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December 16, 2005
ASIMO vs. QRIO
No less than a week after Honda's announcement of their new robot ASIMO - Sony today announces their new and improved QRIO robot.
So the Robot wars between the two Japanese giants are officially on!. Let's recap;
This is Honda's ASIMO, with its increased brain power and improved mobility, ASIMO can now work in a real environment serving up drinks and cleaning up. ASIMO is known the world over to be first compact robot with a full range of human like movement, including running and balancing itself - something really hard for roboticists to simulate.
This is Sony's new and improved QRIO. The bot has a received a major overhaul in software allowing it to react faster and to control it's new arms which allow it to pick up things much heavier than itself. The real improvement here is QRIO's new third eye that allows it to see 180ยบ around him. The third eye also improves QRIO's ability to multitask by allowing it to keep an "eye" on multiple projects at the same time. Sony QRIO is known as the first true bipedal entertainment bot with its uncanny ability to keep rhythm and dance! Not only that, but QRIO can talk and translate almost anything you throw at it!
So there you have it, you got the Honda ASIMO geared towards work and Sony's QRIO geared towards entertainment and knowledge. Which do you prefer?
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Comments
This is just simply amazing. I am more on the side of QRIO as far as the abilities of it but the ASIMO is more friendly looking
Posted by: Davin at August 3, 2006 7:12 AM
I believe a robot geared towards to work would be more preferable since, in the case of ASIMO, working with people would make it (or make him?) more friendly looking.
What about self consciousness, will that ever be possible?... I wish so
Posted by: Rolando de Castro at September 6, 2006 7:55 AM