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June 21, 2006
Lara Robot: A Vision in Pink
A team of students at Darmstadt Technical University (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt) have devleoped Lara, a humanoid robot that has some innovative metal alloy "muscle" and "foot" technology (pictured right).
She is 130cm tall and has 38 artifical muscles, which the developers say provides her 6 degress of freedom of movement in each leg and 3 in each arm.
They add: the use of muscles instead of servo motors (See Mr DD (left) and pictured below) allows a novel robot design based on a lighter and more flexible architecture.
She was on display at this year's robotic soccer championships, a geek's verison of the World Cup, which was covered by Wired correspondent, John Borland, who describes Lara as "a 51-inch-tall vision in pink that just might be the missing link". He adds: "I fall in love with her at first sight."
Compare Mr DD To Lara
Read - Androids Dream of Soccer Glory
Read - Lara's website (TU Darmstadt)
Posted on June 21, 2006 06:55 AM | Posted to Early stage | Permalink
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