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Geminoid of Hiroshi Ishiguro

2013-02-26

| 2000s, 2010s, Adaptive, Advertising, Entertainment, Information robots, Interactive, Manipulation robots, Medicine, Programmable, Research

Geminoid is an android that looks and moves like its prototype with very high level of resemblance. The first model of this robot (was developed in 2006), Geminoid HI-1, was the cybernetic twin of its creator, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro from Japan, who works at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR, based in Kyoto) and Osaka…

Devices of Heron of Alexandria

2012-05-06

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| 0050s, 0060s, 0070s, Advertising, Art, Entertainment, Information robots, Other complex robots, Research

Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria (lived and worked in Alexandria in the second half of the first century A.D., Roman Egypt) invented the first automatic doors, automatic puppet theater, vending machine, quick self-charging crossbow, steam turbine, automated scenery, the device to measure the length of roads (the ancient “taximeter”), etc.[1-3] Heron of Alexandria…