Thursday, May 14, 2009

Robot At Fashion Week



If someone ever thought that catwalks are meant for humans only,then think again.

A humanoid robot was there to steal the show at annual japan fashion week in tokyo.Released yesterday it is named HRP-4C.It can imitate human facial expressions and body movements to some good extent of humanoid grace if not human.

The humanoid robot which moves around with help of Battery powered motors was developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)at a cost of $2 million.

Japan,The world's greatest manufacturers of robots are proposing to devolep more and more humanoids closely imitating human features which may give a helping hand to the disabled and elderly people