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.