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Book Club wishes all a happy 2013 as new printable robotic parts become more readly available. All one needs to do, is to plug into a socket to interact with Roboy. It could be the key to self motovation as it will have a skeleton similar to a human's and will be operated via special artificial tendons that flex like our own muscles. 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 with crowd funding. As they told Book Club'Financing the project through sponsorship and crowd funding enables us to implement an extremely ambitious project in an academic environment", said Professor Rolf Pfeifer, which is leading the project. The team hope Roboy will become a blueprint for 'service robots' that work alongside humans. Scientists have revealed an ambitious plan to create a humanoid helper robot with artificial muscles - in just nine months. 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. To help the robot move, the team are developing radical artificial 'tendons'. An artist's impression of how Roboy could look. Scientists plan to spend nine months creating him, and hope he could become an automated helper for the sick and elderly

The service of robots become vital to parenting and other indoor activities has not yet become an industry as they are machines that are to become, in a certain extent, able to execute services independently. These services maybe replicated for instant similarity without inconsistency just for the convenience of human beings,' the researchers say. 'Since they share their 'living space' with people, user friendliness and safety are of great importance'. The project will use artificial tendons. 'Thanks to his construction as a tendon-driven robot modeled on human beings ('normal' robots have their motors in their joints).

Roboy moves almost as elegantly as a human,' the team claim. 'Our aging population is making it necessary to keep older people as autonomous as possible for as long as possible, which means caring for aged people is likely to be an important area for the deployment of service robots. 'We can very safely assume that service robots will become part of our environment in the future, as is already the case today for technologies such as smart phones and laptops. Most social-interactions were left up to canine as their sociable acceptance key into their genetic especial the dog which work incredible hard'

The team is already developing parts of the Roboy, such as its skeleton like chest which houses spring-like artificial tendons Work has also begun on Roboy's hands, which will be covered with a soft 'skin' to make it comfortable to the touch 'Creating humanoid robots presents researchers with great challenges,' the researchers say. 'Elements such as quick, smooth movements or robust, flexible yet soft skin are difficult to recreate. 'Fundamental new findings are needed for this purpose. It is precisely through projects like Roboy that innovation is possible.'  Roby is expected to be 'born' in March 2013, when it will be unveiled at the Robots on Tour event in Zurich. The lab is seeking donations to fund the work and is offering to put a logo on the machine for £34,000 ($55,000). As these set to become cheaper in to the future they give manufactures more exact data like automobile industry of today.