Mar 4, 2016
Italy: Meet the humanoid bot made to tackle emergency situations
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: habitats, robotics/AI
Needs lots and lots of work still.
The humanoid robot Walk-man showed of some of his life-saving capabilities in Genoa Thursday, as the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and University of Pisa develop the hardware for disaster response operations.
The 185-centimetre-high (72 inch) robot is a result of the four-year research program which started in October 2013 aimed at assisting or even replacing humans in civil damaged sites including buildings, such as factories, offices and houses.
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