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Telenoid
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Telenoid is a robotic communications device. You connect to the robot over the Net, and it will transmit your voice and mimic your face and head motions. It's like a mobile phone shaped like an alien.
- Creator
- ATR
- Country
- Japan 🇯🇵
- Year
- 2010
- Type
- Humanoids, Research
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Did You Know?
Telenoid was designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, who also designed the Geminoid robots. |
Telenoid will reportedly be on sale for $8,000. The research version is $35,000. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Minimal design with body intended to appear either male or female, old or young.
- HEIGHT
- 80 cm | 31.5 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- 30 cm | 11.8 in
- WEIGHT
- 5 kg | 11 lb
- SPEED
- N/A km/h | N/A mph
- SENSORS
- Camera, two microphones.
- ACTUATORS
- Nine servomotors
- POWER
- External DC power supply
- COMPUTING
- On-board ARM7 CPU for motor control. External PC for teleoperation.
- SOFTWARE
- Custom teleoperation system
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 12 (Eye: 3 DoF x 2; Mouth: 1 DoF; Neck: 3 DoF; Arm: 1 DoF x 2)
- MATERIALS
- Plastic skull, metal skeleton, urethane foam filling, and silicone or soft vinyl skin.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://hil.atr.jp/projects/kibans/res/Telenoid-resources.html
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