France and Japan Team for Robotics Study

France has begun to play with bots, too. The HOAP3 recently arrived at the LIRMM - CNRS (Laboratory for Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier) as an upgrade from one created last year that established the JRL (Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory,) based in both Japan and France. The 8.8 kg, 60 cm tall bot has 28 motorized movements, accelerometers, rate gyros, two cams, pressure sensors, and an infra-red range finder. With a RTLinux software platform, LIRMM’s long range plan is to have several humanoids for studying robotic cooperation. We forsee this as a sign that eventually AI will be doing its own reasearch without humans.

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