Video Friday: Unnecessarily Large Metal Robot Reads Books
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 26 of June , 2009 at 4:30 am
It’s big, it’s metal, and it reads! It’s named Ninomiya-kun, and it’s made out of 25 kilos worth of aluminum, because… Well, because aluminum is shiny, or something. The robot has two giant camera eyes which can read the text out of a book in some kind of (also aluminum) pagey turny thingy. The backpack contains the image recognition software, which is currently able to differentiate between over 2000 kanji, hiragana and katakana. This, I’m guessing, is why the bot has to have such huge eyes: to be able to discern small differences between characters while reading at speed. It’s not exactly the most portable of bots, though… Someone should just get the poor thing a Kindle already.
VIA [ Pink Tentacle ]
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