Hitachi's new humanoid robot 'Emiew' stretches out its arm as it reacts to a given command during a demonstration in Tokyo, March 15.
TOKYO - Pal and Chum look a little bit like first-graders on wheels, chatting up a storm and racing around the room.
For Hitachi Ltd., Japan’s biggest electronics conglomerate, they are the next generation of humanoid robots.
Hitachi unveiled the “Emiew,” its first humanoid robot, on Tuesday, saying it was the world’s quickest-moving robot yet.
“We aimed to create a robot that could live and coexist with people,” Toshihiko Horiuchi, project leader at Hitachi’s Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory Robotics Technology Project, told a news conference.
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