The Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa gave birth R1-your personal humanoid, a humanoid robot designed to operate in domestic and professional environments such as the ward of a hospital or at home. Iit, with the involvement of private investors, will build by 2017 the model of production and large-scale commercialization. R1-your personal humanoid has an all Italian design, weighs about 50 kg and is made to 50% in plastics and for the 50% carbon fiber and metal.
R1-your personal humanoid is the little brother of the famous iCub, the humanoid robot with the face of a child for research. It is 125 cm tall and can stretch up to 140, maybe to grab an object on a shelf with his hands in the shape of pliers and covered with artificial leather; has no legs but wheels, has a white body and slender and his face is a dark display that can take stylized expressions, such as an emoticon.
A-1 is one of a kind: hardware and software together been developed and has been designed by studying the human reactions during the interaction, its artificial intelligence is developed directly sull’umanoide and has a newly developed body the shape of which among other things has been studied in collaboration with some psychologists. R1 was carried out by a team of 22 young scientists and technicians IITs led by Giorgio Metta, and by a group of designers and experts in entertainment and illustrators in Milan and Barcelona.
TOWARDS THE BIODEGRADABLE
“R1 is our first humanoid platform cheap designed for wide distribution in homes,” and in the future will be made of biodegradable materials “as new-generation plastics. From the beginning for these off future consumer products must provide for sustainability, to avoid mistakes as were made with the electronics today very difficult to be disposed of at the end of the cycle. ” He said the scientific director of Iit Roberto Cingolani talking about the new R1 – your personal humanoid – born in the Institute’s laboratories. “We are discussing with IBM Italy of some intelligence packages that should allow you to use R1 at home as a domestic helper to help people in need such as the elderly, in the hospital or in the workplace – said Cingolani -. The idea is that in fact is a kind of computer that is associated with a dedicated software application. In the future these machines will work in the cloud and will be ever more efficient. However R1 is born with the idea of being used every day. “
A WIDE RANGE OUTLOOK
The R1 route – your personal humanoid is to be used as an interface for some services, provide information or help in a shopping center or an airport or train station then develop useful applications in the home. He said Giorgio Metta, iCub and R1 dad, Scientific Deputy Director of IIT. “The commercial prospects are immense – he said Metta presenting R1 -. This is a “blue ocean” market, all to be developed. R1 will cost several tens of thousands of Euros and then gradually come down in price. In the meantime will have all those applications useful for the domestic support “. R1 now has a prototype: “it is necessary to make a phase of industrialization producible – said Metta -. This means selecting the components that are manufacturable on a large scale. And so it is available for all you need an industrial-type funding, connect to the productive reality because we can not do it as a research center. “
The IITs has invested in his story about seventy million euro for develop a series of robotic platforms ranging from iCub Walkman to plantoid and surgical robotics – said Metta -. From this research are filiate rehabilitation as prosthetics and exoskeletons. R1 is another of these children, a service robot which can be used in domestic situations. ” R1 in 10 years “will be built with new materials, the built-in electronic part in the structure, newly designed battery and advanced features. Always connected to the Internet, it will be the center of the Internet of things. R1 will follow us, will be with us and will help us because, unlike other electrical appliances does not remain. ”
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