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<title>Humanoid Robots</title>
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<title>Gifu Hand</title>
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        The man-type robot hand, Gifu Hand III, has been developed as an object for a research of grasping and manipulating an object and operating a machine device, and it is small and lightweight. In order to achieve the movements of human fingers to grasp and manipulate an object 
and to operate a machine device, the robot hand is made like human hand both geometrically and functionally. It has five fingers with total of 20 joints and 16 degrees of freedom. 
Employing small servomotors inside of the fingers, it becomes possible to be small and lightweight. Moreover, each joint and each finger is a complete module or a unit so that the maintenance becomes easier.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34914">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 14:22:34.149702+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shadow Dexterous Hand</title>
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 14:28:53.598207+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shadow Biped</title>
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        The need for anthropomorphism in domestic robotics is classically illustrated by the problem of staircases. It is not feasible to alter houses or to remove the staircases. It is possible to design robots with stair-climbing attachments, but these are usually weak spots in the design. Providing a robot with the same locomotive structures as a human will ensure that it can certainly operate in any environment a human can operate in. The development of the robot is facilitated by the extensive research into the anatomy and physiology of the human; it is hoped that eventually the work done by the Shadow Project can have some impact on further research and development in these and related fields, such as prosthetic design.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34916">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 14:35:54.39543+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>robot Alpha</title>
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         The body (without the head) of our robot Alpha has 17 degrees of freedom (four in each leg, three in each arm, and three in the trunk). The joints of the robot are driven by Faulhaber DC-motors of different sizes. The robot's total height is about 155cm. The skeleton of the robot is constructed from carbon composite materials to achieve a low weight of about 30kg. Alpha's head consists of 16 degrees of freedom, which are driven by servo motors. We have 3 DOFs to move the eyes, 3 DOFs to move the neck, 4 DOFs to animate the eye browns and 6 DOFs to animate the mouth.

Using speech recognition, speech synthesis, face localization, speaker localization, facial expressions, and gestures with eyes and arms, Alpha can engage in multimodal conversations with multiple persons.

At RoboCup 2004, Alpha took part in the Humanoid League Free Style competition of and won the third price with a dance performance. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34990">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 15:46:29.62167+00:00</dc:date>
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Fritz is the successor of Alpha. Its body is driven by 16 servo motors: 5 in each leg and 3 in each arm. Its head consists also of 16 DOFs. Fritz' height is about 120 cm and he only weighs about 7 kg.

In the future, we plan to demonstrate Fritz' abilities to act as a guide in a museum. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34991">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 15:48:09.120849+00:00</dc:date>
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         Bioloid of team NimbRo kicking
	

This robot is based on the Bioloid construction kit of Robotis. It has 19DOF. We made it autonomous by adding a Pocket PC and a camera. Now its size is 44cm and its weight is 2,2kg. We use it in a student lab project to play RoboCup soccer<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34993">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 15:51:30.298789+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Toni</title>
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        Toni is driven by 18 servo motors: 6 in each leg and 3 in each arm. Its size is 74 cm and currently it walks at a speed of about 20cm/s. Power is supplied by an onboard battery. The robot is controlled by a Pocket PC with a camera. While the Pocket PC is located in the trunk the camera is positioned in the robot's neck.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34995">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 15:52:41.596147+00:00</dc:date>
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We made the RoboSapien, developed by WowWee for the toy market, autonomous by replacing the head with a Pocket PC. The Pocket PC is equipped with a camera and communicates via infrared to the robot.
At the German Open 2005, we played 4 vs. 4 demonstration games against the Brainstormers Osnabrück.

As NimbRo RS the robot took part in the RoboCup 2004 Humanoid League competition. It came in third in the Technical Challenge where it walked up and down a ramp without falling (balancing challenge).

