MUON THE HUMANOID ROBOT IS OUR IDEAL BEST FRIEND
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June 20, 2010We don’t speak German, and machine translation continues to be an intermittent and annoying bundle of failure, so bear with us on this one as we try to cobble together what exactly is going on here. This is Muon, the humanoid robot who is apparently being developed in Berlin by Frackenpohl Poulheim at the ALEAR Laboratory of Neuro Robotics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Like other humanoid bots, Muon is about the size of an eight year old child so as not to creep out his human companions by being too threatening, and his design, while reminiscent of previous robots we’ve seen, is pretty original. It’s actually hard to tell what stage of development Muon is in — certainly many of the photos we have spied were concepts — but we’re going to keep our eyes peeled for him moving into the future. If you hit up the source link, you can check out a video of Muon’s development. There’s one more amazing shot after the break.
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