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Carnegie Mellon University to Host Event Featuring Sony's QRIO Robot.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, January, 2005
Byline: Carnegie Mellon University
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University will host Sony Electronics Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Hideki "Dick" Komiyama, who will demonstrate and discuss the technology behind QRIO, a two-and-a-half-foot tall, silver-colored, autonomous humanoid robot designed to interact with people as a companion or personal assistant.
QRIO, Sony's corporate ambassador, whose name is a play on the word curiosity, combines cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and dynamics technologies. It can move on its own accord, gather information, recognize people's faces and voices and carry on conversations. It possesses a fluidity of movement that enables it to walk and move its limbs in a...
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