Robot Award 2007: nominees
Recently, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan announced the list of finalists, nominees for the Robot Award 2007 robot competition. The nominees (nine) are divided into three categories: auxiliary robots (servant robots), industrial robots and social robots. sector.
The Robot Award was established last year by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan to provide favorable conditions for the further development of robotics and to identify the most interesting and useful developments in this field. The results of the competition will be known at the end of December of this year.
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Auxiliary robots
MR Image-Guided Surgical Robotic System
A robotic surgical system developed by several companies (among them Hitachi and MIZUHO), as well as the universities of Tokyo, Waseda and Kiishu. The main advantage of the system is more accurate and verified movements during operations than that of a human surgeon. Despite the fact that the Surgical Robotic System is currently still in the finalization stage, with its help (in April and September 2007) successful operations were performed to remove cancerous tumors.
LEGO Mindstorms NXT
In principle, this is not a robot. This is a robot designer that includes various parts of Lego Technic, from which you can make a fully functional robot. Such "designers" already exist in educational institutions around the world (totaling more than 25,000 pieces), and more than 100,000 children from 35 countries took part in the LEGO robot creation competitions this year.
HOAP
The Fujitsu HOAP (Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform) is a 60-centimeter mini-humanoid robot equipped with a microphone, a camera and sensors to determine its position in space. A serious advantage of the robot is a completely open architecture (information about the "iron" stuffing and the software used is freely available). This allows you to use HOAP as a “test site” for writing new algorithms. Since 2001, Japanese universities, research laboratories and companies have acquired 129 such robots.
Miuro
The name Miuro stands for Music Innovation based on Utility RObot technology, which can be translated as “innovations in music based on applied robotics”. Developed by ZMP Inc., Miuro is an audio robot that plays music from an iPod or a remote computer (wirelessly). But that is not all. The robot can move behind the person from room to room, and dance to the rhythm of the melody being played (of course, the speakers are attached). Soon, more precisely, in December 2007, this handsome will be on sale.
Robotic Blood Sample Courier System
The courier system Robotic Blood Sample consists of several mobile robots working as a team to ensure the delivery of blood and to perform courier tasks in hospitals and laboratories. These robots collect tubes with blood tests, take them to laboratories and return test samples after testing.
Industrial robots
M-430iA Robot Arms
Developed by FANUC Ltd., the industrial robotic line M-430iA Robot Arms is capable of “grabbing and screwing where necessary” up to 120 parts per minute located on the treadmill of the assembly line. Moreover, the “hands” with which the pretentious movements are carried out are not “afraid” of acid-based cleaning agents, which is important, since the line is used for the production of foodstuffs and pharmacological preparations, and therefore requires cleanliness. Since October 2006, more than 150 such systems have already been sold.
Pharmaceutical Container Replacement Robot
This autonomous bot is capable of transporting and placing boxes with drugs used in pharmacological production. The maximum container weight is 200 kilograms. The robot is freely oriented in space, can be reprogrammed and, according to the manufacturer, is able to increase production efficiency by 30%.
Social sector
Endovascular Surgery Simulator - EVE
EVE Robot (Endovascular Surgery Simulator) is a patient robot designed to conduct training for surgeons. This thing emulates blood (blood flow, pulse, the presence of blood cells, etc.), which allows experiments without the use of animals. It is enough to set the necessary parameters or to conduct a computer scan for the purpose of emulation and that’s all: the training and research site is ready.
Fire-Fighting Robot
This robot-fireman, controlled remotely, can penetrate where a person does not move. The relatively small size of the robot makes it ideal for fighting urban fires. 8 cameras that provide a panoramic view, a control system that allows you to deploy up to ten such machines at the site of a fire, and the ability to pour out up to 5 thousand liters of water per minute on a fire makes the Fire-Fighting Robot a very attractive acquisition for any fire service.
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The Robot Award was established last year by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan to provide favorable conditions for the further development of robotics and to identify the most interesting and useful developments in this field. The results of the competition will be known at the end of December of this year.
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Auxiliary robots
MR Image-Guided Surgical Robotic System
A robotic surgical system developed by several companies (among them Hitachi and MIZUHO), as well as the universities of Tokyo, Waseda and Kiishu. The main advantage of the system is more accurate and verified movements during operations than that of a human surgeon. Despite the fact that the Surgical Robotic System is currently still in the finalization stage, with its help (in April and September 2007) successful operations were performed to remove cancerous tumors.
LEGO Mindstorms NXT
In principle, this is not a robot. This is a robot designer that includes various parts of Lego Technic, from which you can make a fully functional robot. Such "designers" already exist in educational institutions around the world (totaling more than 25,000 pieces), and more than 100,000 children from 35 countries took part in the LEGO robot creation competitions this year.
HOAP
The Fujitsu HOAP (Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform) is a 60-centimeter mini-humanoid robot equipped with a microphone, a camera and sensors to determine its position in space. A serious advantage of the robot is a completely open architecture (information about the "iron" stuffing and the software used is freely available). This allows you to use HOAP as a “test site” for writing new algorithms. Since 2001, Japanese universities, research laboratories and companies have acquired 129 such robots.
Miuro
The name Miuro stands for Music Innovation based on Utility RObot technology, which can be translated as “innovations in music based on applied robotics”. Developed by ZMP Inc., Miuro is an audio robot that plays music from an iPod or a remote computer (wirelessly). But that is not all. The robot can move behind the person from room to room, and dance to the rhythm of the melody being played (of course, the speakers are attached). Soon, more precisely, in December 2007, this handsome will be on sale.
Robotic Blood Sample Courier System
The courier system Robotic Blood Sample consists of several mobile robots working as a team to ensure the delivery of blood and to perform courier tasks in hospitals and laboratories. These robots collect tubes with blood tests, take them to laboratories and return test samples after testing.
Industrial robots
M-430iA Robot Arms
Developed by FANUC Ltd., the industrial robotic line M-430iA Robot Arms is capable of “grabbing and screwing where necessary” up to 120 parts per minute located on the treadmill of the assembly line. Moreover, the “hands” with which the pretentious movements are carried out are not “afraid” of acid-based cleaning agents, which is important, since the line is used for the production of foodstuffs and pharmacological preparations, and therefore requires cleanliness. Since October 2006, more than 150 such systems have already been sold.
Pharmaceutical Container Replacement Robot
This autonomous bot is capable of transporting and placing boxes with drugs used in pharmacological production. The maximum container weight is 200 kilograms. The robot is freely oriented in space, can be reprogrammed and, according to the manufacturer, is able to increase production efficiency by 30%.
Social sector
Endovascular Surgery Simulator - EVE
EVE Robot (Endovascular Surgery Simulator) is a patient robot designed to conduct training for surgeons. This thing emulates blood (blood flow, pulse, the presence of blood cells, etc.), which allows experiments without the use of animals. It is enough to set the necessary parameters or to conduct a computer scan for the purpose of emulation and that’s all: the training and research site is ready.
Fire-Fighting Robot
This robot-fireman, controlled remotely, can penetrate where a person does not move. The relatively small size of the robot makes it ideal for fighting urban fires. 8 cameras that provide a panoramic view, a control system that allows you to deploy up to ten such machines at the site of a fire, and the ability to pour out up to 5 thousand liters of water per minute on a fire makes the Fire-Fighting Robot a very attractive acquisition for any fire service.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16833/
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