In Japan, and in some other countries is becoming a popular hobby – learning, build robots. Therefore, the market is constantly appear more new sets of robots. Kyosho Company sells a new version of the humanoid robot Manoi PF01. Read more »
Honda announced the development of the first man-machine controlled by thought, applied to a humanoid robot. This device technology has been developed jointly with the Japanese company Shimadzu based in Tokyo and Research Institute ATR. Read more »
In recent days, in 2009, Dan Mathias, president of the company Futurebots, which is one of the main suppliers of parts for American robotic companies, presented to the public of its robot ATOM-7XP. Read more »
Japanese firm Hitachi introduced a humanoid robot named Emiew, who claimed the company is the most bystroperemeschayuschimsya a robot created to date. Thus the company wants to challenge the robot Asimo (Honda) and Qrio (Sony). Read more »
RoboCup is an “autonomous humanoid robots in the year 2050, winning the human World Cup champion team” set a goal of 1997 is a robotic soccer competition was started. In the first Annual Meeting of the Simulation League, League medium, was only one of three small league, and Humanoid Robot League is now 4 feet, Read more »
The humanoid robot Rh-0 (and its actualization Rh-1) is full size (1.3 m height, 21 DOF and about 50 kg weight) robot. The robot is equipped with two on-board CPUs and CAN bus communication system. Two batteries are also on-board which allows the 30 minutes of autonomy. Read more »
Description:
The Futaba RBT-1 Humanoid Robot Ready to Walk needs only one more component to be complete: You to give the orders. Use the included, Playstation-style controller to execute pre-programmed routines or those you program yourself with the supplied Motion Editor for your Windows PC. The robot’s 20 servo motors, four more than similar humanoid robots, are directed by FASST 2.4GHz radio signals rather than “TV remote” IR technology. The electronics for its flexible 16-channel operation and a rechargeable, high-capacity, 7.4V Lithium Polymer battery, are located in the torso for easy access. LED “eyes” add to the humanoid appearance and a self-righting function makes sure Futaba’s robot never lays down on the job.
Graphical Motion Editor software :
Modify existing motion sequences or create your own with this very user friendly motion editing software. Change servo positions using the text box, increment/decrement arrows or by manipulation the joints in the 3D rendered view.
Overview:
Honda engineering team started to research and development of the biped humanoid robot, representing a unique approach to the Challenge of Mobility, as follow-up to the existing technologies such as the development of two and four wheeled vehicles and product application of general purpose as power products.
The basic concept the Honda engineering team tried to build was the robot should be like in human society and began on the new technology for the home usage. “As a result of continuous research, the design team concluded that the robot had to be capable of performing functions such as moving through furnished rooms and going up and down stairs, and focus on the “biped mobile function” that correspond to the basics of human mobility.
The design team decided that the robot should employ biped mobility technology to make it compatible with most type of terrain including very rough surfaces, setting their sigh high, Honda engineers, thus accumulated innovative technologies for an “autonomous biped robot” which was considered far from realistic that time.
A number of technical challenges have been aimed at one goal, to make a new type of robot that would be used in daily life.Honda will continue to take on the challenge also into the future, to offer a new dimension in mobility by creating a robot that can coexist and cooperate with humans and ultimately benefit society.”
ASIMO is the humanoid robot which is created by Honda Motor at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan. His name in full is “Advanced Step in Innovative MObility”
ASIMO Apearance:
- Height = 130cm
- Weight = 54kg
- Width= 45 cm
- Depth= 37 cm
- Battery= Lithium Ion 51.8 V/ 6 kg 3 hours to fully charge. It located as ASIMO’s backpack
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His Ability:
- Walking speed= 2.7km/hr
- Walking speed while carry thing weight 1kg= 1.6km/hr
- Running speed= 6km/hr
- Cycle Running speed= 5km/hr
- Grasp objects
- Degrees of freedom= 34 (three in the head, seven in each arm, two in each hand, one in the torso, six in each leg)
Technology for his Recognition:
- Moved objects Recognition: ASIMO can detect the moved objects by using the camera in his head. With this ability he can follow a person, or greet a person when they approach.- Postures and gestures Recognition: ASIMO can react to and be directed by the natural movements of human beings. This enables him to react what people is making a gesture infront of him. For example, he can recognize when somebody raise hand to shake hand with him or when somebody waves and he will respond by waving to them accordingly.
- Recognition of Environment: ASIMO can recognize the objects and terrain of his environment for his safety and the human nearby him. Such as, recognizing stairs. And stop walking and then start by avoid hitting humans or other moving objects.
Sounds Distinguishition: ASIMO can identify the source of sounds, and he can distinguish between voices and other sounds. When soneone calls his name, he can respond to, and he also can face to people when being spoken to, Moreover, he can also respond to questions, by nodding his head, a shake of the head.
- Face Recognition: ASIMO can recognize faces. He can recognize individually around 10 different faces. Once they are registered he can address them by name.
Restructuring Plan requires Sony has announced the discontinuation of production of Aibo, the famous robot dog that can monitor your home when you’re not here to speak with a vocabulary of more than 1000 words and even for latest developments, to keep a blog! Launched in 1999, the Aibo adventure stops, lack of profitability, like that of QRIO, the humanoid robot from Sony, which has never been marketed. Read more »
Most motion planning algorithms assume complete knowledge of the geometry of environment. Typically obstacles in the environment are assumed to be static or their motion is known as a function of time. To generate a motion, the algorithm performs a search in the configuration space of the robot, C.. Such a space encapsulates all legal, Cfree , and illegal, Cobs, configurations of the robot and the goal is to find a continuous path in Cfree connecting initial and final configurations. For robots with multiple degrees of freedom, the configuration space is extremely high-dimensional. To allow planning for environments with moving obstacles the configuration space must be further augmented by the dimension of time. Performing a search in such high-dimensional spaces is infeasible and people have in the past resorted to probabilistic and randomized approaches that confine the search space to a subset of all possible configurations. Read more »