ADSKorea_06_1_00
South Korea is working hard to set a network of robot in every house. It's already available for the new houses an option of remote control of the house and in this package will be insert an home robot. Networked robots that are scheduled to enter mass production by next year, for example, will move all around home with a camera checking for the children as home safety or relay messages to parents or teach children English. If all goes according to plan, robots will be in every South Korean household by 2015-20. As with robots and most other specific technologies, the government has had a strong hand in guiding businesses and research centers sponsoring it. It's a kind of new market that doesn't exit still now, but the government and the company as Yjin claim as promising. In late 2005, three types of Yujin robots were distributed to 64 randomly selected households. By 2007, the networked robots are expected to be on the market, the price will be around 2000$. Yujin Robot started developing prototypes in 2004 and has sold 100, mostly to universities and research institutes, said Shin Kyung Chul, the company's president. At the moment it is the leader in making small $500 robots that move around the house using sensors, vacuuming or sweeping. *** Local Caption *** Albert HUBO, an android robot, had been finished at November, 2005 by Humanoid robot research center (HUBO Lab) founded at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) . It is composed of a head, which takes after Dr. Albert Einstein, and HUBOÍs body. The head part was developed by Hanson-Robotics. Its skin is a special material, Frubber, which oftenly be used at Hollywood. The head has 35 joints, so it can impersonate various facial expressions using independent movements of eyes and lips. It has 2 CCD cameras to do vision recognition.
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