What are the 10 facts about Waseda robot-2?
What are the 10 facts about Waseda robot-2?
Wabot 2 was a humanoid robot that could read a musical score and play an electronic keyboard. It had a camera for a head and five-fingered hands capable of performing precise and delicate movements.
What are the Read the 10 facts about Waseda robot-2?
1.Creator :- Waseda University
2.Country :- Japan ??
3.Year :- 1980
4.Type :- Humanoids, Research
5.The keyboard Wabot 2 played was a Yamaha FX-1.
6.Wabot 2 could achieve a playing speed of 7.keystrokes per second.
8.The name Wabot comes from “Waseda robot.”
9.weight 90 kg | 198.4 lb
10. 3-degrees-of-freedom fingers.
HISTORY
In 1970, four laboratories in Waseda University’s School of Science and Engineering teamed up and started the Wabot project. The efforts were led by Professor Ichiro Kato, a pioneer in humanoid robotics. In 1973, the group unveiled the Wabot 1. It was the world’s first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, capable of walking with a quasi-dynamic gait. It could also speak and grasp objects. In 1980, the group started working on a new robot. In 1984, they introduced Wabot 2, a 50-degrees-of-freedom humanoid that was able to read musical scores and play an electronic keyboard.
The History of AI – WABOT-2 was built by Waseda University
This week in The History of AI – Waseda University built WABOT-2 in 1984. A follow up to the WABOT-1 they built in 1973, this robot was also anthropomorphic, but improvements were made.
The WABOT-2 was a follow-up to the WABOT-1 project. This iteration can now play music of average difficulty on an electronic organ. It was now able to converse with another person as well. In addition, it now has a camera for its head. A contrast with WABOT-1 is that WABOT-2 is considered a “specialist robot” instead of a “versatile robot”.
After the success of WABOT-1 in 1973, Waseda University picked the project back up in 1980. The project developed by a study group at the School of Science & Engineering. The goal of this project was to create an anthropomorphic robot that could perform intelligent tasks such as performing music. Thus, WABOT-2 became more specialised, rather than the versatility of WABOT-1
Similar to the WABOT-1, WABOT-2 was mainly a robotic project. Still, the WABOT-2 helped develop AI in improving the WABOT’s ability to conversate. The HAI initiative considers this an event, as with the first one, in the History of AI due to its contributions to the development of AI.
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