Wever R1
A Korean company, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, or ETRI, created and presented the Wever R1 in 2005 as a way to observe and research the human-robot’s interactions and as a wireless home networking system, which comprises of sensors and a PC that are implanted. The Korean firm aims to market these technologies that can be used for all types of service robots.
Equipped with stereo cameras, this robot is capable of recognizing faces and expressions, and position tracking. It utilizes wheels to roam around and can differentiate different hand gestures when playing the rock-paper-scissors game. The Wever R1 can recognize speech, but the company reports that after three years of research, this feature is still unreliable.
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Electric and Telecom Research Inst. (ETRI)
