Sony QRIO

Small things comes is Big packages,.

The robot, called QRIO short for Quest for Curiosity Sony QRIO is 58 centimeters tall and weighing seven kilograms, QRIO has big blue eyes and is covered in gleaming magnesium alloy. It may look like a toy, but its small body is packed with technology.

Sony QRIO can walk, climb up in the stairs and come down, and did you know that QRIO is a great dancer! Its cameras, sensors, and computer software also allow it to avoid obstacles, It can also remember names and faces, keep up a conversation, best of all it can sing better than Me, QRIO can sing vibrato voice.

Simple human actions are very difficult to reproduce in a robot. Getting a robot to walk was one of the first and biggest challenges for robot scientists. Like Honda Asimo they have alot of fixing error to do before the robots can walk probably that's the biggest challenges they have to face,. Walking is a delicate balancing act in which the body's center of gravity is constantly shifting as each foot is placed forward.Engineers solved the problem of getting a robot to walk using the Zero Moment Point rule. Sole sensors and positioning sensors fitted to the robot are used to calculate stable points of contact with the ground.

But that is the easiest part, How about running?
Now imagine running. When we run, there are times when both our feet are in the air. But having both feet in the air makes it impossible for a robot to gather data from the sensors on the soles of its feet, as it would if it was walking. Sony engineers overcame this challenge by developing new motion control mechanisms and improving the CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the robot's computer.

Sony QRIO Pictures

What else can it do?

Sony is really making small things comes with better future,. Japan is doing a great job in doing advance robot like QRIO but still Sony QRIO needs a lot of improvement to get it up to speed. But let us see what Sony can do in the near future.