The Latin Americans are extremely talented in the game of football (soccer to Americans), but when it comes to the realm of robotics, they are behind some of the leading nations such as Japan, Korea and the US. Well, it seems that the continent has something to cheer about this time around with Professor Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano at CINVESTAV (affiliated to Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute) being proud to announce his Mex-One humanoid robot. Just in case you think that it looks familiar, it has also been called as the Geometrix.Touted to be the most advanced of its type in Latin America, Mex-One is said to be able to walk, although the video after the jump clearly shows that it remains suspended above the ground without using its two legs as a form of support. Strange, no? Perhaps it isn’t ready for real world testing just yet.
The Mex-One will be 105cm (3’5″) tall and tips the scales at 15kg (33 lbs), boasting 40 servos to have its joints move. Each hand has a trio of fingers, and the Mex-One can handle rudimentary object and face recognition, although it won’t have a pre-installed brain as all processing work will be performed on an external computer network.