Today I will be counting down the top 3 best humanoid robots that you can actually buy. 3. This robot is called DARwin-op (ROBOTIS op) a humanoid robot created in Virginia tech's and mechanics laboratory and in association with Korean manufacturers ROBOTIS. This robot can be used at home but its main purpose is to be used as an educational device. The creators of this robot made it an open platform and encourages you to build and add more features to the robot to make it better, the price for this machine is 9600 dollars which is a lot of money. 2. The robot in the number two spot is called DARwin mini which is also a robot from the Korean manufacturers ROBOTIS this robot stands at height of 26 cm and is also used for educational purposes but it can be programmed to do what ever you want. The price for this robot is only 499 dollars. 1. The robot in the number one spot is called Nao Evolution, this robot was created by a French company named Aldebaran Robotics which created this amazing piece of technology. This robot has been created for many purposes like education, babysitting, etc, Nao can also preform complex tasks like humans. Nao is also an open platform robot where kids and people who are interested in robots can ad features to Nao. The price for this robot is $7500.
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I have been fascinated with robots since I was a little boy, I remember my cousin had a "Robo-sapien" it was a small robot which could be controlled remotely. I remember back then it was the coolest thing I ever saw until I went to the toy store and saw a raptor robot that could walk and even roar. After, my dad showed me the most amazing thing ever" Asimo" a robot that could walk, talk, and even help you with chores! When my dad showed it to me my mind was blown to bits. and since then I was always fascinated in robots and how they worked. By the age of eleven I loved robots so much that for my birthday my dad bought me a lego mindstorms EV3 robot it was a programmable brick that came with two motors, a touch sensor ,and a color sensor I spent a lot of time trying to program this once I even tried to program it to draw a picture, but sadly failed. I was also interested in building Lego's I always loved to create machines like a car with steering and a differential. Today I'm still interested to see how robots work and how to actually make one.
What is the purpose of a robot Robots are divided into two different groups, Industrial and Domestic. Both types have existed since the 1950's, these robots are suppose to make life easier for all the people everywhere. Now people have become very dependent on these robots for doing chores and other jobs that would replace peoples hard labor, and it does it much quicker and more efficiently.
Industrial robots mostly work at factories that build cars,computers, planes, boats etc. These robots have made it much easier for people that work at factories and make it much faster and more efficient. These robots are there because sometimes some things like screwing ten bolts on to something with the exact same tightness would not be easy for people but is very easy for a robot. Domestic robots are there for every day use like for doing chores that take a lot of human energy and time, but now that these robots are around, it makes life easier for all people. They are also used for entertainment, like little toy dogs that can walk around and sing or small looking humanoid robots that can talk. How they evolvedPeople have tried creating robots for the last 200 years, the first robots ever created where the Automatons created in the Medieval times and the Renaissance they where mostly used to impress pesents and lower class people. In 1494 Leo Nardo Da Vinci designed the first humanoid robot, even though nobody knows if it was ever produced. The robot was designed to sit up right, wave its arm, move its neck, and its jaw. In 1645 the first calculator was created by Blaise Pascal to help his father with taxes, this contraption was called the Pascaline.
In the 18th century miniature versions of the Automatons where created for the wealthy families as a toy for their children. In 1709 Jacques de Vaucanson created the first working duck which could flap its wings and eat grain. In 1801 Joseph-Marie Jacquard created a programmable loom which could print designs on a fabric. in 1948 W. Grey Walter created two turtle robots which could find their charging station. In 1973 Ichiro Kato created WABOT I whic was the first Anthropomorphic robot in the world! it could walk, see and even have a conversation. |