Human-Like Guide Robot that Proactively Explains Exhibits

Human-like artificial robot skin

Takao Someya et al. report the development of a f lexible, electronic skin capable of detecting both pressure and temperature, an advance that may provide robots with a humanlike sense of touch. The research team previously developed artificial skin that could sense pressure but lacked the elasticity and other characteristics of human skin. To improve the artificial skin material, Someya et al....

Ubiquitin-Like Protein from Human Placental Extract Exhibits Collagenase Activity

An aqueous extract of human placenta exhibits strong gelatinase/collagenase activity in zymography. 2-D gel electrophoresis of the extract with gelatin zymography in the second dimension displayed a single spot, identified as ubiquitin-like component upon MALDI/TOF MS/MS analysis. Immunoblot indicated presence of ubiquitin and absence of collagenase in the extract. Collagenase activity of the u...

Microvilli-Like Membrane Projections upon Endothelial Cells Proactively Form

Using Doctrines for Human-Robot Collaboration to Guide Ethical Behavior

These issues are real. Robots with lethal capabilities are being deployed in several operational theaters. And mistakes are being made. Partly they are due to “fog of war” and the difficulty for remote operators to have a good operational awareness of the situation on the ground. But, as anecdotal evidence in for example Singer (2009) points out, another reason is unclarity in command, control ...

Human-like Robot Head that has Olfactory Sensation and Facial Color Expression

The authors have been developing human-like head robots in order to develop new head mechanisms and functions for a humanoid robot that has the ability to communicate naturally with a human by expressing human-like emotion. We were able to four sensations (the visual, auditory, cutaneous and olfactory sensations) of a human’s five senses by developing WE-3RIV (Waseda Eye No.3 Refined IV). In th...