Top ten robots

Top one robot

The car extracts pollution from the air

The 2057 Toyota Biomobile is the ultimate solution for pollution. The car extracts pollution from the air and utilizes it as an energy source. Now that’s what we call cool! This is the solution of air pollution,but often keep quiet from the oil companies.


Top two

Robot that can ride a bike

Murata Boy, which weighs just 5kg and is 20cm tall, can travel at 76 cm per second and is controlled by a wireless computer link.

Engineers said the most difficult part of the design process was getting Murata Boy to balance on the bike.

They solved the problem by installing special sensors on the robot, which allows it to judge its angle and speed, and then make balance adjustments. The whole point of developing the robot which rides a bicycle is to show the technology of balancing in the environment, where keeping your balance is tough," said project engineer, Shigeki Fukunaga.


Top three
Ridable robot
The coolest of all is this four-legged ridable robot called R7, which features a plush seat you can sit in while it walks around under your control. The company has enormous range featuring robots shaped like animals and it even has designed a robot shaped like a girl! The robot-cum-vehicle is priced at $5,250. So, if you love to ride animal creatures like horses, raptor and dinosaur, then you can have as many rides as you want!! Besides, its comparatively lot more cheap a price for a functional robot

Top four
Guide robot
Toyota demonstrates its new tour guide robot at an exhibition held on 27th August, 2007 in Toyota city. The robot is designed to greet visitors.
Another similar robot called violin-playing robot is also developed by Toyota, violin-playing robot has 17 flexible joints and mechanical fingers. Measuring 1.5m tall and weighs 56kg, the robot can achieve vibrato on a violin similar to that created by humans

Top five
Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot (BEAR)
According to Associated Content, Vecna Robotics has built a prototype of for the U.S. Army. This robot has been designed to find, pick up and rescue wounded soldiers in dangerous areas. In fact, the Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot (BEAR), which for the moment is remotely controlled, can safely carry a human (or other payload up to 500 pounds) for about 50 minutes. For a robot which will have to go to combat zones, it looks surprisingly humanoid to me. Let's hope it will not be shot while evacuating a soldier from the battlefield.

Top six

robot clock

It’s both a wristwatch and a clock, as the robot snaps off the watch bezel and stands up on its own. He’s got little movable arms and a keyring that looks

like a pair of headphones. He comes in two colors and more functions.

On our vigilant lookout for everything robot-y, we’ve spotted this nifty little transforming robot watch. It’s both a wristwatch and a clock, as the robot snaps off the watch bezel and stands up on its own.

Humanoid Robot

Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv and Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Computer Science are working with an international consortium led by the University of Plymouth on ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots), which begins on 1 March.Professor Nehaniv said: “Our approach is that robot will use what it learns individually and socially from others to bootstrap the acquisition of language, and will use its language abilities in turn to drive its learning of social and manipulative abilities. This creates a positive feedback cycle between using language and developing other cognitive abilities. Like a child learning by imitation of its parents and interacting with the environment around it, the robot will master basic principles of structured grammar, like negation, by using these abilities in context.”

Robot Development Is Child's Play

The six projects include one from Imperial College London that will explore how ‘mirror neurons’ found in the human brain can be translated into a digital application. ‘Mirror neurons’, discovered in the early 1990s, trigger memories of previous experiences when humans are trying to understand the physical actions of others. A separate team at UPF Barcelona will also work on iCub’s ‘cognitive architecture’.

Robots (a nurse) that can pretend to chat with you are on the way
. You may be fooled. Robots that can genuinely chat with you are a long way off, because consciousness, personality, humor, language, even common sense are extremely difficult to replicate. A big reason why robots are so hard to appraise realistically is that sci-fi movies have filled our heads with vivid pictures of what robots are capable of. But robots are a lot like time travel--easy to describe, hard to do! So where exactly are we? I’d say the whole field of robotics is in a state of reassessment. All the early dreams are in ruins. The AI (Artificial Intelligence) crowd is realizing with a shock that ordinary humans are immensely complex and talented--replicating us is akin to building a city on the moon. Replicating even lower life forms is way beyond us at this point.

Cheapest robot
Walkman, a 12.7-cm (5-in) tall robot, was built from the remains of a Sony Walkman costing US$1.75 (£1.15) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, in 1996. In tests the robot struggled to get free when its legs were held without being programmed to do so, and without making the same movement twice.

Smallest robot humanoid
The smallest humanoid robot in production is the Be-Robot, which measures 153 mm (6 in) high and is able to walk, kick and perform push-ups. The robot was manufactured by GeStream (Taiwan) and demonstrated at the Global SMEs Convention on 6 September 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Fastest selling entertainment robot
Sony's AIBO Entertainment Robot ERS-110 (aibo means "pal" or "partner" in Japanese) retails for US$2,066. When Aibo made its first appearance on Sony's website on May 31, 1999, 3,000 were sold within 20 minutes. AIBO is 11-in (27.9cm) tall and can recognize its surroundings with a built-in sensor. It can be programmed to perform tricks or "play" on its own. On June 1, 1999, 2,000 AIBOs became available over the internet in America and the initial rush to buy the robotic pet puppy caused web servers to crash.

Japan developed a tiny robot that can ride a bicycle.

Murata Boy, which weighs just 5kg and is 20cm tall, can travel at 76 cm per second and is controlled by a wireless computer link.

Engineers said the most difficult part of the design process was getting Murata Boy to balance on the bike.

They solved the problem by installing special sensors on the robot, which allows it to judge its angle and speed, and then make balance adjustments. The whole point of developing the robot which rides a bicycle is to show the technology of balancing in the environment, where keeping your balance is tough," said project engineer, Shigeki Fukunaga.