NEDO's Advanced Robotics project enters second phase, boasts totally sweet bots
By Laura June 
posted Feb 23rd 2009 9:37PM
posted Feb 23rd 2009 9:37PM
NEDO, an administrative institute in Japan, has been working on what it calls the "Project for Strategic Development of Advanced Robotics Elemental Technologies" since 2006. The project has now entered its second phase, and boasts some pretty impressive looking bots. Murata Machinery's robotic delivery system (pictured above) which is designed to help in places like hospitals, delivering medications late at night so that nurses and aids don't have to spend a lot of time on such tasks. The company plans to test it and monitor the bot in use at hospitals in order to verify its effectiveness. We don't know about you, but the idea of this guy visiting us late at night when we're feeling low in a hospital is either really awesome or terrifically creepy. Either way, we fully expect this guy to have a starring role in The Phantom of the Opera any day now. Hit the read link to check out the other participants in the project.
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So THAT'S where Rob the Robot from old-school Nintendo fame wound up. I wondered whatever happened to you!
The robots in Japan are really awesome. In fact it's a bit scary to me..I wonder have you all seen before the video taping the experiment of Honda robot. It is soooooo human! i don't know..that feel scary!
Which "read link" are we supposed to "hit"?
Almost as sweet as the robot in Rocky 4
I misread it as "enters second base" and completely misunderstood the emotional bonds between the robot and his trolley.
They're just friends.
Am I the only one that thinks that these robots are still really lame. I thought that by now they would be alot more functional. Also look alot more human shaped. I dont expect them to walk around and hump people like in A.I. just yet, but they could at least look like the bartender on TFE and do some useful tasks. Everything I have seen so far looks like my mini-fridge.