Plastic Pals - At ICRA 2012 Dr. Jun Ho Oh (KAIST, Hubo Lab) gave a revealing presentation on the development of his full-size humanoid robots. The latest, HUBO 2, represents 10 years of research and is now commercially available to anyone with $400,000 to spare (around a dozen units have already been sold to universities in the United States, Singapore, China, and South Korea). It’s great to sneak a peek inside his lab, when so many other humanoid projects are so secretive. It can be viewed in its entirety (about an hour) courtesy of TechTalk.tv, but we thought we’d break it down into some of the more exciting bits for you here.
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