Archive for the ‘Robots’ Category

Most of girls out there love facials, but what if the next facial you got was done by a hi-tech robot? In Japan, the technology to do this already exists thanks to the Tokyo’s Waseda University. The university developed WAO-1 (the Waseda Asahi Oral Rehabilitation) at the first place just for relieving the symptoms of disorders such as xerostomia, jaw arthritis and swallowing disorder. Treatments that apply “just the right amount of pressure” without excessive force have been realized by using existing technologies developed for robots according to the project leader Atsuo Takanishi, but is now being considered for beautician to use it in beauty spas.

Shock no. 6: Wall Climbing Robot a.k.a Spiderman Robot: Do  you know what is ‘Spiderman’? He is one of the fictional superheroes that was having ability to walk or crawl on the wall. ‘Spiderman’ is what we called him. Do you think it’s impossible for us to walk on the wall? Here’s the idea: Recently, Hideji Nakata professor from Hokaido tech college Japan has developed a wall walking or crawling robot.