Your future living room, now
The University of Tokyo has opened an exhibition showcasing a robotic "living room of the future," another example of plans to make robots part of daily life in Japan.The living room has sensors in the walls and floor to track and respond to users. Sit down by the desk and the robot lamp automatically swings over to illuminate your book. Summon the robot valet for tea -- here a modified version of AIST's Promet humanoid -- and not only does the automaton pour and serve the drink, it washes up afterward. Professor Tomomasa Sato of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology says robots should be able to wash bento lunchbox trays as well.
Check out the NHK TV report here.
posted by Tim at 8:54 PM
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Gah! The link is broken.
When you mentioned a robot valet for tea-serving, what I thought would be fab is to build the entire livingroom in retro-Japanese syle; for instance, the tea-serving robot could be fashioned after a karakuri. The room motif would be rice paper and shoji screens, etc etc.
Maybe that's what it's already like, since no-one can view the clip! Judging by the rather AIBO-esque-looking robot you've posted, I highly doubt it, though...
There was a cool clip, but NHK has wiped it from its news page. Professor Sato told me he is going to do another demo in February.
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