CO-HABITATION WITH THE EVOLVING ROBOTS


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Planning :
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Editor :
IEUJI Yoshihisa, OWADA Tatsuo,
KOIZUMI Keiko, and SHINODA Takatoshi
Art Direction and Design :
TERAI Keiji
Scanning :
NISHIKAWA Shigeru
English Proofreaders :
Jonathan Mark HALL,
and Marilyn BOLLES
Translation :
James Keith VINCENT, David D'HEILLY,
Jonathan Mark HALL, Marilyn BOLLES,
Dan TEMUJIN, and SATO Kyoko
Publisher :
YOSHIDA Hajimu
Published by :
NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.
Printing and Binding by :
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.



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Foreword
KANEKO Takashi
08
Robots Now, or the Body without Reason
HATTORI Katsura
14
Exhibition Concept

Exhibition
18
Seiko Epson Corporation
  • EMRoS

20
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne(EPFL)
Microprocessor and Interface Lab (LAMI)
  • Evolutionary Predator-Prey Robots
  • Stick-Pulling Experiment Robots

26
YANOBE Kenji
  • Atom Car

30
Microsoft Co., Ltd.
  • ActiMates

32
AAI Japan, Inc.
  • Flexible Autonomous Ground Vehicle(M-2)
  • Eight Legged Walking Robot(OCT-1c)
  • Intelligent Wheelchair(TAO-6)

38
LEGO Japan Ltd.
  • MINDSTORMS

42
ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories(MIC)
  • Co-evolving words MiMIC

44
Humanoid Research Laboratory, Waseda University
  • WABOT-1
  • WABOT-2

48
TAKAHASHI Shiro
  • babot

50
SRL(Survival Research Laboratories)
  • From Video Tape Works

54
The Shape of Robots in the Near Future
SHIMOHARA Katsunori
62
The Shape of Things to Come:
Is the Day of "the Family Robot" Coming?
UTADA Akihiro
78
On a Clear Day You Can See the Future:
The Geneaology of Humanoid Robots and an Encouragement of Desktop Robotics
HIRAIWA Akira

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