Humanoid Robotics

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Humanoid Robotics
www.scs.ryerson.ca

• Matt Hristovski

Michael Di Nicola
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Humanoid Robotics

• WTF is Humanoid Robotics?
• Why is it so popular?
• What are Advantages/ Disadvantages?
• Where are we going with it?

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What is it?

• Robots that look like or mimic people
• Like an android?

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History of the Humanoid Robot

• Karel Capek coins the term Robot 1921
• 1930s to 70s theory of humanoid shapes,
  electronics, and movement.
• Not until 1970s until a practical autonomous
  Robot of this type
• Boom in development from 1980 to present

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WABOT-1 (19701973)

• Waseda University
• The first fun-scale anthropomorphic robot
  developed in the world
• Able to communicate in Japanese and measure
  distances and directions to objects using
  external receptors, artificial ears and eyes, and
  an artificial mouth

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WABOT-2 (19801984)

• Waseda University
• Plays keyboard
• Not as versatile, considered specialist
• Able to read sheet music and play it

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Further Development

• 1985 - Hitachis WHL-11 (walking 13 s/step)
• 1986-1991 - Hondas E series
• 1989 - Pacific Northwest Laboratoriess Manny (42
  degrees of freedom)
• Present day Honda, Hitachi, Military intuitions,
  NASA compete with designs

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Why the popularity?

• Looks and feels more Human
• Easier for integration in applied role
• Can perform some tasks better
• Good in science fiction (especially Eastern
  Anime)
• Looks cool

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Advantages

• Performs some tasks better
• Looks cool
• Makes good villains

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Disadvantages

• Incredibly hard to implement
• Increasingly complex with every function
• Terrible at performing tasks suitable for wheels
  (landscape or high speeds)
• Technology (gyros, advanced servo designs)
• Not trustworthy

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ASIMO - Hondas heavy hitter

• 1million a unit
• Can go up stairs
• Play soccer
• Run 6km/h
• Carry 1kg
• 51.8v Lithium-ion
• 30 mins endurance

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HRP-4C

• Sings and Dances
• Androidish/ Gynoid
• Demonstrates human
• Movement/speech

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NASA and General Motors Robonaut 2

• Intended for space
• Designed to work
• side by side with people
• Can carry 15kg
• Wheel chair design
• /mounted platforms

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Wheres the limit?

• Large advancements in both interest and
  technology
• Competitions between large corporations
• Can do many tasks that were once near impossible
  to implement (play soccer?)
• Still a ways off from popular sci-fi films like
  Terminator or I Robot

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6dKPkL2oto0

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Questions?