The long gray nose is perhaps the most striking resemblance a new, 70-cm robot called Pino bears to Pinocchio - aside from the fact that both of them strive to become human.
While purely being a research robot and not intended for sale, the Pino robot, originally created by Tatsuya Matsui with the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, immediately brings our thoughts to Sony's Aibo and also Sony's humanoid SDR-3X prototype that baffled the world a while back with its appearance and abilities.
 | | Little Pino features a 733 MHz Pentium III processor, 512 MB of RAM and runs on Linux - how's that for the ultimate nerds' toy? |
The 70-cm tall (or would that be small?) robot has a futuristic look to it, and bears quite a striking resemblance to the Sony SDR-3X robot. Very little reminds us of the string puppet most of the world has come to love - Pinocchio, who wanted to cast off his strings in an attempt to become human. However, Pinocchio is also known for running into a small problem with his nose - if he lied, it grew bigger.
That's fortunately not the case with Pino, but the nose and the underlying intent to become as human as possible is the same. Currently though, Pino is powered by a 733 MHz Pentium III processor and has 512 MB of RAM serving as his main memory, while Pinocchio has a more magical touch to him.
In fact, little Pino also runs on Linux, using Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 - which should make him a good co-candidate alongside Tux as a mascot for the Linux community :)
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