Robot Generator

Today, I found an interesting link to a website how to generate robot picture.

http://en.genzu.net/robot/

This robot generator is developed by young japanese with a nickname Rarapima (profil,plurk,twitter). The webservice generate robot from names. For example, if I put my name "Ignatius Sapto Condro", a picture of humanoid robot will be generated. This service is case sensitive, so you can have fun with writing combinations of your names.

Some examples:

• "Indar Sugiarto", see here
• "Ignatius Sapto Condro", see here
• "Atmawan Bisawarna", see here
• "iscab saptocondro", see here
• "Mova Al Afghani", see here or here
• "Mohadig Widha Rousstia", see here
• "Eka Suwartadi", see here
• "Ulfah Siregar", see here
• "Vita Amanda Putri", see here
• "Florentin Olivia", see here
• "Teuku Reiza Yuanda", see here

Robots are still not smart enough to open a door

For Homo Sapiens (yes, that's us, human), it is easy to open a door. But for humanoid robot, opening a door is difficult. The robot should balance itself on two feet and give enough swing (or energy) to open a door. Swinging means unbalance position. Then a robot should be back into stable or balance position, which calles standing.

IEEE Spectrum published an article about how a humanoid robot opens a door.