Philips Homerun, comes another robot vacuum cleaner to compete for domestic cleaning

Robotics, analysis Txaumes on March 15, 2011 | 11: 00 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

We have excellent domestic aspiradoras-robot in the market. First were the iRobot Roomba, and then came Korean alternative paths, the Hom-Bot LG and Samsung Navibot. It is now Philips which gets on this robotic ring with the Philips Homerun.

Very similar to the other automated vacuum that we have seen, the Philips Homerun also integrates multiple cameras and sensors (up to 20, according to the Dutch) to map the House. Philips her also has developed a systematic mapping software that makes to, to find an obstacle, tour several times its outline a very short distance to hurry to the maximum cleaning.

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In the latest Philips showroom, the functioning of the Homerun not seemed to us very different from the Roomba or the Navibot. Does it seem to something less erratic and more thorough than the models of Samsung and LG when making his round.

What does seem only of the HomeRun is its ability to 'jump'. The vacuum cleaner has several modes of operation. In the way carpets, the Homerun can clean surfaces of this type with fibres of up to two centimeters in height. Just as it gets on the carpets, the Homerun is capable of Eaglets above cables and obstacles up to 1.5 centimeters in height. Although not have been able to monitor during the enough time to make an analysis, at the time that we saw if he avoided quite effectively the cables we Alliance you on his way to bad milk.

The HomeRun takes an hour to clean up some forty square meters. Your deposit is quite generous and can accumulate up 0.6 liter. The vacuum cleaner is also programmable from his remote control. Philips said that its software will be updated periodically. A US connectionB can introduce new software patches. The philips homerun goes on sale in April at a price of 549 euros.

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Geminoid-DK, have not seen a more realistic robot

Robotics Jesus Leon 7 March 2011 | 21: 05 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

The other day we sorprendíamos, which appeared a little creeps, with the Elfoid P1, a robot-teléfono in human form. Because this new robot, called geminoid-dk, engineered - how it could be another way-in Japan, creates even more astonishment. For reached enormous realism . It's the third version of androids designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, Professor at Osaka University and seems to be created for a new science fiction film.

The robot is controlled remotely and leaves in its infancy previous attempts to give realism to a robot. Imitate facial expressions and movements of impressive form. Perhaps achieved more impact to be an aspect of Western, notably resembles Henrik Sharfe Associate Professor of the University of Aalborg in Denmark, who collaborated in the creation (as well as serve as a model).

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geminoid-dk will be sent to Denmark as an object of study on human-robot interactions in different cultural contexts. In short, stand to the robot to different groups of people and study their reactions. Fear, surprise...

Here we leave you with a video to check the realism of their movements. It is the less disturbing and well managed. By the way, also recommended the Gallery of images published on the Facebook page with the progress of its creation.

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Geminoid-DK, have not seen a more realistic robot

default Jesus Leon 7 March 2011 | 21: 05 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

The other day we sorprendíamos, which appeared a little creeps, with the Elfoid P1, a robot-teléfono in human form. Because this new robot, called geminoid-dk, engineered - how it could be another way-in Japan, creates even more astonishment. For reached enormous realism . It's the third version of androids designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, Professor at Osaka University and seems to be created for a new science fiction film.

The robot is controlled remotely and leaves in its infancy previous attempts to give realism to a robot. Imitate facial expressions and movements of impressive form. Perhaps achieved more impact to be an aspect of Western, notably resembles Henrik Sharfe Associate Professor of the University of Aalborg in Denmark, who collaborated in the creation (as well as serve as a model).

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geminoid-dk will be sent to Denmark as an object of study on human-robot interactions in different cultural contexts. In short, stand to the robot to different groups of people and study their reactions. Fear, surprise...

Here we leave you with a video to check the realism of their movements. It is the less disturbing and well managed. By the way, also recommended the Gallery of images published on the Facebook page with the progress of its creation.

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