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Beauty with brains: The Lara humanoid robot

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Developed by a team of students at Darmstadt Technical University, the Lara humanoid robot boasts some innovative metal alloy “muscle” and “foot” technology. Measuring 130cm tall, Lara has 38 artificial muscles, which allow 6-degrees of freedom of movement in each leg and 3-degrees in each arm. Although, the project is quite old, but I just couldn’t resist her beauty and the make. The name Lara refers to the eternal unsatisfied love in the book and film “Dr. Schiwago”. The intelligent, easy-to-control robot understands natural language and reacts according to the context of the current situation. Lara understands a programming language called Pegasus, which extracts the idea of sentence and converts it into a meta grammar. Lara has made appearance at a number of shows. More images of the beauty with brains after the jump…

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Via: Project Page

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