World’s Robots Converge at Japan Robot Fair

by Ryan | 29th November 2007

Nearly 1,000 industrial and service robots are being showcased at Japan’s International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. The robots range from simple pet like robots that react to your movements, to extremely sophisticated pain feeling robots that allow you to practice dental or medical procedures. Need a ping-pong partner? How about a baby robot that teaches you how to breast feed? There are robots for practically any occasion or application. In the video below you’ll see a very life-like “dental patient” humanoid, which actually took me a few seconds to realize it was not real. It feels pain and reacts accordingly. With a $600k+ price tag, you’ll probably feel the pain too.

Source: Reuters


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