Wednesday, October 03, 2007

SONY QRIO

QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity", originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot developed and marketed (but never sold) by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m tall and weighed 7.3 kg.
QRIO is capable of voice and face recognition, making it able to remember people as well as their likes and dislikes. A video on QRIO's website shows it speaking with several children. QRIO can run at 23 cm/s, and is credited in Guinness World Records (2005 edition) as being the first (and fastest) bipedal robot capable of running (which it defines as moving while both legs are off the ground at the same time). The 4th generation QRIO's internal battery lasts about 1 hour.

QRIO was the one of the most advanced humanoid robot, but Sony decided to kill the project. Why...?




Dancing


Running


Rollerskating


Kicking a ball


Throwing a ball


Conducting the orchestra


TV Ad

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thats pretty cool..

All they have to do now is put a pretty face, some tits and a pu*#y on these bots and we got a new sex-bot-doll!
Actually, we dont need a pretty face... but talking dirty would be a cool feature...
PHESP.

Selph said...

I reckon they killed it cos they couldnt afford to fund research into this field whilst they are losing money on other electrical appliances. Sad really cos I think they were onto a winner!

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