Meet EMIEW2 - The Japanese Robot
The red and white robot, named EMIEW2, has two black eyes vaguely reminiscent of the iconic "Hello Kitty." Photograph by: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO, AFP This Japanese robot can find lost items and guide you to where they are. Developed by Hitachi, is named - EMIEW2 - about the size of a six-year-old child and glides everywhere on wheels at the bottom of its legs, its round, white face with two black eyes vaguely reminiscent of the iconic "Hello Kitty." Shown a digital camera in a recent demonstration, the robot said, "That's probably a DSLR camera." When it sees an object, the robot uses two cameras mounted on its head to compare the color and shape with images stored in its database. "EMIEW collects images of various objects from the internet and saves them on an external database," said developer Takashi Sumiyoshi. "Then, when you show it something, EMIEW figures out what it is by comparing the color and shape. If you name an object, EMIEW sear...