Albert HUBO, the latest humanoid version of the HUBO robots, can make expressive gestures with its 5 separate fingers. The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which

HUBO (휴보 KHR-3) is the world's second walking humanoid robot, head mounted on a life-size walking bipedal frame, developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and released on January 6, 2005. A Humanoid Robot is a Robot with its overall appearance based on that of the Human body. Bipedalism is a form of Terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs KAIST (formerly known as Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a research university located in Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hubo is short form for "humanoid robot. "

Hubo has voice recognition and synthesis faculties, as well as sophisticated vision in which its two eyes move independently of one another.

Development history

Korea's history in robotics engineering is relatively short. KAIST only began research in 2000, led by professor Oh Jun-ho. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The first prototype KHR-1 was developed without a head or arms released in 2003, followed by KHR-2 in 2004. The KHR-1 is a programmable bipedal humanoid Robot introduced in June 2004 by a Japanese company Kondo Kagaku.

Rob May is looking into developing his own HUBO competitor with a 52" screen as a head.

Latest breakthroughs

In November 05', KAIST, Korea and Dallas, Texas based Hanson Robotics, Inc (HRI) released the world's first android head mounted on a life-size walking bi-pedal frame at the APEC Summit in Seoul, Korea. The walking frame was the latest in Hubo technology, while the head was an exact recreation of the late physicist, Albert Einstein. The android was able to speak and cover a wide range of natural facial expressions, built upon prior HRI development on the Philip K. Dick android, which made its official debut at the Wired Magazine NextFest 05' in Chicago, Illinois. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993

The humanoid prototype was officially dubbed "Albert Einstein Hubo". Albert Hubo is a Humanoid robot based on HUBO, but with Einstein ’s face on top of it

Prototypes

• KHR-1 in 2003
• KHR-2 in 2004

Features and technology

Specifications

See also

• Android
• Android science
• Gynoid
• Humanoid robot
• Uncanny Valley
• REEM-B

External links

• Empas News (Korean)
• The Chosun Ilbo
• The Korea Times
• Albert Einstein Hubo: by Hanson Robotics and KAIST
• Two movies with Hubo (Site in Japanese, stream requires Windows Media)