Turkey’s $1 million humanoid SURALP robot gets a coming out party (video)

Yet another country has a walking humanoid robot to call its own, joining the illustrious league of nations that most recently added Iran to its ranks. Turkey is the lucky ducky this time, officially unveiling the SURALP robot to the world. Yeah, that’s an acronym, “Sabanci University Robot Research Laboratory Platform,” but after seeing him in action we’ve taken to calling him SHAKY. The University has been posting videos of his progress for many moons now, an eight year project that has cost $1 million total so far, but he was only recently officially revealed to the world at a demonstration, wowing the crowd by handing someone a can and then, later, throwing that very same can into the trash. Maybe SHAKY 2.0 will learn to recycle — and to love. Continue reading Turkey’s $1 million humanoid SURALP robot gets a coming out party (video) Turkey’s $1 million humanoid SURALP robot gets a coming out party (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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