Elumotion /BRL Humanoid Robot Cooperating with a Professor - Tea or Hot Chocolate?

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One of the most sophisticated robots created in the UK made its public debut in London in Feb'09 with a game of rock-paper-scissors. Now, in its current second home at BRL, Berti is co-operating with the Professor about the type of drink. The humanoid robot, created and build by Elumotion, a robotics firm based in Bath, and programmed by Bristol Robotics Laboratory. It was created to mimic human gestures as part of a study into how humans react to life-like robots. Berti has already been programmed to play the game rock-paper-scissors and a sensor glove worn by its competitor means the robot can even tell whether it won or not.

Dr Graham Whiteley, co-director of Elumotion said, we are working towards the design of future humanoid robots that will be intuitive and natural for people to interact with.
Robots like Berti could be used in the development of prosthetic limbs for people who have been in car accidents or to carry out extremely dangerous jobs such as land mine clearance.
Craig Fletcher, also a co-director of Elumotion, said Berti cost around £200,000 in parts and technology to build but the effort in terms of man hours and scientific research was incalculable.
He also said, Berti was certainly a challenge to build. To mimic human gestures a robot must be both lightweight and powerful.
It was certainly a challenge for us but the result is a robot which is as sophisticated as anything else out there.

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Science & Technology

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• torso
• Humanoid
• Advanced
• Prosthetic
• Next
• generation
• Elu2-Arm
• Robotic
• Haptic
• Teleoperation
• cutting-edge
• technology
• Robot
• telemedicine
• i-robot
• ironman
• BERTI

[AutoTerminator]

That robot is SEEEXY!

[LiquidxEviL]

lol

[JamesCorrales]

Congratulations. Is really wonderful your Job....!!!!!

[dailyforman]

give him a cup of tea and ask to give it back :DDD

[h19v91]

And the next best thing to watch according to youtube is a bristlebot how to video.

[CognitiveNetwork]

turns it upside down and spills all the coffee... short circuit, and there goes your 50'000 dollars.

[Motoroad181]

Science is amazing -3

[mcsdaver]

cool

[mrbunnylamakins]

Ok again nice video, but seriously my Speak&Spell had way better voice than that robot.

[bigollameo]

Amazing.