Robot set the table

Twendy-One is a white alien-like robot. It is capable of supporting people (elderly) are located up and out of bed, talking and help prepare breakfast for double his skillful hands.

Twendy-One, a proof that robots are more like humans, was introduced November 27 in Tokyo.

Twendy-One, named after the 21st century version of a previous robot (Wendy), has two soft hands and fingers that stretch lightly enough to help people sit and stand up. Flexible movements respond to human touch.

The new robot is 1.5 meters tall, slightly below the average height of Japanese women, but weighs 111kg. The long arms and face look like a big pea, making the robot look like the ET character.

Waseda University has spent seven years and a multi-million dollar grant to combine high technology, including speech and 241 pressure sensors in each hand wrapped in silicon, for inclusion in the robot. soft and flexible.

Twendy-One can take bread without breaking it, place it on a plate and take tomato sauce in the refrigerator if required, after greeting the patient in the morning and having them eat well. Shigeki Sugano, a professor at Waseda University and president of the Twendy-One project, hopes to commercialize the robot by 2015 for about $ 200,000.

Twendy-One uses chopsticks (Photo: News.xinhuanet.com)

Twendy-One grabs bread cleverly (Photo: News.xinhuanet.com)

Twendy-One feed tray (Photo: News.xinhuanet.com)