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Kenji Urada (c. 1944 – July 4, 1981) was a Japanese factory worker who was killed by a robot.Urada is often incorrectly reported to be the first person killed by a robot, [1] [2] but Robert Williams, a worker at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, had been killed by a robot over two years earlier, on January 25, 1979.
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[citation needed] Japan wants robotics in the 21st century to be what automobiles were in the 20th century. [1] Robots are also seen as a solution to Japan's declining birth rate and shrinking workforce, which is an important issue in Japanese society. Although the number of workers that a robot could replace varies on the type of industry, a ...
The company was established in January 2001, based on the research results encouraged the Kitano Symbiotic System Project, under the jurisdiction of Japan's MEXT. Their first product released was the humanoid robot PINO in 2001. The company's name comes from the Zero Moment Point, a physical quantity related to the dynamics of legged systems.
A robotics company produces or manufactures and sells robots for domestic or industrial use. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 21st century, investment in robotics companies has grown due to increasing demand for automation.
ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000. It is displayed in the Miraikan museum in Tokyo, Japan.On 8 July 2018, Honda posted the last update of ASIMO on their official page stating that it would be ceasing all development and production of ASIMO robots in order to focus on more practical applications using the technology developed through ASIMO ...
[2] as a venture company to develop his ideas for an exoskeleton suit. The name is the same as a fictional company from the Terminator film series, which also produces robots. The name, however, is not necessarily a reference, but from the new academic fields of "Cybernetics", [ 3 ] and the suffix "-dyne", referring to power. [ 4 ]
Masahiro Mori (森 政弘, Mori Masahiro, 1927 – 12 January 2025) was a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work in the fields of robotics and automation, his research achievements in humans' emotional responses to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion. The ASIMO robot was designed by one of Masahiro's students.