The text tells about a robot named WASUBOT, it played in one of the Japan’s leading orchestras. Each hand has 21 degrees of freedom and each leg 4 degrees of freedom. And its 50 pneumatic joints are controlled by 80 microprocessors. There are pressure sensors on the fingers so it can adjust the strokes on the keys on the piano. WASUBOT can strike a piano key 15 times per second, which is twice as fast as a professional pianist. It can respond to pressure but not on texture of the surface. And no one is claiming to know how to build the brain of a humanoid robot. It is build by some Japanese engineers. Later it was equipped with more sensitive mechanical fingers and named, WABOT-2, it played the piano so the audiences were amazed.
After these performances it can do much more serious things. Perhaps in twenty to twenty-five years robots like WASUBOT and WABOT-2 could be whizzing around on Japanese hospitals helping, carry and nursing the sick people, or helping elderly people in their homes.
In Japan the era with silicon serfs perhaps is around the corner if you believe Ichiro Kato, one of Japan’s leading robotic engineers.
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