Sunday, March 9, 2014

Japan : the Robot Kingdom

          The technology in Japan has one of the greatest innovations around the world. One of the reasons for this is their desire to make and produce machines that will help the human in every aspects of our life, in the field of robotics. In one of the mountains of Fuji, there is one person successful in making humanoids. Like in Japanese animations, Kogoro Kurata has made a large humanoid robot he named as Kuratas. Kuratas measured about 4 meters,with movable limbs all controlled by the person inside him.

         Another proof of Japan’s innovation is Asimo, made by Honda, in Japan. He recognizes the people’s faces registered in his program,he can understand multiple utterances, he can to multitasking, and He gives way to people. All of these functions are because of his artificial intelligence. He can think on his own without human interference. Their mind is based on actual human brain, how we think and how we respond to things. He has sensors in his hands also based on real human hands. He can sense the hardiness of every object he handles and touches so he can adjust on how hard will his grip will be on the object. He can open a very tight lid of a bottle and put the liquid in a very soft or fragile paper cup. His invention and improvement was led by Satoshi Shigemi. He led Asimo’s innovation for 16 years now.

        Asimo was once compared to petman, who was made by the US. Starting from their roles, they were different.  Petman is made for military assistance and combat. While Asimo is very flexible. He can work in different types or kinds of field.  While in terms of functions, still for me, Asimo is the better one. He can still do some things that Petman can’t.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSaUs0_A_4

This is just one of the proofs that Japan is really the leading country in terms of robotics. Just like what Schodt told 10 years before: “Japan is the Robot kingdom of the world.”

sources:

Sabavinoc, Selma, 2014. Regarding Robot cultures | Japan Society | http://www.japansociety.org/robot_cultures. Mar. 3, 2014

Rafferty, Kevin, 2014. Beware, Robots are coming | Japan Times| http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/01/27/commentary/beware-the-robots-are-coming/#.UxxLJIaQZLA. Mar. 3, 2014


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