Japanese Robotics & Inventions     Last updated on 2011     7     15, a full moon day;

Usage	Year	Remark
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social robot teddy bear; PC via USB; expressing emotion with body language, gestures, speech, ... ;	2010	CEATEC JAPAN 2010; high-tech sensor; ICT technology; 300+ movement patterns;
VIKI, Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence;	2008	Part Ⅰ, Class Ⅰ Impossibilities 7: Robots, PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, MICHIO KAKU, 2008; I Robot movie;
1st manned flight by battery power;  July 16, 2006 NHK news;	2006	Aeronautical invention;  Tokyo Institute of Technology;  1 minute;  5M above ground;  391M distance;  Compare to 1903 Wright brothers;
"Humanoid face emotional expression receptionist robot" ;  Canon's usage: Automatic Facial Expression Recognition System;	2004	Conversational robot with artificial human face and human emotional expression;  University of Tokyo;
Asimo Ukon	2004	Human alike;  Human beings' function oriented robot;
Central Pattern Generator / Numerical Perturbation;  CPG/NP	2004	Method, developed by Fujitsu;  Robot arm movement;
HOAP, Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform	2004	Humanoid with CPG, NP, and ...;
Natural prosody speech synthesis	2004	Method, developed by Fujitsu;
PaPeRo, personal robot =	2004	Speech translation: Japanese to English, English to Japanese;  Dog alike;
(Perception Action) Integrated Humanoid =	2004	Dynamic Walking Pattern Generation;  University of Tokyo: www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/h6/H6_H7.html;  Perception ≡ (Nama ( ) (...) (Rupa) ... ) Action ≡ (Nama () (...) (Kamma (...) (physical kamma)) ) ;  Also see: Nama for Humanoid;
Rescue robot =	2004	Semi manual;  Control algorithm and logic still need to develop;  NHK news;
VisiOn =	2004	Pronounce Vi Si On;  Semi automatic;  Soccer playing skill by remote control;  Human's knowledge still needed;  Vision recognizes by 360° sensor;  NHK news;
		microphone free voice input for robot;
Asimo	2001	The first human alike;
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