日本の変な動物
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
又あいぼ
友人のBäver(海狸)は大学であいぼと遊ぶことになりました
妬ましいです高すぎますけど前の記事のにアレックもあいぼと遊びたいです
妬ましいです高すぎますけど前の記事のにアレックもあいぼと遊びたいです
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
nyaau to iu neko
It's not exactly news, but appearently Business Design Laboratory has licensed the Hello Kitty (ハローキティ) character for a robot.
The Hello Kitty ROBO MODEL 4200-0 costs 450 000 ￥ to purchase if I've understood it correctly, which isn't very likely as I'm just guessing. Only available in Japan though.
The cat stands, or rather sits, 52 cm tall with a mass of 6.2 Kg.
Hello Kitty speaks from the heart, Hello Kitty Robot speaks from the feet.
In the feets there is a speaker to allow the cat to speak with you, I have no idea just how profficient it is, but the examples are accurate. As if they'd pick out innacurate examples...
The voice is, I haven't seen the TV-series but I doubt that she sounds that in the movies. It is probably a cheap TTS engine.
Still at the feets, is a "pickup sensor" (持ち上げセンサ) (I translate however I want...).
Moving up, the arms are rotatable, the robot has feeling in the arms/hands and will really enjoy holding your hand. I think the robot can feel if you rotate the arms but not move them itself. I never claimed to be good at this.
Still at arm height, but on the mainframe is an ultrasound sensor enabling it to sense when "people" (althought it probably senses anything that moves) comes closer. Not so impressive, but nonetheless a good thing is the power switch.
The head probably contains the most expensive sensors. Starting of the eyes are 2 CMOS cameras (1 for each eye). Appearently it can recognize faces as it can use the name of the person.
On the head there is a ribbon, containing a microphone, but what else? Another touch sensor. When the robots hears a voice the ribbon will glow.
The head can also be rotated, 70 degrees to the left or right, and 5 degrees down or 7 degrees up. There's feeling on the head so it'll notice touches and if you rotate the head. As with the arms, the cat enjoys the attention of being touched.
Finally there's the whiskers. Remember how the cat enjoys being touched? At the whiskers there's 2-colour diodes, red and blue. When the cat is happy, the whiskers will be red, when it's sad the whiskers will turn blue. What a useful feature.... Diodes are cheap though, and after feeding my Sega 16 bit reverse polarity I'd rather have the added safety of a cheap diode or two to ensure that only correct polarity will be fed. My system survived the reverse polarity, probably because the engineers placed diodes to prevent reverse polarity.
While it's a nice piece of hardware, I don't really get what it's good for. Anyone fill me in?
The Hello Kitty ROBO MODEL 4200-0 costs 450 000 ￥ to purchase if I've understood it correctly, which isn't very likely as I'm just guessing. Only available in Japan though.
The cat stands, or rather sits, 52 cm tall with a mass of 6.2 Kg.
Hello Kitty speaks from the heart, Hello Kitty Robot speaks from the feet.
In the feets there is a speaker to allow the cat to speak with you, I have no idea just how profficient it is, but the examples are accurate. As if they'd pick out innacurate examples...
The voice is, I haven't seen the TV-series but I doubt that she sounds that in the movies. It is probably a cheap TTS engine.
Still at the feets, is a "pickup sensor" (持ち上げセンサ) (I translate however I want...).
Moving up, the arms are rotatable, the robot has feeling in the arms/hands and will really enjoy holding your hand. I think the robot can feel if you rotate the arms but not move them itself. I never claimed to be good at this.
Still at arm height, but on the mainframe is an ultrasound sensor enabling it to sense when "people" (althought it probably senses anything that moves) comes closer. Not so impressive, but nonetheless a good thing is the power switch.
The head probably contains the most expensive sensors. Starting of the eyes are 2 CMOS cameras (1 for each eye). Appearently it can recognize faces as it can use the name of the person.
On the head there is a ribbon, containing a microphone, but what else? Another touch sensor. When the robots hears a voice the ribbon will glow.
The head can also be rotated, 70 degrees to the left or right, and 5 degrees down or 7 degrees up. There's feeling on the head so it'll notice touches and if you rotate the head. As with the arms, the cat enjoys the attention of being touched.
Finally there's the whiskers. Remember how the cat enjoys being touched? At the whiskers there's 2-colour diodes, red and blue. When the cat is happy, the whiskers will be red, when it's sad the whiskers will turn blue. What a useful feature.... Diodes are cheap though, and after feeding my Sega 16 bit reverse polarity I'd rather have the added safety of a cheap diode or two to ensure that only correct polarity will be fed. My system survived the reverse polarity, probably because the engineers placed diodes to prevent reverse polarity.
While it's a nice piece of hardware, I don't really get what it's good for. Anyone fill me in?
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