The HRP-4C robot was not programmed to please families like Asimo. Nor will she save/destroy humanity like a Terminator. Rather, she’s taking the fashion world by storm as Tokyo’s next top model.

HRP-4 stands nearly 5 feet tall and has 34 moving joints, with seven in each arm, as well as fingers than can move more precisely than earlier HRP models. Each arm has a load capacity of about 1 ...

The robot in undeniably slow but also strikingly accurate, ... The prototype demonstration shows the robot, dubbed HRP-5P, picking up a piece of plaster board and screwing it into a wall.

The HRP-5P humanoid robot, created by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology institute, can do simple construction tasks like install drywall.

If Japan's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute has its way, construction workers might be a thing of the past. Researchers have built HRP-5P, a humanoid bot that can handle a ...

Eventually the HRP-2 could be the more widely seen robot. Kawada intends for it to serve as a shared research platform, developing an open API so that other engineering teams can create software to ...

Most robots that are labeled "humanoids" still have a common problem: they can only walk in a slow, mechanical and chopping motion. Even HRP-4C, in my opinion the most realistic humanoid ever ...

HRP-2, you see, takes obstacles and makes them into tools; uses them to its advantage. Take this video example. In it, HRP-2 uses a table to assist with a sitting down motion.

Designed to look like an average Japanese woman, an awkward girlbot named HRP-4C will make its catwalk debut at a Tokyo fashion show. Japan's latest supermodel--a robot - CNET X ...

The HRP-4C, a bot made to resemble a typical 19-29 year old Japanese woman, ... Still, watching the robot perform as part of a real human dance troupe is pretty amazing. Check it out for yourself in ...

The robot walked on a narrow plank for dramatic effect: The HRP-2 has been around for a while ( more than 13 years ), but has been updated to handle disaster response. Here’s a video from 2009 ...

We know her as a pretty creepy cyber-model, a bridezilla, and a singer. And now cybernetic human robot HRP-4C, brain child of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...