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Hitachi has joined the robot race by releasing Emiew, a wheeled, dynamically-balanced humanoid robot with voice recognition.

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Hitachi Emiew robot

Emiew stands for "excellent mobility and interactive existence as work mate". This shows some different shots of the robot. It has digital cameras and radar sensors mounted on its head and middle body and is fairly adept at avoiding objects - a quoted reaction of 100 miliseconds. They move at a speed of 6km/h (3.7 miles per hour) - currently faster than most robots, but possibly only a little faster than the running Asimo. Their voice recognition system includes a vocabulary of about 100 words. Hitachi has a long history of developing robots, and they recently released a robotic vacuum cleaner. Hitachi hopes to be selling more advanced versions of these robots by 2010.

"There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This would be if every machine could work by itself, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation."
- Aristotle, from his justification of slavery in Politics