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Saturday, January 1, 2011

How the THKR-4 robot rings in the new year

I’m not certain if it is New Year’s Day by the time you read this, because I know our readers are worldwide and are in different time zones. I couldn’t think of a better time to post this than now.
This picture and attached video (see after the jump) were taken at the ROBO-ONE Humanoid Helper Project in Yokohama Japan, and it would appear that they were celebrating New Year’s Day early.
This is the THKR-4 robot, and it was able to serve at the party better than R2-D2 when he was forced to serve on Jabba the Hutt’s Sail Barge. As you can see, the THKR-4 is able to walk to the refrigerator, grab some champagne,
and pour it. It can even do those party poppers. For an encore, it does a massage.
This THKR-4 has the potential to be the life of the party, but since it moves around rather jerkily, it is like a zombie. So for now, it is the death of the party.
Of course, we all want servant robots to deal with the mundane tasks that we don’t want to do. I find this one to be rather creepy with its fake skin on its hands. I hope they don’t put skin all over it, or we’re getting into Terminator territory.
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