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December 18, 2003
Sony's New Bipedal QRIO Robot -- Amazing!
From Slashdot comes a story about Sony's new "humanoid" QRIO robot. At about 18" tall, they're amazingly compact, yet they are still able to literally run (i.e., both feet off the ground at once). That link contains movie clips and photos.
Particularly stunning is this movie of four QRIO robots doing traditional Japanese dance. While they're not interacting with each other or their environment, Sony's QRIO seems to definitely set a new standard for self-contained bipedal robot mobility and agility.