There is a RoboSapien-API available in embedded Visual C++ for download on our media page.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34996">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-10 15:54:44.358787+00:00</dc:date>
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This small robot is based on the construction kit sold by Kondo (see a video). Its 17 joints are driven by servo motors. We added a Pocket PC with a camera to make it autonomous.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34997">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Honda engineers created ASIMO with 26 Degrees of Freedom that help it walk and perform tasks much like a human. One Degree of Freedom is the ability to move right and left or up and down. These degrees of freedom act much like human joints for optimum movement and flexibility. ASIMO has two Degrees of Freedom on its neck, six on each arm and six on each leg. Lightweight materials, like a magnesium alloy structure, combined with powerful computers in its backpack and 26 servo motors throughout its body help ASIMO walk and move smoothly with ease.
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<dc:date>2006-02-12 09:16:19.014023+00:00</dc:date>
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        KAIST announced January 6, 2005, a new humanoid which they call HUBO.  The project leader is Professor Jun-ho Oh, who has also been named "KAISTian" of the year.  Their humanoid has 41 DOF, stands 1.25m tall (49") and weighs about 55 Kg (121 pounds).  Their android can walk, talk, and understand speech.  This robot walks at a rate of 1.25 km/hr. Clearly Korea is catching up in the world humanoid development race.   This group is located in Daejeon, Korea. Hubo can move his fingers independently, whereas ASIMO cannot. (http://www.androidworld.com)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35209">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Two new humanoids called ARNE and ARNEA were announced August 5, 2003 in Russia. They were built by a St. Petersburg company called New Era and students from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. These humanoids stand 1.23 m (4') tall and weighs 61 Kg (134 lbs). They have 28 DOF.  The project, lead by Alexander Yakovlev of the Robot Technical Sector of New Era, has been running for two years.  <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35210">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Prof. Gordon Wyeth and several of his students have started a project called GuRoo (for Grossly Underfunded Roo) at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia.  GuRoo will have 23 degrees of freedom  and will stand 1.2 m tall. Its projected weight is 30kg. Guroo participated in the recent Robocup 2002 in Japan.  The team has 6 people. (http://www.androidworld.com)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35213">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Firatelloid</title>
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        Azad university of Irak. Firatelloid stands for "first Iranian intelligent adroid." <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35216">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Actroid</title>
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        The Actroid or Actress Robot can speak, blink with her eyes and feature several facial expressions. The face looks similar to computer animated humans like in the Final Fantasy Movie.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35215">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Jupp</title>
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        Jupp is 60cm tall and weighs only 2.3kg. Its 19 DOFs are driven by servo motors. Jupp has strong arms that help it to get up after falling. A special feature is the great flexibility of its body. It can rotate the thigh and tilt the trunk. To make localization on the field easier, Jupp uses a compass.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34992">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Kurt 3D</title>
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        High Speed KURT2  (fast moving autonomous mobile robot) is an autonomous mobile robot that drives with 4.0 m/s (14.4 km/h) in our corridors (reliably controlled!!). We can control these high speed robots with some special real-time algorithms and a tricky robot control architecture which combines the algorithms with the robot hardware.

KURT is a German acronym for experimental robot platform for sewerage inspection. It is the prototype of a wireless autonomous mobile robot.

It is equipped with a Panasonic tough-book (+4.2 kg, 800 MHz pentium 3) and a 3D laser range finder.  For indoor environements the front and rear wheels have no tread pattern to enhance rotating. KURT2 operates for about 4 hours with one battery charge. The core of the robot is a Pentium-III-600 MHz with 384 MB RAM and Real-Time Linux. An embedded 16-Bit CMOS microcontroller is used to control the motor and lower sensors (Phytec. Minimodul C167, inc. flash rom). It's current maximum velocity that we can control with our robot control architecture and the laser range finder. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35207">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-12 08:47:03.044833+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Nao</title>
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        First interactive humanoid robot dedicated to the general public.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3067007">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-04-23 02:06:45.142522+00:00</dc:date>
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