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Naval Research Laboratory is a robotics company based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
Xitome Design designed and built Octavia's head and arms. Octavia is a mobile, dexterous, and social (MDS) humanoid robot developed by the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) for natural human-robot interaction.
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Milestones
Octavia robot created and developed by NCARAI and MIT's Personal Robotics Group
Press coverage
- OCTAVIA (aka LUCAS) - Robotics Today
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