Korea's SeRoPi service bot features fancy arms

While Asimo works on figuring out that whole walking thing, the rest of the bots have to pick up the slack with slightly more useful endeavors. Enter the SeRoPi (Service Robot Platform Initiative), an in-progress bot being built by researchers at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology. The bot eschews legs for some functional wheels, which can zip SeRoPi around the lab at 4.5mph. Nothing too fancy there, but where SeRoPi excels is his elaborate arms, with which he can bend down and pick crap off the ground, before setting it down right where he's told. Doesn't sound incredibly exciting, but SeRoPi does it with style, so we've gotta give him points for that. He can also recognize objects with his dual cameras, and use both of his arms in conjunction for elaborate cheerleader moves or enhanced manipulation of objects. Sounds like with a bit more AI, the SeRoPi could be quite the helpful bot around the home or office. But we're sure that's exactly what he wants us to believe.

[Dae @ Dec 13th 2006 11:18AM]

"Iron Leg" Asimo
Vs.
"Metal Arm" SeRoPi

I so wish i was home to Photoshop this scene.

Hmm. now that i actually said their names out loud, they could be Jedi or part of that universe

[Jedi Master @ Dec 13th 2006 1:53PM]

I, for one, welcome our object manipulating and elaborate cheerleading robot overlords.

[GJP303 @ Dec 13th 2006 4:59PM]

the I, for one, jokes perfectly summarize wut those crazy robots r doing this particular time making it perfect for people who don't have enough time to read the full thing, sorry but the title on this particular one didn't help at all. Thanks for saving my time. But I admit, saying this to you did waste some time, enough to read the story.

[Trevor Bommersbach @ Dec 14th 2006 9:23PM]

Looks nice. Elaborate arm it has, but elaborate hand it does not. The fingers mearly open and close, there are no independent side-to-side motion for any of its 3 fingers. Therefore it couldn't grab a ball or lightbulb any differently than a pole or in this case, a can. I'm also a little worries how well it will handle center of gravity when picking up anything over a pound or two. Good luck though!!!

[Rynth @ Dec 14th 2006 4:00AM]

Someone has to do it...

I, for one, welcome our Uber Armed object manipulative stylish'ly wheel driven robotic overlords...

*ahem*

Cool bot though.