The 2007 International Robot Exhibition, which began Wednesday and runs through Saturday, is sponsored by the Japan Robot Association. The show claims to be the largest robotics industry trade show in the world and showcases robots that do everything from manufacture cars to help those in the health care industry.
Japan-based ZMP offers educational robots for students to build and learn on with its e-nuvo series of basic, arm, wheel, and walk robots.
While the company goes by the letters ZMP alone, the combo also happens to be an acronym for Zero Moment Point, a robot walking algorithm. At
the show, ZMP unveiled Version 3 of its e-nuvo Walk robot, a two-legged walking robot which can run on Microsoft Robotics Studio software.
Text by Candace Lombardi, staff writer, CNET News.com.
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