The robot, modeled on the hero of the popular animated series, consists of 200 parts made of metal, plastic and carbon fiber
A large humanoid robot, modeled on the hero of the popular Japanese animated series from the 70's - "Mobile Suit Gundam", showed its capabilities. At a presentation held in the Japanese city of Yokohama, the robot was walking, kneeling and gesturing.
The robot is over 18 meters high and weighs 25 tons, and its construction began in 2014. The robot consists of 200 parts made of a mixture of metal and plastic reinforced with carbon fibers.
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AIST’s video (Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) shows a prototype robot made to work on construction sites in situations where there is a shortage of human labor. The robot is undoubtedly slow, but extremely accurate, which indicates where and in which jobs humanoid robots can replace humans in the future.
A demonstration of a prototype robot, called "HRP-5P", shows how he lifts a piece of plasterboard and puts it on the wall. This type of flexible humanoid robot is designed so that it can reproduce human movements in complicated construction environments.
Industrial automation is rapidly changing the face of modern mass production. Although much of the work done on the factory line is becoming more and more robotic, human workers are still often necessary for many tasks. Aircraft assembly, for example, is one of the areas that resists robotic assembly that has taken over the world of car manufacturing. This is because human workers are still needed to move "a little further", or "stretch" when something needs to be reached and connected within different areas that larger fixed robotic systems simply cannot reach.
On-site construction is another field that has similarly resisted light robotic automation, with human labor still relying mostly on on-site construction. Automated brick-laying robots and massive robotic 3D printers certainly offer interesting possibilities for the future of construction. However, it still takes people in the end to put it all together.
This new Japanese research is not largely focused on eliminating the need for human workers, but instead sought to address a problem unique to the island on which it is located. Announcing the new robot, the researchers wrote: "With declining birth rates and an aging population, many industries, such as the construction industry, are expected to run into serious problems in the future due to labor shortages, so it is urgent to address this problem. for robotics. "
The HRP-5P is by no means the most advanced robot we've seen (the Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics probably shows a larger dynamic range). However, by directly designing robots that can perform heavy physical work using similar human movements, AIST indicates a future where robots can take on "more detailed and demanding" construction jobs.
Is this possible, that they made such a big robot, I can't believe.