A robot can recognize its creator, electronic arms to assemble at breakneck speed and even a humanoid that plays ping pong: the latest in robotics is shown in Tokyo in an exhibition involving about 200 companies.
The International Robot Exhibition, held every two years in central Tokyo Big Sight, is the largest global event of an industry standard-bearer for Japan, leaving half of the world's industrial robots.
How could it be otherwise, a humanoid robot was asked to cut the ribbon to access the building, which presented an appearance worthy of a science fiction movie.
Dozens of robots, for most industrial processes, displayed their skills before the large audience, while representatives of 192 companies involved proud explaining their features and improvements in electronic wits.
Companies such as Toshiba and Mitsubishi, alongside lesser-known names as ABB Anybots or led to Japan's capital from huge machines to perform processes automotive to tiny unmanned aircraft for precision operations.
Among the most attention in the first day of the fair were humanoid robots, which in recent years have improved their "view" and "touch" thanks to advances in digital optical and electrical sensors development.
In the laboratories of Japan's Kawada Industries, for example, has gone "Hiro", a device with cameras in the eyes and palms of hands, able to recognize colors and shapes and moving through time operating system real.
"Hiro," thanks to these features, is able to identify a face, "Efe said one of its creators, Maksim Radev, while the robot stared at him and was still watching his every move.
"Hiro" is just over five feet, weighs 70 kilos and is capable of holding 20 kilos on her arms and grasp objects of up to two kilos in each hand.
"It can be easily controlled using the Windows XP, making it very accessible," said Radev, who said that this robot has no industrial use, unlike his fellow "New Age", of similar appearance.
Another company, Anybots, exhibits a robot drone, slightly larger than a domestic vacuum cleaner, designed to act as a "supervisor" at a distance in the era of offshoring.
"The robot can be for example in a factory in Japan while the other side of the world someone in the production department is in charge and you can see how production goes through the eyes of the robot," he told Efe Daniel Casner, one their creators.
While many of the mills are for industrial use, their presence in other areas is growing: According to the Japan Robotics Association, estimates that the market for robots dedicated to the service sector will involve 15,000 million dollars in 2015.
Thus, the fair is taught geniuses like Ping Pong Robot, an android who almost always wins, or "Herby", a form of baby doll designed for the elderly so tightly against his chest, allowing the sensors to The doll has implemented the measure her pulse and even perform an electrocardiogram.
He was also the improved version of "Stop", a seal stuffed full of sensors to behave like a real animal, moving, making sounds and responding to stimuli.
This robot has an end "and pediatric treatment," according to its makers, who contend that the seal robot increases the communication capacity of the holder and reduces stress.
It is expected that at the end of the fair, be given the award for the Robot of the Year, an award in the past have found a genius inventions capable of cleaning an office building, moving from floor to floor or a little mini-robot 15 cm capable of performing up to 200 shares.
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