Manoi the Humanoid Robot

Soon to take of as the next big thing in Japan, is 'Manoi' AT01 the robot. The name, 'Manoi', comes from the word humanoid, or rather inspired by (thats what the article I read says).
Here's a link to the article

'Manoi' is a self assemble robot for the home. It's not even out on the maket yet, but there's a pretty big market for these household robots. 10,000 and the company that makes them, Kyosho Corp. says that thats more than enough

The cool thing about 'Manoi' is, according to the article I read to get this info, you don't have to be a scientist to assemble the thing.
It took the reporter a mere eight hours to assemble, ha ha ha only eight hours!!
But he did of course have the help of Kazuho Shiroma. this guy's a robot expert who has been know to put three of these bad boys together in one session.

The price of Manoi is $1,260, which is about this 993.3775 much Euro. (thank you free currency coverter!)

There has been alot of robot activity in japan lately, but what makes this one really cool is, you can download the actions for it ie. walk, sit, wave, run etc.
and you dont't neccessarily have to program it yourself.


Here's a pic that explains where Manoi got his/her/its name.

Watch a video of manoi

Initial research and all links came from the bloggers of slashdot.org

The pics were taken from Here the Kyosho companies website, who design and manufacture 'Manoi'

And the Video Is thanks to another Blogger on 'slashdot' who did a bit of online research to find it, so cheers to that blogger.


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