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Veda International Robot R&D Center is a Japanese organization managed by various Universities in Japan, they are the educated people from Kyushu University, Waseda University together with Tmsuk Co Ltd announced a concept model of the electric wheelchair “Universal Vehicle Rodem”.

The Universal Vehicle Rodem are new robot concept aiming to helps one who wants wheel chair and multipurpose vehicle in the future such as elderly and disabled people, the distribution of body pressure greatly differs between existing wheelchairs and the Rodem. Oh well a new Rodem prototype will hits the market.

The Rodem allows folks to simply lean forward slightly without the need for any back support, which the R&D Center says will let people get in and out of the vehicle more easily, and with less assistance from care-givers, users take a seat from the front side of the chair and lay back, and the load is focused on the back and waist as if being carried by someone, while the height of the seat can be changed between 380 and 700mm.

The container of the electric wheelchair help users sit on the burden as of in the rear, and the load is dispersed on the burden, a panel in front of the upper body and parts below the knees as if living being carried on someone’s back. End result, user sense less weight on their body. Research does as accurately until become aware of when a wheelchair is used by an elderly or disabled person has to go through seven processes, sitting up on the bed, leaning forward, leaving the bed, turning his or her back to the wheelchair, sitting on the seat, sitting up on the seat and moving backward, all of its or seven conditions above, the wheelchair it self processes, the care-giver has to sustain the weight of the driver, straining the waist. If walk appropriate plan.

So far result at obtain only for three processes, which are sitting up on the bed, leaning forward and leaving the bed. And the Rodem size same as of a normal wheelchair, 1,220 (L) x 690 (W) x 700mm (H) of the dimensions with the weigh is about 100kg.

Who uses the Rodem can convenience control speed, if wish for go around the office block can choose the speed on high speed mode for 6km/h, medium speed mode for 3.5km/h and low speed mode 1.0km/h to forward movement. But backward movement can go on 3km/h. The two main wheels of the Rodem are independently driven by a control valve type lead battery. Users can run the wheelchair for about four hours per charge.  Veda International Robot R&D Center plans to sell the new wheelchair and announce in autumn this year.

Sorry, two weeks almost, we don’t posted new content in AMJ Gadgets Magazine photos and videos, but now we are worked again, to posts on photos and videos features. Well, therefore we enclose some between electronic gadgets photos which have come into electronic gadgets news during last weeks.

Collins America announces new Mini DisplayPort HDTV tuners

Collins America has posted, they announced a new Mini DisplayPort LCDs, HDTV tuners on CinemaView site, in the 24-inch LCD, which packs a full 1080p resolution, a 2ms response time, a 1,000:1 static contrast ratio, four USB ports, and company give the price at $499, available in October.

While in the all new CinemaView 47, which is future to double as both a TV and Personal computer monitor, and certainly packs that same 1080p resolution, along with four USB ports, a 4ms response time, a 4,000:1 contrast ratio, and a considerably higher $1,499 price tag and company will release in January.

Not only that, Collins has what’s more unveiling its new $399 CinemaView TV device, which packs dual HD tuners, both Mini DisplayPort and HDMI outputs, picture-in-picture support, and inputs for up to four split HDMI sources.

Fujitsu’s sleek FUTRO S100

Fujitsu FUTRO S100 Thin Client, for the moment selects VIA Eden ULV processor for its next generation, ultra low power, silent-operation FUTRO thin client succession, news has released in Taiwan on 17 July 2009 complete with a 500MHz, Fujitsu FUTRO S100 enables the entire system to suck down just 11 watts under full load. Other specs include 1GB of DDR2 memory, a pair of USB 2.0 connectors, VGA output, Ethernet, a VX800 media processor, Chrome9 HC3 graphics and internal CF-based storage sustain.

Robot Toy Doraemon in Japan

Doraemon comes in the toy robot funny in Japan, will starting available from Bandai in September 3rd, the Doraemon toy robot that has funny motion, light, heat, and sound sensors that let it react to its environment.

