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'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the robotic harvesting and pruning suit, sought to make it industry and task-specific in order to generate cost savings [...]

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Robot developed with non-verbal communications skills

Posted on 30. Oct, 2007 by Bradley Hebdon.

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have developed a humanoid bot that can use communicate using gestures. The 187-pound robot stands about five feet tall and uses a 3D vision system to recognize gestures like pointing and bowing and determine their meaning — and then use the same gestures when appropriate.

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