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Humanoid Robot Motion Software

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Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (AIST) announced that Humanoid Research Group of AIST had developed new software, "Chorenoid", to directly generate and edit the whole-body motion of a humanoid robot. Its news release says, "This software automatically and instantaneously converts a sequence of humanoid poses (key poses) input by the user to a dynamically stable movements, enabling a user without knowledge of robotics to generate various humanoid movements easily in a similar manner to the generation of a computer graphic character's motions. This technology is expected to contribute to the creation of new content industries using humanoid robots."


The following video demonstrates a dancing cybernetic humanoid robot HRP-4C.





It is expected that the software will create a new market for TV, PCs, games and other entertainment areas.


Source: AIST's news release


1/9/11
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