Looking for a house maid who can be relied upon, indeed, quite difficult. The experts in South Korea try to provide solutions to bring agile robots that perform various housekeeping. What are the abilities?
Robot named Mahru-Z has a number of capabilities that deserves thumbs up. Various household chores such as cleaning, washing clothes, heating the food, get a cup of coffee, and so able to do.
Quoted from AFP, Tuesday (19/1/2010), Mahru-Z has a body like a human being, equipped with a swivel head, arms, legs and six fingers plus a three-dimensional vision to identify the tasks that need to be addressed.
“The most prominent of Mahru-Z is the visual ability to recognize objects, understand the tasks to be done, then complete these tasks,” said You Bum-Jae, head of the robot center in Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
“This robot can recognize people, able to turn on the microwave, washing clothes, fetching sandwiches, cups and various other objects,” added You.
It took about two years to create a robot that has a height 1.3 meters and weight is 55 kilograms. However, unfortunately not yet certain when Mahru-Z will be mass produced for sale to the market.
| Title | : | Mahru-Z: House Maid Robot |
| Category | : | Robotics News. |
| Tags | : | House Maid Robot, Mahru-Z, robot helper, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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