Post by livininhope on Oct 2, 2016 12:31:03 GMT
Hi
Have you seen the info below, its in the huffington post, I thought it was interesting,.
Body odour robots detect smelly feet and stinky breath
By Leo KelionTechnology reporter 8 May 2013
Two robots that warn users if they suffer from bad body odour have been unveiled in Japan.
One resembles a woman's head and ranks the operator's breath, declaring an "emergency" if it falls into the worst category.
The other looks like a dog and growls when confronted with stinky feet.
The machines take advantage of commercially available sensors, highlighting how far the tech has evolved.
They were developed by the Fukuoka-based company CrazyLabo and the Kitakyushu National College of Technology.
However, artificial olfaction sensors - or electronic noses - have been commercially available since the early 1990s when UK-based researchers brought one of the first products to market.
Chemical fingerprint
Details of the latest machines were revealed by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
It reported that when a subject breathes into the mouth of the humanoid robot, named Kaori, its responses ranged from "it smells like citrus" to "there's an emergency taking place that's beyond the limit of my patience."
The dog robot, called Shuntaro, nods its head while analysing the smell of a user's feet. If the odour is not too strong it nestles up to the subject and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony plays out of its speakers. If the feet smell stronger, it makes a growling sound. If they reek it appears to collapse and pass out.
The robots rely on gas sensors capable of creating a chemical fingerprint that can be matched to specific odours. The data is processed by embedded computers that in turn control the machines' responses.
They mark the first products to be announced by CrazyLabo, which says it now plans to make money from renting them out to events.
The company's president, Kennosuke Tsutsumi, says he was inspired to create the machines by complaints from his family about his own body odour.
Have you seen the info below, its in the huffington post, I thought it was interesting,.
Body odour robots detect smelly feet and stinky breath
By Leo KelionTechnology reporter 8 May 2013
Two robots that warn users if they suffer from bad body odour have been unveiled in Japan.
One resembles a woman's head and ranks the operator's breath, declaring an "emergency" if it falls into the worst category.
The other looks like a dog and growls when confronted with stinky feet.
The machines take advantage of commercially available sensors, highlighting how far the tech has evolved.
They were developed by the Fukuoka-based company CrazyLabo and the Kitakyushu National College of Technology.
However, artificial olfaction sensors - or electronic noses - have been commercially available since the early 1990s when UK-based researchers brought one of the first products to market.
Chemical fingerprint
Details of the latest machines were revealed by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
It reported that when a subject breathes into the mouth of the humanoid robot, named Kaori, its responses ranged from "it smells like citrus" to "there's an emergency taking place that's beyond the limit of my patience."
The dog robot, called Shuntaro, nods its head while analysing the smell of a user's feet. If the odour is not too strong it nestles up to the subject and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony plays out of its speakers. If the feet smell stronger, it makes a growling sound. If they reek it appears to collapse and pass out.
The robots rely on gas sensors capable of creating a chemical fingerprint that can be matched to specific odours. The data is processed by embedded computers that in turn control the machines' responses.
They mark the first products to be announced by CrazyLabo, which says it now plans to make money from renting them out to events.
The company's president, Kennosuke Tsutsumi, says he was inspired to create the machines by complaints from his family about his own body odour.