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Pics From IREX 2009

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 1:12 am

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The International Robot Exhibition (IREX) is going on in Tokyo right now, and the Tokyo office of BotJunkie would be all over it, if only we had a Tokyo office. Or, you know, an actual office anywhere. In the mean time, here’s a bunch of pics from Pink Tentacle and Times Online:

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“Data Glove,” a waldo from Shadow Robot Company

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Motoman plays with LEGOs LEGO bricks

More, after the jump.

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A prototype interactive robot from Figla

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Autonomous floor cleaning robot from Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru)

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Neko-Tencho, a cat robot developed by RT, and its internal skeleton dancing with each other

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Robockle demonstrates collision avoidance technology from CMC Technology Development Company

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Kawada Industries HIRO research and development upper body

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Korean building guide robot

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TOPIO, a ping pong playing robot by TOSY

VIA [ Pink Tentacle ] and [ Times Online ]

Comments (6)

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6 Comments

Comment by Joey1058

Made Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 10:27 am

So many bots, and still nothing to clean my house.

Comment by FelipeChoque

Made Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 4:48 pm

Definitely gonna need more images and videos of that shiny robo-girl and topio playing ping pong. =D

Comment by Evan Ackerman

Made Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 8:24 pm

Yeah, I’m definitely hoping that somebody closer to the action will come through with vids.

Comment by Andy

Made Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 10:47 pm

Yes videos please! That ping pong robot looks awesome. It’s nice to see that they made a very good effort to make it look like a human.

Comment by Thach

Made Friday, 27 of November , 2009 at 11:19 pm

OMG the first picture looks like femmebot from Austin Power. Does it come packed with machine gun “jubblies” like in the movie?

Comment by quantum_flux

Made Sunday, 24 of October , 2010 at 12:54 am

I shall call her the Silver Femmurfer.

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