Friday, July 14, 2006

New Robot from Japan runs on Linux

A new robot from Japan runs on Linux!

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT) has just unleashed the latest in a long line of bipedal robots to come out of the R&D labs of this country. The HRP-2m Choromet is a 35cm tall, 1.5kg Gundam lookalike that is driven by Linux and for once, we're actually told the flavor in use: ARTLinux in this case.

Digital World Tokyo


They say that the robot is inexpensive... Let's wait and see.