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USC's Humanoid Robot Head
The University of Southern California's learning Humanoid Robot Head was one of over a dozen robots exhibited at the National Science Foundation headquarters as part of the exhibition "Robots: An Exhibition of U.S. Automatons from the Leading Edge of Research" in 2005. The robots were there to highlight U.S.-funded robotics research and the findings of a study--newly released at that time--titled "World Technology Evaluation Center International Study of Robotics." The report culminated a nearly two-year effort that evaluated robotics research and development in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Western Europe.
To view a description of the robots that attended, see Exhibit Descriptions. [This image accompanied NSF Media Advisory Robots: An Exhibition of U.S. Automatons from the Leading Edge of Research, released Sept. 5, 2005.]
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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