Mad Catz Street Fighter IV controllers

Capcom’s blog posted Evo Championships in Las Vegas Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition sticks were used by the vast majority of top players, Street Fighter IV-branded FightSticks and FightPads from Mad Catz. Blog wrote it’s including SFIV champion, Daigo, there are only 500 of these sticks in the world, that’s 250 for Xbox 360 and 250 for PS3.

Comic-con resale online the pad cost $49.99 and the sticks $179.99, available now, but extremely limited numbers, it matches the orange and white design of the CC Edition Fight stick.

Samsung’s CLEAR WiMAX live in Las Vegas and S9110 Touchscreen Watchphone

For the Las Vegas people get the good news in this summer released “Samsung Mobile Launches First WiMAX-Enabled Mobile Internet Device for Commercial Service,” Samsung Telecommunications America said will starting sells August 1st in Vegas-area.

Best Buy and Clearwire outlets ready to handle it, the released note MID arrives with 4G support, WiFi, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, a QWERTY keypad, a 4.3-inch touchscreen, Opera 9.5 and a customizable set of widgets on top of Windows Mobile.

While Samsung Mobile WiMAX-Enabled in Las Vegas, cellphone fashion S9110 touchscreen Samsung watchphone syncs with Outlook, on sale this month in France, appear with a 1.76-inch glass, scratch-proof touchscreen and stainless steel body that plays host to features such as Bluetooth 2.1, Outlook email sync, MP3 player, speakerphone, and voice recognition. Start sells at €450 tag price, maybe in the new version will get specs in 176 x 220 Pixel, 262k color TFT TSP display, 40MB of internal memory, 630mAh battery, and 57.5 x 41.1 x 11.98mm / 91g footprint.

Fujifilm Digital Cameras FinePix F70EXR, Z37, S200EXR, J38 and A170, A220 Model

Fujifilm also present digital cameras with FinePix F70EXR, Z37, S200EXR and J38. The news released wrote Fujifilm U.S.A., Inc. announced the FinePix F70EXR its first long-zoom digital compact camera, a pocket-friendly shooter with a 10x wide angle optical zoom, a case that’s just 22.7 millimeters thick, a 10 megapixel sensor and a respectable price of $279.95. The camera will be available August.

In the fashion camera, Fujifilm flair with the FinePix Z37 series, with a 10 megapixel sensor, sleek enclosure, SD / SDHC card slot, a 2.7-inch rear LCD and a $149.95, company said Z37 series “SR Auto Mode Keeps Users Snapping and Blog Mode Keeps Users Sharing”
For the FinePix S200EXR digital camera, its most advanced SLR-styled camera with a 2.7-inch display, an extra longevous battery, a 14.3x optical zoom lens and it’s the price startling $599.95.

Newest addition from Fujifilm to its popular J-series line-up with the FinePix J38 digital camera come with a 12.2 megapixel sensor, SDHC card slot, 3x optical zoom and the price of $129.95.

Two new Fujifilm entry-level digital cameras also launched the A170 working in 10 megapixel and A220 in 12 megapixel, company make its “A” series specifically for consumers seeking an affordable, user-friendly upgrade to their current digital camera. Electronic gadgets store price of $89.95, and the A220 price of $99.95 will be available in mid-August 2009.

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Legions of Japanese robots, which are the largest fleet of mechanized worker in the world are now idled as Japan suffers its deepest economic recession in more than a generation as consumers throughout the world cut expenses for buying cars and gadgets.

At Yaskawa Electric Factory, the largest robot manufacturing plant in Kyushu on the southern island of Japan, robots used to turn out more robots. But today a lone robotic worker with its steely arms twisted and turned, testing its motors for the day new orders return. At the same time, its immobile co-workers stood with silence in rows, many of them with arms frozen in midair.

Those robotic workers may be out of work for a long time since Japanese industrial production has tumbled by nearly 40% , and at the same time, the demand for robots has also stepped down.

