Universities will be able to get their hands on a formidable new research platform beginning this September.

Some photos of Namco’s long forgotten entertainment robots from the 1980s.

Kibo ver.1.2 is a taller and more capable version of CIR’s small bipedal humanoid robot.

Kibo was CIR’s first attempt at a small, expressive bipedal humanoid robot. It would later be replaced by a more sophisticated version (Kibo ver.1.2).

With one of its shipyards in Shimonoseki, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has employed its humanoid robot Wakamaru to teach kids about shipbuilding this summer.