IURO
IURO (Interactive Urban Robot) – Is a part of the EU-STREP project IURO (Interactive Urban Robot), supported by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, ICT Challenge 2 Cognitive Systems and Robotics.
The goal of the project is to develop and implement methods and technologies enabling robots to navigate and interact in densely populated, unknown human-centred environments and retrieve information from human partners in order to achieve a given navigation or interaction goal. Iuro can approach humans and ask them for directions to help it navigate around cities while acting in a “socially acceptable manner,” but at IROS, the robot was randomly (and hilariously) shifting back and forth between expressions of happiness, disgust, and astonishment.
You might also like
Robot Fish That Can Bleed
This year researchers released their first attempt at a revolutionary robotic “fish”, done before, right? Yes, but this one’s special, it’s defining characteristic is that it has been equipped with
The Shadow Hand
The Shadow Hand is the closest robot Hand to the human Hand available. It provides 24 movements, allowing a direct mapping from a human to the robot. The Shadow Hand
Disney’s New Robotic Stunt Double
Disney land has always over the years been known for their contributions to the technology with increasingly impressive versions of their character animatronics. Despite this nobody could have predicted an