Comments on: CEATEC JAPAN 2010: Robot Round-Up http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=24964 Robots who are fun to be with! Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: turn.self.off http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=24964&cpage=1#comment-9132 turn.self.off Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:46:39 +0000 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=24964#comment-9132 Heh, call me crazy but i would not mind dating her ;)

as for the wireless charging bit, depends. If they can set up a passive sensor system, so that the fields are only active when a chargeable object is actually present, it could potentially reduce the waste.

And i suspect we would see it in highways at first, as the major complaint against electric vehicles are range.

]]> By: alex http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=24964&cpage=1#comment-9128 alex Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:04:57 +0000 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=24964#comment-9128 HRP-4C – I must say the face looks quite good this time. And at least she didn’t try to sing “Melt” again and they choose a better song for her (Melody). The arms looked a bit awkward though.

About the wireless charging/discharging – isn’t that an energy waste ? Even if it would have an efficiency of 90% – if all cars and electric devices would be charged this way it would be a big waste.
“By 2030 the roads will have non-contact power transmission lanes to recharge cars wirelessly while driving”
- this would be an extreme energy waste and a totally useless thing -why can’t a car be charged in the night at the park place

Therapeutic robot bear – I would once like to see how those robots are used in a therapy and in what therapies. It’s that anytime someone makes a robotic toy it’s a
therapeutic robot – so it would be interesting to see it in action or to see that it is even used somewhere.

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