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Attention aux robots : des robots sont testés sur les routes de Fukuoka

Un nouveau paneau risque d'aparaitre dans le code de la route : "Attention aux robots !".
En effet, des robots vont être testés sur les routes de Fukuoka dans le cadre de recherches sur l'adaptation des robots à l'environnement urbain. Des chercheurs des universités de Waseda, de Kyushu et la société Hitachi vont tester des robots en dehors de leur laboratoires, sur des routes publiques, après avoir évidemment obtenu l'autorisation gouvernementale . Les chercheurs envisagent notamment de tester des robots développés pour aider les personnes agées et/ou invalides à se déplacer (robot Tmsuk IV).

Source : Kyodo
Vu sur : Yahoo Asia News

Researchers to test robots on Fukuoka roads, 1st in Japan

(EDS: TESTS SLATED TO BEGIN AT NOON)
A group of university and corporate researchers will test various functions of robots on public roads in Fukuoka city Saturday, the first experiment of its kind in Japan.

The group includes researchers from graduate schools of Waseda University and Kyushu University, and those from Hitachi Ltd. and a Kitakyushu-based robot development company.

The researchers plan to test several types of robots, including one designed to help the elderly walk and one that imitates the movement of a robot user, named Tmsuk IV. The team also plans to experiment with a robot capable of patrolling indoors on its own.

The list of task includes taking merchandise from display carts and to water the plant.

Following the government's designation of Fukuoka city as a special zone for robot development and experiment last November, the researchers have been allowed to operate robots on public roads by applying for police permission to use such roads for research purposes.
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