UXbyDesign.org » Japan http://www.uxbydesign.org A User Experience Blog by Bradley Hebdon Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:16:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers http://www.uxbydesign.org/2009/04/28/wearable-agrirobot-power-suit-helps-aging-farm-workers/ http://www.uxbydesign.org/2009/04/28/wearable-agrirobot-power-suit-helps-aging-farm-workers/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:41:38 +0000 Bradley Hebdon http://uxbydesign.org/?p=502
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    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 in producing the suit.

    With Japan’s aging population, this solution seems to present a transition between human workers and what will ultimately become fully robotic ones.

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    • ]]>     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.

    The researchers say they envision the tech being used in caregiver robots for the elderly, and for anyone wanting a companion who doesn’t answer back in a verbal fashion. However, it does have the ability to respond with either the two finger or one finger salute, depending on its regional configuration.

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