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Almir Heralic at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden looks like he may be the next toymaker to the king — either that, or he’s getting ready for world domination. His HR-2 robot may be small — think Kondo KHR-1, rather than ASIMO — but don’t let its size fool you. According to Heralic, his bot has fluid movement, a neural net, speech functions and stereo vision coupled with facial recognition and tracking capabilities. We just hope that the pic shown, from Heralic’s website, is meant to merely show HR-2’s scale, and not a predilection for playing with matches.
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The HR-2 robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden. It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak.

Engadget. Almir Heralic - Chalmers.