In short, the future is not so bright. Tighter cash is being injecting a dosage of reality to some of Japan’s more fantastic projects, such as pet robots and cyborg receptionists that may hamper innovation later after the economy recovers.

Yaskawa’s profit plunged by two-thirds at 6.9 billion yen, or approximately US$72 million in the year that ended on March 20, and the company expects a loss this year.

Japan’s robot association said, shipments of industrial robots dropped 33% throughout the industry during the last quarter of 2008, and 59% in the first quarter of 2009.

Research firm Fuji Keizai expects the market to stumble by as much as 40% this year as investment in robots has been the first to go as companies protect their human workers.

Robots may be cheaper than flesh-and-blood workers in the long term, but the upfront investment costs are much higher.

In 2005, more than 370,000 robots worked at factories across Japan or about 40% of the global total, representing 32 robots for every 1,000 manufacturing employees. In 2007, the government planned for a technology policy that called for one million industrial robots to be installed by 2025. That will almost certainly not happen because the recession has set the robot industry back years. That goes for industrial robots and the more cuddly toy robots.

In fact, several of the lovable sort have already become casualties of the recession. Robot maker Systec Akazawa filed for bankruptcy in January, less than a year after it introduced its miniature PLEN walking robot at the Consumer Electronics Show(CES Show) in Las Vegas.

Roborior by Tmsuk - a watermelon-shape house sitter on wheels that rolls around a home and uses infrared sensors to detect suspicious movement and a video camera to transmit images to absent residents - has struggled to find new users. A rental program was scrapped in April because of lack of interest.

Though the company will not release sales figures, it has sold less than a third of the goal, 3,000 units, it set when Roborior hit the market in 2005, and there are no plans to manufacture more.

That is a shame, because busy Japanese in the city could use the Roborior to keep an eye on aging parents in the countryside. Roborior is a kind of robot Japanese society needs in the future.

Japan’s aging population had given the development of home robots an added imperative. With nearly 25% of citizens 65 or older, the country was banking on robots to replenish the work force and to help nurse the elderly.

But sales of a Secom product, My Spoon, a robot with a swiveling, spoon-fitted arm that helps older or disabled people eat, have similarly stalled as caregivers balk at its US$4,000 price.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries failed to sell even one of its toddler-size home-helper robots, the Wakamaru, introduced in 2003. Surely, less practical, novelty robots have fallen on even harder times in the downturn and that goes also for robot makers outside Japan.

Ugobe, which is based in Idaho, is the maker of the cute green Pleo dinosaur robot with a wiggly tail, it filed for bankruptcy protection in April.

Despite selling 100,000 Pleos and earning more than $20 million, the company racked up millions of dollars in debt and was unable to raise further financing.

Sony pulled the plug on its robot dog, Aibo, in 2006, seven years after its introduction. Though initially popular, Aibo, costing more than $2,000, never managed to break into the mass market.

The US$300 i-Sobot from Takara Tomy, a small toy robot that can recognize spoken words, was meant to break the price barrier. The company, based in Tokyo, has sold 47,000 since the i-Sobot went on sale in late 2007, making it a blockbuster hit in the robot world.

But with sales faltering in the last year, the company has no plans to release further versions after it clears out its inventory of about 3,000.

Research and marketing firm Seed Planning says many of Japan’s robotics projects tend to be too far-fetched, concentrating on humanoids and other leaps of the imagination that cannot be readily brought to market.

Japanese scientists grew up watching robot cartoons, so they all want to make two-legged companions, but the questions will be: Are they realistic? Do consumers really want home-helper robots?”

Robot Factory, once a mecca for robot fans in the western city of Osaka, closed in April after a plunge in sales. In the end, whose store, Jungle, took over some of Robot Factory’s old stock, robots are still expensive, and do not really do much. But that is not true for industrial robots - at least not when the economy is booming.

