My team is made of 12 people including myself. I am the "boss", but also one of the researchers that works on the robot. The project started more than 3 years ago and lead to the construction of two humanoid robots, REEM-A and REEM-B.
We work for Pal Technology, a company of the United Arab Emirates located in Abu Dhabi.
Anyway, we are located in Barcelona, Spain. It was necessary, since most of are Spanish (actually, I am Italian). Pal Technology wasn't very happy to keep us thousands of kilometers away, but it was a mandatory condition.
Our office is actually an apartment in the very center of Barcelona. Once, we have been visited by a photographer that is doing a documentary-book about humanoid robots and he told me:"I have been in all the robotic labs of the world: Japan, Korea, France, USA... but I have never seen a laboratory like this!".
Actually, if you watch our video in YouTube or the website, you will notice that we are the only humanoid that shot its videos in front to a fireplace. Sorry, it is the bigger room...
Life.. it ain't easy.
Posted by: michigan orthodontist | February 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM