Can you imagine a robot hand reaching into the depth of your pocket to look for a coin of your choice from amongst many similar ones? Well, the roboticists have now developed a robot arm that provides the robots with a sense of touch.

Object recognition for robots

Ever imagined while walking in a park, a robot comes to you and waves his hand to greet you? No matter how strange it seems; scientists have developed a robot named Simon who can actually read human reactions.

The invention
Andrea Thomaz's lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology is the birthplace of Simon. The scientists are working and experimenting with him. The robot is designed to explore the possibilities of communications between humans and robots.

Man and machine has further come closer with the latest invention of an extremely cool robot, which has weird but realistic features.

This hottest invention in the field of robotics has been made by the Japanese researchers, who have named this robot as Geminoid DK.

Geminoid DK resembles Henrik Scharfe
Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University and his team at Japan's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) in Nara, owes the credit for launching the Geminoid series.

Geminoid DK is the third invention of this series. Basically, Geminoid series consists of a complete line of androids, designed by the team of Hiroshi Ishiguro.

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