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01.01.1970 //In Japan took place the presentation of rewards Robot Award 2006.
In Japan passed the ceremony of the presentation of rewards Robot Award 2006 for the best achievements in the sphere of robotostroyeniya. From an enormous quantity of aspirants, entered in competition, judges Robot Award 2006 it selected ten most useful and perfect from a technical point of view of robots. One of the conquerors in the nomination the "best robot for the sphere of maintenance", as reports Associated Press, became the mechanical seal Paro. This robot, equipped with special sensors, in response to touchs and strokings blinks by eyes and stirs by fins. Paro, developed by the Japanese national institute of foremost industrial sciences, is used as the unique calming substance in the children's hospitals. Furthermore, prize was reached to roboruke MySpoon, which helps to feed invalids and people with the limited physical possibilities. It is necessary to note that hand MySpoon in the process of work stops spoon at the small distance from the person, which makes possible for man to independently check the process of the consumption of food. Finally, in the nomination the "best robot for the sphere of maintenance" was noted the automatic vacuum cleaner Mammoth. In the category "industrial robots" prize-winners they became manipulator Motoman, capable of imitating the motions of human hand, and also mechanized inspector High-Speed Reliability Verification Robot. In the nomination "robots for the public sector" conquered system TOCE (Tele-Operated Construction Equipment) with remote control, intended for fulfilling the rescue operations, and autonomous submarine Urashima. Furthermore, rewards obtained the producers of the laser sensors URG, the creators of play collection "make itself" Khr-2hv, and also the developers of mechanical machine for the catching of squids.