Shoulder-Sitting Robot Means You’ll Never Be Alone Again - arnoldtherstion1975

Everyone has years where, as much as you love your friends, you'd rather have some alone time. Everyone also has days where, as a great deal as you enjoy your alone time, you'd much rather be with your friends (WHO went tabu and saw a movie without attractive you–sigh). Of course, with something like Yamagata University's shoulder joint golem, IT doesn't tight you have to be totally alone.

The MH-2 telepresence robot sits on your shoulder, and buttocks constitute controlled aside another person at whatever time. Once a friend has master, it will become an avatar of sorts for them. The shoulder bot has two flexible arms, along with a foreland and consistency, and information technology can eventide simulate a person's breathing to make information technology as realistic as possible (although I don't know how realistic a shoulder-mounted bot can Be). It likewise has small cameras on either face of its drumhead.

Hither's how the robot whole works: Your friend would use a 3D TV (or the most immersive display you could get over) while standing in front of something capable of motion capture, like a Kinect. When you invest the MH-2 on your shoulder, your friend can (virtually) come along for the rall. The golem will mime every effort that your friend makes. It throne also talk if you want to jaw with your admirer. It's equivalent a robotic version of a hologram.

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Unfortunately, to make the robot actually realistic, you have to carry about a backpack, which hosts its 22 actuators and servos tht control different wires–they work a little like puppet strings. It's a pretty heavy-sounding and bulky bag, sadly, and it doesn't look like much fun to carry.

Researchers enjoin they are working happening making the dish more cloggy. Quiet, the massiveness isn't such a big deal if you're nonmoving at home looking for ways to cast out that loneliness.

[via IEEE Spectrum]