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Robot holiday season videos 2012 (continued)


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22 December 2012



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More videos for the holiday season featuring robots have started to appear.

This time, General Motors and Kiva Systems feature high-tech robots pretending to be “Santa’s little helpers”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHwGCiUOfgs&feature=share&list=PL5UWrgmuniqLsszErT_s9Gm74MGhx5AyA

Kiva’s video can be found here:
http://www.kivasystems.com/santas-high-tech-helpers/

While the industrial robots work away, Nao has been busy with his xylophone and well wishes.

Aisoy robotics bring us this fun video showing the challenges when filming robots with “personality”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfXxlNZhGM&feature=share&list=PL-NcJDWCD71gWi4Oc1nxGHfpUePcPEP7v

And in case you missed the holiday video from ETHZ featuring balancing, flying and legged robots, here it is.

For more holiday videos, have a look at the ROBOTS Podcast’s Annual Holiday Season Video Special Youtube Playlists. To submit your own, just send us a message at christmas@robotspodcast.com!



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Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory
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