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Internet Robot

Out of many types of humanoid robot available in the market, I found it very impressive. It has a variety of capabilities. It speaks, recognizes human voice, walks, dances, searches and reads aloud emails and web-site information for a user, and does more, being controlled over the internet as far as wireless broadband environment is secured for the robot. With a video camera build in, it has image recognition capability as well. It is small (33 cm height) and light (1.5 kg), but could work as an avatar located in a distance place and provides a pleasant escape from the routine of everyday life. Imagine a jazz band of four robot players! You can see a video movie clicking a picture you can get here.

More importantly, the robot capability can be continuously enhanced and grown by users, who might be used to pc-software development, because the application development software interface is opened for that purpose at no cost.

A type number of the robot is SPC-101C, designed and supplied by Speecys Corporation founded on December 6th, 2001 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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