Humanoid robot HRP-2 Promet opens the refrigerater and picks ...
27th Jan 2006, 09:17 GMT
(AP) - Humanoid robot HRP-2 Promet opens the refrigerater and picks up a can of juice upon receiving a verbal command from a researcher during a demonstration at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 27, 2006. The Japanese institute which has been developing the robot for several years enhanced the robot's vision by adding four high-precision cameras that enable it to recognize its own location and improved a speech recognition function by adding an array of microphones on its head that enable it to respond to various vocal instructions to carry out tasks. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)