Fuji Heavy Industries argues its robots are practical and make economic sense. The company sells a giant automated cleaning robot that can use elevators to travel between floors on its own. The wheeled robot, which resembles a small street-cleaning car, already works at several skyscrapers in Tokyo.

Companies are able to regain the six million yen investment in the cleaner robot in as quickly as three years, Fuji said. The manufacturer has rented out about 50 so far.

A robot will work every day and night without complaining, while we can even save on lights and heating, because robots do not need any of that.

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research IFAM in Bremen has created a robot that can go underwater, swim to the underwater cable and carry out the necessary maintenance.

Using today’s robots, the person who controls the robot has a heavy duty because it is really dark down the sea as the robot’s lamp will not help much and moreover the current keeps dragging the robot away from where it is needed to do the job.

Future robots to be created by Fraunhofer Institute will have a sensor like a sense of touch that will help detecting an  undersea setting independently. One component in this tangible capability is a strain gauge. If the robot encounters an obstacle, the strain gauge is fainted and the electrical resistance changes. The special feature of our strain gauge is that it is not glued but printed on - which means we can apply the sensor to curved surfaces of the robot.

The single printed strip is just a few ten micrometers wide, that is about half the width of a human hair. Hence, the strain gauges can be applied close to each other and the robot can identify precisely where it is touching an obstacle. The sensor is protected from the salt water by encapsulation.

To produce the strain gauges, the research scientists atomize a solution with nanoparticles to create an aerosol. A software system guides the aerosol stream to the right position. Focusing gas shrouds the beam and ensures that it does not fan out.

The robotic Shimon musicians marimba player created by Georgia Tech’s Guy Hoffman, Gil Weinberg and Roberto Aimi of Alium Labs recently. Georgia Tech’s Guy Hoffman formerly of MIT while Gil Weinberg is director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. They have this perfectly into a piece without any human intervention.

A new robotic lawn mower is now available with several advantages as it  charges and operates itself without supervision,  offers low noise level and no requirement of labour, which makes it perfectly suited for use in quiet environments such as hospitals, hotels and leisure facilities, and office locations.

Automower 260 ACX, the name of the new robotic lawn mower, will  send a text message to your mobile phone should anything disturb the operation. Besides, it cuts the grass, fertilizes the lawn with the cut offs from the grass and is also able to keep away moles, slugs and other lawn predators.

With no harmful exhaust emissions and low energy consumption, the mower is gentle on the environment, and moreover day or night, rain or shine, it simply gets on with the mowing, leaving you free to get on with managing your business.

Source: Automower.

Belgian Probo is an intelligent huggy robot, Bill Gates-backed, huggable, robotic Alf wannabe. As we see a bit of the little guy earlier today, but now we’ve found a treasure-trove of media and wanted to share with you. Probo a special focus on children.

A new robot is born in New York. This robot, named Tweenbots. Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

A new robot is born in New York. This robot, named Tweenbots which is made of cardboard and has height of 10 inches,  is created especially as a pedestrian that is dependent on human because it navigates the roads of the city where it walks around with the help of pedestrians that it meets.

Tweenbots can roll at a constant speed and in a straight line. Its destination is displayed on a flag and it relies on people that it meets. The people will read this flag and to aim the robot in the right direction to reach its target.

This robot is very vulnerable, mainly considering that it walks in a vast city with busy traffic and possibility that no one will help little robot that is lost in the city. It is vulnerable because it is built with minimal technology  and is easy to bump and fall on the road when it rolls. But Tweenbots has been successful in rolling from their starting point to its far destination assisted only by strangers. When the robot stumbles and falls or becomes trapped in a thole, a passerby will always help it and sends it to its destination.

Source: Tweenbots.

Cyberdyne Corporation of Japan, are planning to production of 400 units HAL Robotic Suit. The HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) suit works by detecting faint bioelectrical signals using pads placed on specific areas of the body. Cyberdyne will be marketed at approximately $4,200. the company is linking up with Daiwa House in order to “begin mass production” of the cybernetic bodysuit.