Thanks to cheap chips, robots will be as popular as netbooks

Fujisoft, Japan has launched a robot that is capable of balance and mobility thanks to the Intel Atom CPU and Ubuntu Linux operating system.

In the 21st Japanese National Robotics Competition, Fujisoft carries a 39.8 cm tall and 1.56 kg tall robot .

This robot moves and travels quite flexibly thanks to 20 degrees of freedom (Honda's ASIMO robot has 26 degrees of freedom). In robotics, degrees of freedom are the ability to move left, right, up or down.

These degrees of freedom work like human joints, allowing the robot to move as well as having optimal flexibility. Fujisoft machine has 2 degrees of freedom on the neck, 3 on each arm and 6 on each leg (ASIMO has 2 on the neck, and 6 on each arm and leg).

Fujisoft's human-shaped robot is available in two colors, white and red, but not announced yet

A group of LEDs on the robot face will describe the state of the robot. Fujisoft's robot is also equipped with facial recognition and speech recognition technology. Fujisoft robot has good balance and mobility, even on bad terrain.

At the show, this robot demonstrated the ability to dance, balance on one leg very well. Fujisoft has such balance due to its high motion and powerful internal processing unit.

The Fujisoft Robot is powered by an Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.66 GHz, running Ubuntu with a Linux kernel and Wifi connection. Atom chips are cheap chips that drain the cheap netbooks to the market. From the new application of Fujsoft, it is likely that in the near future, users will have access to various kinds of entertaining robots, which will be helpful.

Manufacturers have also added the Eclipse tool to the robot, the software suite that makes it easy to build applications. The combination of Wifi and Eclipse gives Fujisoft the ability to run weather applications and news updates over the Internet.

Fujisoft has not announced the price and name of this tiny robot. The company only confirmed that the robot was on the market in 2010. Many predicted that the robot is affordable.