Robots seem to get cooler (and yet somehow also scarier) everyday. Now two professors from Osaka University have come up with two new robots, dubbed the M3-neony and M3-synchy. The “M3” mentioned here actually stands for “Man-Made-Man”, which is probably just another fancy way of calling it a robot.
The M3-neony is used to research the development of fine motor skills, such as learning to crawl through trial and error, as well as human assistance through physical contact. It’s about 50cm tall, weighs in at 3.5kg and sports a pair of CMOS cameras for sight and microphones for hearing.
The M3-synchy is a mass communication robot that focuses on verbal and non-verbal communication, such as facial expressions and arm gestures. This 30cm, 2.5kg robot is armed with a single wide-angle lens CCD camera, two microphones, a speaker and 15 LEDs which can make the robot blush bright red.
Press release (Japanese).
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