Sajid Ahmed
Group
C
CS312
Summary of: At Home
With The Androids
There is a movement around the world to develop
humanoid robots. This article
discusses the features of various robots under
development at the time under different
robot scientists.
The robot named (Symbiotic Intelligence Group) SIG, is
developed by Hiroaki
Kitano at Kitano Symbiotic Systems in
have eyesight, hearing, and processor power to follow
instruction form several people in
a crowd. The robot is made out of aluminium,
1.2 meters in height, has a digital camera
and four microphones, it has ERATO-1 Beowulf- class
32-PC cluster. The main purpose
of the robot is “To study intelligence and multimodal
sensory integration in a highdegree-
of-freedom robot; it also will serve as a prototype
for the upper torso of a fullbody
humanoid”1.
The robot named (Dynamic Brain) DB is being developed
by two researchers
named Mitsuo Kawato and Stefan Schaal at
Advanced Telecommunications Research
Institute, outside
The robot is an “Experimental tool to explore issues
of biological motor control, theories
of neuroscience, machine learning, and general-purpose
biomimetic robotics”[1]. It is 1.9
meters in height, 90 kg, has 2 two degree of freedom
cameras, an artificial vestibular
system.
The face robot is being developed by Fumio Hara and
Hiroshi Kobayashi at the
science
The robot is researched for human robot communication.
Yoshihiro Fujita is developing R100 at the NEC
research center. This is a
personal assistant that can recognize faces and
identify commands in few hundred
Japanese words. The frame of the robot is composed of
plastic, it weights 7.9 kg, and is
44 cm long. It has “Three microphones, touch sensor,
ultrasonic sensors, and
environmental sensors” 1.
The purpose of Jack is, “To study "global
dynamics" - the idea that movement in
a humanoid robot doesn't need to be programmed
explicitly from moment to moment” 1.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi is developing the robot at the Electrotechnical lab. The height of the
robot is 1.6 m, weight is
approximately 60 kg, it has Stereovision, CCD video cameras.
The robot also has, “Bin aural auditory microphone
system, position sensors in the
joints” 1.
The Robonaut developed by
Robert Ambrose at the
the purpose of “NASA needs a space- walking robot that
can do repairs on a spaceship
via telerobotic remote
control, as directed from inside by an astronaut” 1. it is 1.9 meters,
182 kg, has stereo cameras, and 150 sensors per
artificial limbs for position, velocity,
temperature, torque, force.
Resource:
At
Home With The Androids. Sep 2000.
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/robosapiens_pr.html>