Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches – tech – 10 March 2010 – New Scientist.
More and more people are asking the question ‘how can we make it safe to hang out with robots in our daily life?’
In the New Scientist article, Chris Melhuish looks at how facial expressions of a humanoid can be used to make the humanoids intentions more transparent to human users, so that we would know what to expect from the robot.

New ROPID bot by Tomotaka Takahashi that can jump 3-inches. When watching the video, don’t worry if you blinked and missed the jumping part – they show you a slow version of it later. Very impressive.
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