials like that, i didnt intend on attacking a religion. so ill stick to the region and what the internet and tv tells me and sterotype a typical ignorant american.

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 4:23PM]

deal.. good to hear that..

[Artie Lange @ Jun 13th 2008 6:58PM]

"Kid, what you're talking about hasn't existed for 1000s of years, and when it did, it was b4 islam, and it was directed at both men and women."


O Rly?

http://www.dhushara.com/book/sakina/stoningetc/stoning.htm

"The stoning of women is one of the more savage, and revealing aspects of the mullahs' rule in Iran and of fundamentalist application of the law in Afghanistan. Since the inception of the mullahs' rule in Iran hundreds of women of various ages have been and continue to be stoned to death throughout the country."

If you dedicated half the energy you waste defending the indefensible towards reforming the barbary that controls permeates your culture, you might actually get out of the desert.

[ireland @ Jun 13th 2008 3:22PM]

I wonder if it gets a pretty dress like that guy behind him.

[Mike @ Jun 13th 2008 3:27PM]

Yup, and a veil / headscarf too.

[Minilap @ Jun 13th 2008 3:31PM]

And no charge for the month of Ramazan,

[JimReaper @ Jun 13th 2008 4:59PM]

And don't forget a Jason mask!

[Cassini @ Jun 13th 2008 3:27PM]

That's cool!

When you can get it to do a double-back flip on a motorbike, let me know.

[Krush @ Jun 13th 2008 3:32PM]

Dont know 'bout u guys but I don't think I would ever go near something named "REEM" .....

[whatishalo? @ Jun 13th 2008 4:26PM]

yeah, a few iterations will be the REEM-U version...I guess those might be quite popular in San Fransisco...

[muddyh2o @ Jun 13th 2008 3:35PM]

i'm surprised that no one made a suicide bomber comment. i expected to see:

"and if you're one of the first 100 orders, it comes with an explosive belt.

why send your son on suicide bombings when you can send the REEM-Bomber?"

or something similar

[muddyh2o @ Jun 13th 2008 3:35PM]

aha- kagai did. i missed that

[Marwan Raoof @ Jun 13th 2008 3:44PM]

As a muslim, its a pity to hear such remarks.. And I feel completely embarrassed.. But I'm not ashamed.. If you know the religion well, you'll understand that everything you've said is not based on the religion .. but on ppl who have smeared and ruined its image..

God bless you..

[tanooki2003 @ Jun 13th 2008 3:48PM]

Seriously you need to lay off the racist remarks. It's shameful and bad enough that you lack real world intelligence of any kind, except from what you learned from TV and media.

You really should go and educate yourself in an actual college and also travel the world before commenting on things that you clearly do not know or understand.

The only thing you have accomplished from your lame comment(s) is pure ignorance borderlining close to retardation.