We met the Humanoid Bot who’ll fetch us beer and play pool, now Paris-based Aldrebaran Robotics will bring France into the elite club of countries engaged in developing advanced adult humanoid robots with their humanoid robot called Romeo being created to assist the elderly and disabled people. Scheduled to be unveiled in March next year, the 1.4-meter-tall robot will be good to walk about in the house, do household chores like fetching food from the kitchen, taking out garbage and assisting elderly and disabled with their everyday tasks, and would cost about 250,000 Euros and weigh 40 kilograms.

Romeo will be capable of being communicated with using natural speech and gestures, and will be a robot equipped with a four-vertebra backbone, articulated feet, a partially soft torso, a composite leg exoskeleton, and a an actuator that’ll let the bot control its limbs in a safer way.

Expected to cost about €250,000 ($333,700), the entire project has a budget of €10 million ($13 million). An improved version will later be offered to hospitals and nursing homes and after that to individuals as well.

[IEEE]