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INNOVATRIX ISSUE 3| DECEMBER 2020

RISE OF THE

ROBOTS ASIMO - ROBOTS: YOUR GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF ROBOTICS Herbert televox is the first-ever humanoid Robot built-in 1927 by Roy Wensley.

FIRST MODERN ROBOT

BALLIE

MARS CAT Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements

CHANGE THE WORLD

ELEKTRO AND SPARKO

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INTO THE UNKNOWN

WORLD Artificial Itelligence is about replacing human decision making with more sophisticated technologies.

- Falguni Desai

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ARDUINO UNO CREATIVITY

is thinking up new things,

INNOVATION is doing new things, ISSUE NO. 3 | DECEMBER 2020 02| FEATURED PHOTO

-You loved me and your love made me--human.� ― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

Honda

Motor

Corporation's

Asimo,

with

its

humanoid appearance and ability to walk and climb stairs, has been dubbed the world's most advanced robot. In terms of units, it is estimated that by 2020 the worldwide stock of operational industrial robots will increase from about 1,828,000 units at the end of 2016 to 3,053,000 units

ASIMO's Motion: Walk Like a Human ASIMO has hip, knee, and foot joints. Robots have joints that researchers refer to as "degrees of freedom." A single degree of freedom allows movement either right and left or up and down.

ASIMO has 34 degrees of freedom spread over different points of its body in order to allow it to move freely. There are three degrees of freedom in ASIMO's neck, seven on each arm and six on each leg. The number of degrees of freedom necessary for ASIMO's legs was decided by measuring human 03| FEATURED STORIES

joint movement while walking on flat ground, climbing stairs and running.

- Herbert televox is the first-ever humanoid Robot built-in 1927 by Roy Wensley.

– Herbert Televox

The main objective of this robot is to lift

telephone

calls

and

operate

switches depending upon the signals received. Initially, it could not speak, later it learned a few simple sentences.

This

Humanoid

connected

robot

electrically

was

not

to

the

telephone but was able to hear as much as a human can. It had a sensitive microphone close to the receiver and with this microphone, it listened and responded to actions based on sound and pitch. It had a humanoid appearance by the basic cardboard cut that was added to the robot. Herbert Telelvox paved the way to create “Elektro the moto-man” in 1937, which was considered as the first humanoid robot by many people.

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THE BEST WAY TO

PREDICT THE

FUTURE IS TO

INVENT IT - Al an Kay

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WRITTEN BY DI KO ALAM HATODG

Earliest robots as we know them were created in the early 1950s by George C. Devol, an inventor from Louisville, Kentucky. He invented and patented a reprogrammable manipulator called "Unimate," from "Universal Automation."

For

the

next

decade,

he

attempted to sell his product in the industry, but did not succeed. In the late 1960s, businessman/engineer

Joseph

Engleberger

acquired Devol's robot patent and was able to modify it into an industrial robot and form a company called Unimation to produce and market

the

successes, industry

robots.

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Engleberger as

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his

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Academia also made much progress in the creation new robots. In 1958 at the Stanford

industrial applications. Shakey could wheel

Research

around the room, observe the scene with his

Institute,

Charles

Rosen

led

a

research team in developing a robot called

television

"eyes,"

"Shakey." Shakey was far more advanced than

surroundings, and to a certain degree, respond

the original Unimate, which was designed for

to his environment. He was given his name

specialized,

because

of

movements.

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his

move

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ELEKTRO AND SPARKO WRITTEN BY CARLOS AGASI Westinghouse engineer Joseph Barnett made a splash at the 1939 World's Fair with a 7-foot, cable-controlled metal man that could walk, speak 77 words, and even smoke cigarettes. The next year Barnett gave the hulking android a best friend: a robotic dog that seemed to bark and sit in response to Elektro's commands.

He even appeared in a movie, “The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair”. His companion was a robot dog that appeared with him in the 1940 fair. One of Elektro's pet lines was, “My brain is bigger than yours.” At 25 kg, it certainly was.

Elektro wowed audiences, but you'd be wrong to dismiss it as simply a publicity stunt. The engineers who developed Elektro were pioneers, attempting to turn science fiction into reality by developing a voiceactivated robot.

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Above Country: South Korea Creator: Samsung.

- At CES 2020, Samsung introduced its small rolling robot assistant that is intended to assist the users around the house. The robot is designed to understand, support and react to the user’s needs around the house.

