Right Arrow Robots Meet Robear, Japan’s robot nurse with the face of a bear By Digital Trends Published February 26, 2015 9:11am EST | Updated November 4, 2015 10:11pm EST Facebook Flipboard ...

One of the newest Japanese robots is the Robear, developed by Riken, a Japanese research group. Just like the name implies, Robear is a robot bear. This bear won't steal your picnic basket.

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We hope to commercialise the robot in the not-too distant future," he added. Robear lifts a woman into a wheelchair during a demonstration in Nagoya, Japan. Credit: AFP ...

The Robear, on the other hand, is exactly what it sounds like: a robot bear. It's a heavy-lift robot designed to gently scoop elderly folks from their beds and deposit them into a wheelchair.

Scientists have developed a new experimental nursing care robot, ROBEAR, which is capable of performing tasks such as lifting a patient from a bed into a wheelchair or providing assistance to a ...

The robot also has six-axis torque sensors, cameras, a microphone and 27 degrees of freedom, or axes of motion. At 140 kilograms, the 1.5-meter-tall Robear is 90kg lighter than Riba II, unveiled ...

ROBEAR makes several improvements on its predecessor, RIBA-II. It's much lighter, weighing 140 kilograms to RIBA-II's 230 kilograms, and has a smaller base, making it more compact and manoeuvrable.

Weighing in at 308 pounds, ROBEAR is pretty big for a robot. But it's actually much lighter than its similarly bear-shaped predecessor, RIBA-II, which weighed a whopping 507 pounds (230 kilograms).

Forget the frightening androids of dystopian sci-fi, the future of robots is cute polar bears that can lift elderly people into and out of bed. The "Robear" has a cub-like face with big doey eyes, but ...