Robots Candy-05 Wants To Be The Next Tiger Woods

One of the prototypes from the last round of NEDO (New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organization) funding is Candy-05, who seems to like Golf a whole lot. Looks like he has no problem getting the ball in the hole.

Candy-05 is developed by Nirvana Technology (now the Hajime Research Institute) and stands about 120cm tall. He rolls around on wheels and has stereoscopic cameras which help it locate a golf ball, eye the hole, and putt. His goal in life is to be an entertainment robot for park areas, where golf is popular. Video after the break.

Robo doc

After intensive surgery would you rather have your regular doc check your stiches via unnerving robot or settle for an unfamiliar albeit live physician? That's the question that a recent study at Johns Hopkin's has asked — if you can really call a 60-person survey, conducted by a doctor who also owns the robot-manufacturing company, a study. But this new "study" has found, that yes, patients prefer their own physician by way of robot-screen rather than settle for an unknown mystery doctor. InTouch Health Inc., owned by John Hopkin's urologist Dr. Kavoussi, has developed the robot system which uses a video camera, speaker and computer screen to conduct "telerounding", the robotic version of the short checkup visits doctors do throughout your hospital stay. From some distant location (maybe down the hall, maybe in the next state), the doctor uses a joystick to move the robot and to interact with eager patients. Probably the next step would be to just keep a similar screen, camera and speaker in every hospital room, and ditch the lone, wandering-robot altogether.

Live from E3: fightin' Robosapiens

Our publisher Jason Calacanis is also at E3 this week and sent us these action shots of a couple of those Robosapiens robots locked in combat.