RT1 makes friends at Science Live

Designed and developed for the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and now playing rock, paper scissors with visitors to Science Live at the Science Museum, London, RT-1 is a self-contained, fully automated robotic torso, based on human anatomy at adult human scale. It is a highly articulated manipulating platform with novel 36 degrees of freedom and dexterous hands that can emulate human gesturing.

LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 17: BERTI the robot interacts with a Sony AIBO robot dog at The Science Museum’s Antenna Gallery on February 17, 2009 in London. BERTI is a life size humanoid robot built to mimic human gestures. Visitors to the Antenna Gallery will witness BERTI’s gestural abilities and get the chance to participate in live research by telling scientists how they rate BERTI’s performance. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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