TELESAR V Avatar Transfers Touch, Vibration, Temperature

The Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Keio University’s Tachi Lab presented their newest telexistence system, the TELESAR V, at SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging Technologies.  The avatar system’s ability to relay tactile sensation has improved since its original reveal in November 2011.  In a world first, a human operator can now distinguish if the robot is handling cloth or paper by touch alone.

Robonaut 2 ( R2 ), The First Humanoid Robot Go to Space

Robonaut 2

Robonaut 2 ( R2 ) is the first humanoid robot in space. Robonaut 2 is developed by collabaration of Nasa and GM. Robonaut target is to help humans perform their jobs on earth or on Space ( ISS - International Space Station ). 

Robonaut 2 delivered to space through Mission STS-133 was launched into space on february 24th, 2011.

Humanoid Robot SILF H2

Robo Cup 2004

Robo Cup 2003

Katsuhisa Ito is a hobbyist who has been creating small robots since 1992. Roughly 10 years later, he got around to building his dream project – his own humanoid – whenever he had the time and money to work on it. Before building SILF H2, Katsuhisa Ito has been creating many small robots, SILF H1 and then SILF H2.

Miraikan, The National Science Museum, The real biped robot Exhibition

Here in Odaiba Miraikan. The National Science Museum, tells us clearly the results of research  in a variety of attractions and the latest scientific knowledge, From  young children to the elderly, anyone who is a popular spot to enjoy. Speaking of the permanent exhibition of this popular event, so The real biped robot by Honda's Asimo, The robotic stage.

Humanoid: Albert Hubo

A robot called Robot Hubo is the creation of professor Jun Ho-Oh. Jun Ho-Oh from South Korea's Institute of Advanced Technology. This robotcan talk, walk and even smile because it have 66 motors, wow this is huge amount of motor for a humanoid. Albert Hubo run on Windows XP Platform with 4 foot 5 inches tall make this robot become a very interesting robot and the way it talk and moving is cool. See the video below, it's cool.

Below is the video from the Development of HUBO (KHR-3)



Great video to learn much about making the humanoid.

iCub: 3.5 year old child humanoid robot

iCub is a project from RobotCub and is a 5 years long project and funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognitive Systems, Interaction & Robotics". The main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 year old child.
iCub has 53 DOF ( Degrees Of Freedom ), has fully articulated hands, head and eyes. This project uses an open systems platform that other researchers are encouraged to utilize, customize, and improve upon.

Hand Design
The Hand design is great. Look good and very compact. With 18 dof, the hand movement become more natural and closed to human hand movement.





Facial Expressions
If we look at the video, there the robot face can make various expressions with changing the mouth and eyebrow. It's look like the mouth and eyebrow made from light,so they can change it with various form by changing the light. Clever way. Great.


Lower Body design
The design for lower body with more dof make the iCub can make more movement and more look natural if used for walking. See the Video below.

Overall, this is great project and produced great humanoid. With this humanoid, people can learn more about robotic design, robotic platform, robotic programming. robotic cognitive, robotic mimic and so on. So, who wanna and interest to this Humanoid? Of course i am lol.

HRP-4C Young Lady

AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) have developed a humanoid robot (a cybernetic human called "HRP-4C") which has the appearance and shape of a human being, can walk and move like one, and interacts with humans using speech recognition and so forth.

Standing 158 cm tall and weighing 43 kg (including the battery), with the joints and dimensions set to average values for young Japanese females, HRP-4C looks very human-like. Its walking motion and general movements were developed by motion-capturing those of humans and then mimicking them by applying the walking control technology developed in the Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP.) Interactions with humans have been enabled through speech recognition and so forth.

HRP-4C was developed as part of the User Centered Robot Open Architecture (UCROA), one of the projects under the AIST Industrial Transformation Research Initiative ("AIST Initiative"), a 3-year industry-academia joint project implemented by AIST since fiscal 2006 with intended applications in the entertainment industry including use at fashion shows.

HRP-4C is expected to be useful in the entertainment industry, for device evaluation for humans working as human simulators, and mechanical products to assist human movements by incorporating the following new functions and features:

(1) Looks like a human being with a height of 158 cm and body weight of 43 kg (including the battery), and the positions of the joints and dimensions are set to the average values for young Japanese females in the "Japanese Body Dimension Database 1997 – 98."

(2) To closely mimic the movements of humans, there are 3 degrees of freedom in the hip, 3 in the neck and 8 in the face.

(3) By adopting the walking control technology developed in HRP and motion-captured human movements for reference, the robot walks and moves very much like a human being.

(4) The speech recognition component of RT middleware, which is installed in the computer in the head section, recognizes human speech and the robot can respond in varisous ways.

Furthermore, HRP-4C inherits the technologies of HRP-2 and utilizes patented technology of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Although current motion patterns (including walking) of HRP-4C are limited, they are quite similar to humans. It is expected to be used in the entertainment industry such as for exhibitions and fashion shows. Since its appearance and shape are human-like, it can be also used as a human simulator to evaluate devices for humans. Furthermore, the whole-body control technology used in this robot might be applied in devices that assist human life (power-assisted suits, etc.).

HRP-4C is expected to pave the way for the early practical application of humanoid robots by utilizing the key characteristic of humanoid robots, namely a human appearance.

ASIMO History

History of Humanoids - Man's dream takes first step forward


The first two-legged walking humanoid represents the fruition of engineerszeal to create an innovative kind of mobility that brings a whole new value to human society in perfect co-existence and harmony. Indeed, mans dream has taken the first but steady step into the future as the robot steps forward.


Following in the steps of Honda motorcycles, cars and power products, Honda has taken up a new challenge in mobility,the development of a two-legged humanoid robot that can walk.

Honda wants to create a partner for people, a new kind of robot that functions in society, that the reason why they build ASIMO.

The main concept behind Honda's robot R&D was to create a more viable mobility that allows robots to help and live in harmony with people.
Research began by envisioning the ideal robot form for use in human society.
The robot would need to be able to maneuver between objects in a room and be able to go up and down stairs. For this reason it had to have two legs, just like a person.
In addition, if two-legged walking technology could be established, the robot would need to be able to walk on uneven ground and be able to function in a wide range of environments.
Although considered extremely difficult at the time, Honda set itself this ambitious goal and developed revolutionary new technology to create a two-legged walking robot.