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Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kansai Science City, Japan. Photo: STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Robovie-II can help customers locate and carry products at a Kyoto supermarket. This fellow is eager to offer suggestions. For example, it might suggest you to buy some lettuce when you want some broccoli to make salad.

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University of  Tokyo’s Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory. Photo: Erico Guizzo

This HRP-2 is learning how to wash a cup

Researchs in the lab are using a combination of human motion-capture and video game style simulation to teach the robot how to handle different dishware and uncertainties. Researchers are focusing on failure detection. For example, if you take a cup away when the robot is trying to grasp it, it will adjust its motions, instead of stay with its original calculation.

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Korea Institute of Sciene and Technology (KIST), Seoul. Photo: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

Mahru is toasting and serving a piece of bread

A human wearing a sensor suite performs tasks while a motion tracking system records the action. The recorded action will be played back by the robot. If the environment changes, the robot will adjust its action accordingly.

The above information was from Spectrum.IEEE.org