According to sources, Ballie includes on-device AI capabilities that enable it to be a fitness assistant and a mobile interface that seeks solutions for people’s changing needs.

Samsung says Ballie utilizes AI to be a security robot, a fitness assistant, a tool to help seniors connect with smart devices in their homes, and it can even be a friend to your kids and pets.

In an onstage demo, Ballie followed Samsung consumer electronics division CEO H.S. Kim on the stage by rolling around, seemingly by using the camera to track Kim as he walked across the stage. Ballie also gave cute little robotic chimes in response to a couple of commands from Kim, and it even rolled right into Kim’s hands when he called for it.

Rolling around and following people seems to be all that Ballie can do at the moment. But in a promotional video aired shortly after the demo, Samsung showed a bigger vision for Ballie that could someday make it more of an at-home assistant. Ballie opened the blinds in its owner’s home, turned on the TV so that the house’s dog could have something to watch, and summoned a Roomba-like vacuum to help clean up a mess.

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CREATOR: ELEPHANT ROBOTICS COUNTRY: CHINA

MarsCat is the world’s first bionic pet cat developed by Elephant Robotics, aiming to be a home robot, a robotic pet to comfort you and surprise you. Just like a real cat, MarsCat is fully autonomous.

No extra instruction is needed to control its movements.It is fully responsive and has sensitive interactions. It can feel your touch, hear your voice, see your face and play with toys.

Every MarsCat is unique from its eyes, body to personality, its personality will change according to the way you pet it. With powerful quad-core Raspberry PI, you can also program it easily and give it endless possibilities.

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Su ur re en na a S IV CREATOR: UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN

COUNTRY: IRAN

A little over a decade ago, researchers at the University of Tehran introduced a rudimentary humanoid robot called Surena. An improved model capable of walking, Surena II, was announced not long after, followed by the more capable Surena III in 2015.Now the Iranian roboticists have unveiled Surena IV. The new robot is a major improvement over previous designs. A video highlighting its capabilities shows the robot mimicking a person’s pose, grasping a water bottle, and writing its name on a whiteboard. The robot shows several human-like capabilities such as grasping a water bottle, writing its name on a whiteboard, mimicking a human’s pose. The robot relies on a whole-body motion controller that continuously adjusts its posture to avoid falls. Also, the custom force sensors on the bottom of its feet assist the robot In stepping over uneven surfaces. It can do so by adjusting the angle and position of each foot.

Surena IV is not a highly dynamic machine like Atlas, the famously agile humanoid from Boston Dynamics, it relies on a whole-body motion controller that continuously adjusts its posture to avoid falls. In its overall design, Surena is probably more comparable to humanoids like UBTECH’s Walker, Honda’s Asimo, Pal Robotics’ Talos, KAIST’s Hubo, and AIST’s HRP-2, although these robots have already publicly demonstrated a broader range of capabilities.

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CREATOR: INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION

COUNTRY: INDIA

Vyommitra is a female humanoid robot unveiled by the Indian Space Research Organisation this year. The robot is said to be capable of doing multiple tasks and is expected to fly in the first unmanned flight as part of The first human spaceflight programme (Gaganyaan), which is scheduled for later this year. The robot is said to speak two languages and can also mimic human crew.

Launched by Parel Workshop of Central Railways, Jivaka is a remote-controlled

rover that works as a virtual healthcare worker. This med-bot performs several activities related to the patient’s care, such as measuring blood pressure, oxygen saturation level, the temperature of the body, among others.

CREATOR: PAREL WORKSHOP

COUNTRY: INDIA

CREATOR: HELLO ROBOT

COUNTRY: USA

Stretch RE1 is a lightweight and low-cost mobile robot that is equipped with a telescoping arm. It is said that the robot is designed for researchers developing robot applications to help people in homes as well as workplaces. The developers designed this new kind of robot for autonomous operation, and it interacts with people by using a low mass, contact-sensitive body. The robot is composed of a gripper, a computer, sensors and software including Python interfaces and ROS integration.

BY NAIO TECHNOLOGIES

This robot helps you during weeding and hoeing chores in order to increase your profitability while respecting the environment. It is designed to improve working conditions and reduce your daily workload. Oz is entirely autonomous but you can also guide it to go wherever you need.

EMIEW

by Hitachi has the physical capabilities, such as agile movement and obstacle avoidance, EMIEW will lead the way in creating robots of the future that can cooperate and coexist with humans.

EMIEW developed to support people's everyday Lives.