Tongmyong University’s Department of Robot System Engineering (South Korea) is developing an intelligent service robot called TUBO (Tungmyong U + roBOt). TUBO’s first major public appearance was back at Busan Robot World 2009. The university is using it to research HRI (human-robot interaction) with plans to develop a household assistant.
TUBO has familiar capabilities: stereo cameras for face recognition; character recognition (reading); Korean speech recognition and synthesis; and SLAM. It moves on two wheels and has two manipulators. A few images follow after the break.
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