Robot Project: Prototype Robot Exhibition
To be held for 11 days on June 9-19 at the Morizo and Kiccoro Exhibition Center
A grand exhibition of 63 prototypes
Cosponsors: Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
Network robotics, RT middleware (9 projects)
- Robot with advanced auditory capabilities for human interaction
- Companion robot that follows individuals by multimodal interaction
- Multitask robot system that utilizes intelligent information infrastructure
- Hyperrobot that serves people by integrating single-task domestic robots
- Errand robot
- Seven-degree-of-freedom double-arm unit and double-arm mobile robot
- Superdistribution and combination robot system utilizing wireless links
- Content-oriented robot that uses robot content
- Environmental robot
Experiential robots (7 projects)
- Robot that decorates ceramic tableware and drinkware
- Portrait-drawing robot
- Partner robot with artificial tongue
- Future science encyclopedia and multifingered haptic interface robot
- Mutual telexistence robot that utilizes retroreflective projection
- Robot for encountering the microscopic world
- Cyberassist meister robot
Outdoor skilled-work robots (7 projects)
- Boarding robot for roaming natural landscapes
- Ubiquitous robot
- Caddy robot
- Search and contaminant recovery robot for response to nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism
- Manually controlled heavy-duty robot to assist rescue operations
- Robot that searches through rubble
Special-environment robots (9 projects)
- Robot that evaluates duct interiors by impact-elastic waves
- Pacemaker robot for marathons
- Golden Shachihoko robot
- Autonomous snow-plowing robot to support life in snowy regions
- Super-high-speed batting robot that can hit fastballs of up to 160 kph
- Amphibious snake-type robot
- Acrobatic airship robot
- Data gathering double-kite-type robot, humanoid robot for a comfortable lifestyle
- High-performance flying robot
Medical and welfare robots (10 projects)
- Emergency rescue robot
- Superdetail human body robot for medical skills training
- Three-dimensional visual perception and display apparatus for office, home, and medical robots, and microhand for medical and surgical use
- Remote microsurgery robot
- Six-degrees-of-freedom robot for rehabilitation of upper limbs including wrists
- Handicap-assistive barrier-free robot interface system with high learning ability
- Semiautonomous robot system for self-care by disabled people
- Wearable robot for musclular support: Muscle suit for upper limbs
- Power augmentation robot
- Robot suit to assist human movement
Partner robots (8 projects)
- Canine robot as a mobile platform that exhibits high physical capabilities outdoors in urgent situations
- Android that interacts with people and nature
- Cooperative framework for heterogeneous robots
- Physical communication robot to cheer up children
- Robot for scenario research that is capable of authoring
- Next-generation communication robot
- Communicating heterogeneous robots
- Dance partner robot
Performance robots (6 projects)
- Six-legged walking robot that uses reinforcement learning (autonomous development of motion control)
- Self-configurable modular robot
- Artistic robot
- Limb mechanism robot
- Three-leg wheeled type robot
- Crawling and jumping soft robot
Humanoid robots (7 projects)
- Humanoid probe robot
- Interaction middleware for humanoid robots
- Software that generates impact motions for the HRP-2 robot
- Animatronic humanoid robot
- Musculoskeletal humanoid robot with a large-degree-of-freedom flexible spine
- Humanoid robot for research on dynamic motion
- Bipedal humanoid robot as a simulator of human motion
