Meet the Real-life Transformers!

Brave Robotics, Asratec Corp and Tomy Co., Ltd. have developed J-Deite Quarter, a robot that turns into a car. This is a 1.3 m long humanoid that walks at the speed of 1 km/h. While on the vehicle mode, it achieves a speed of 10km/h.

Furthermore, the team aims to develop ‘King J-deite’ a 5 m long giant transformable robot, in 2020.

For now, check out this interesting video of J-Deite Quarter converting itself into a car.

"Greetings" says the Android

Toshiba is displaying a lifelike android at CEATEC Japan 2014. It has an appearance of a young woman, which blinks eyes and greets with warm smile. This prototype android can smoothly move arms and hands. Like humans, it also exchanges greetings and signs in Japanese. Toshiba further plans to develop its functions further in various areas such as sensing, speech synthesis, speech recognition and robotic control to realize a more sophisticated social robot by 2020.

The company intends to develop the robot that is capable of assisting people in the fields of welfare and healthcare.