The DragonFly is a flying robot created by WowWee, who is also the maker of the RoboSapien. It is designed to fly through the use of a controller and has four wings and a tail rudder. These features allow it to fly just like a real dragonfly. This robot…
UT Austin and Meka Robotics jointly developed a humanoid called Dreamer. Armed with advanced artificial intelligence, it can respond to human gestures and even emotions.
Pioneer developed a penguin shaped robot called Driving Partner Robot. It sits on the dashboard, and chirps and blinks when there is any deviation from appropriate driving.
Fujistu PFU developed a robotic prototype called Dual Display Kiosk. It has gender and age detection software using which it detects the gender and age, and displays personalized advertisement.
Homes stay garbage-free and streets are clean and swept with the humanoid robot DustBot. Supposedly the world’s first of its kind, it collects trash on request, using GPS to navigate.
Dynamaid is a service robot developed by Nimbro. It was designed to help with domestic service function research for future service robots. Dynamaid even synthesizes speech.