CEATEC 2008: The two coolest robots of the show besides Little Seiko (2 videos)

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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Murata’s Little Seiko was not only the coolest robot of this year’s CEATEC (that ended Saturday) but one of the biggest fan favorites overall. But as the CEATEC is a Japanese exhibition, there was a number of other companies that showcased robots.
http://blip.tv/play/ih_RsyuJ5FQ

The video above shows Fujitsu’s Enon robot in action. Enon is a service robot that serves multiple purposes: surveillance, transportation, customer interaction, information terminal etc. It’s really cool.


I took the video below at Business Design Laboratory’s booth. Their Mechadroid Type C3 is meant to one day replace human receptionists and features face recognition technology and a touch panel display that enables people to request information.

Mechadroid Type C3 doesn’t have legs but he can talk.

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