Scientists have revealed an ambitious plan to create a humanoid helper robot with artificial muscles - in just nine months. He will have soft skin, skeleton, artificial tendons, and enough intelligence to run household errands.

Engineers at the University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Lab hope that 1.2m tall Roboy, designed to look like a child, will eventually help the sick and elderly by acting as a mechanical helper.

The team has already signed up 15 project partners and over 40 engineers, and hope to fund the project using a combination of commercial partners and crowdfunding.

The team hope Roboy will become a blueprint for 'service robots' that work alongside humans.


'Service robots are machines that are, to a certain extent, able to execute services independently for the convenience of human beings,' the researchers say.

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