Today I visited AIST JRL (Advance Institute of Science and Technology - Joint Japanese-French Robot Laboratory) where my fellow Pablo F. Alcantarilla and his supervisor, Dr. Olivier Stasse, kindly introduced me to this guy:
Its name is HRP2 Promet, a 1.6 meters tall, state of the art, humanoid robot. It was built by Kawada Industries, Inc and is used at AIST as a research platform. I had seen this robot on the internet before but nothing compared to seeing it in action in real life.
During the visit the robot performed several demos, including walking in a constrained environment (see next picture) and moving to a goal position by using Computer Vision.
On that same laboratory they are developing HRP4-C, the little sister of HRP2. As she is the youngest in the family she wants to be an artist, but unfortunately I have no pictures of HRP4-C, they still keep it under a lot of secrecy. But you can see this video taken at "Digital Contents Expo 2010":
Any way, meeting HRP2 was fascinating.
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