Posts Tagged ‘actroid’

Simroid Dental Training Humanoid, The Humanoid Robot Patient!

Written by Mostafa Dafer on . Posted in Featured, Robots & Robotics

Simroid is a dental training robot being developed by the Nippon Dental University Hospital and dental equipment maker Morita Manufacturing. Based on a prototype first presented in 2007, this robot is much more advanced, and there are plans to release the robot commercially. This robot patient is manufactured by Kokoro, who also make the Actroid line of lifelike humanoid robots. It has been developed as a training tool to improve students patient communication skills by emphasizing attitude Read more [...]

Actroid, The Human Robot, When “I Robot” is for Real!

Written by Mostafa Dafer on . Posted in Featured, Robots & Robotics

This is about 3 years ago... However, it's still awesome! It's when the movie (based on the novel) "I Robot" is no longer science fiction! Her maker, Japan-based robot maker Kokoro, says that she is supposed to give patients a heightened sense of security. Actroid-F is very realistic, but actually, she is pretty creepy, too – as you can see in the video embedded below (in which she’s replicating the operators facial expressions and body movements, this is 3 years old however...). Actroid-F, Read more [...]

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