"I can walk like you with two legs. I can see and recognize objects with my two camera eyes. (1)________________And most of all, I can play a game of soccer," meet CHARLI, the Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence. the 1.4-meter-tall robot, (made)of shiny black metal and white plastic,can stretch arms, walk ,talk and play soccer .
CHARLI, the nation's first full-sized autonomous walking humanoid robot, was developed over the past year-and-a-half at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory. (2)__________________________
Dennis Hong, who heads RoMeLa, as the lab is known, says that's unheard of in the world of robotics.
"Because you had a very, very small amount of seed money, $20,000, we had to be really creative," says Hong. "How can you (3)________________in such a short period of time with such a small amount of money? So, instead of using the quote, unquote, conventional methods, we had to be innovative and come up with different types of solutions."