Simroid is a dental patient robot developed as a training tool for aspiring dentists. She can follow spoken instructions, closely monitor a dentist's performance during mock treatments, and react in a human-like way to pain. She was built by Kokoro Company Ltd.
Japanese art bikes. Soundtrack is "Ichiban-boshi Blues" (by Bunta Sugawara and Kinya Aikawa). The video pieces together random scenes from "Dekochari Yarou."
Video of Earth rising and setting over the moon's horizon, taken with the HDTV camera aboard Japan's KAGUYA (SELENE) lunar explorer on November 7, 2007.
U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi is an interactive "mixed reality" humanoid robot, originally developed by NTT DoCoMo, which appears as a computer-animated character when viewed through a special head-mounted display.
This prototype of the Halluc II, a robotic vehicle under development at the Chiba Institute of Technology, has eight wheels and legs and is able to drive or walk over rugged terrain. The researchers hope to put the robot into practical use within the next five years.
When threatened, this type of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus (murasakidako in Japanese), unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The cape easily breaks apart when attacked ? much like a lizard's tail ? and it gets wrapped around the predator's face, allowing the octopus to flee.
Primitive man vs. giant octopus and squid in this stop-motion animation commercial for Nissin Cup Noodle, which aired in Japan in the '90s. Created by animator Kim Blanchette.
This rare video of the Indonesian coelacanth filmed was filmed by a team of Japanese researchers in May-June 2006. This is the second known video of the Indonesian coelacanth in its natural habitat (a German team captured the Indonesian coelacanth on video in 1999).
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