A number of manufacturers are going to be pushing more robots further into the home and will be fighting for consumer dollars, which means their products are going to get better and cheaper. Robots could become as common as televisions in the coming decade for peoples. After being used to explore Mars, make cars and clear bombs in Iraq, robots are moving into the home, ready to single-mindedly vacuum carpets, mow lawns and act like humans as industry targets the consumer market. Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks.
Because the robots manufactures trends is to build humanoid robots, the answer for – “What is Humanoid Robot?” is:
A humanoid robot or sometime called android, is a robot that resembles human body. In general, humanoid robot is a robot that walks upright and features two arms, two legs and a head.
This article describe some of the robots that can be used on your home.
iCub Humanoid Robot
When parents give birth to a child, it would seem pretty ridiculous to expect that baby to immediately live and function as well as an adult. The experimentation’s with the iCub robot should also lead to significant new breakthroughs in child development, and may set a new paradigm for using humanoids to studying the biological and psychological aspects of human growth and learning.
The project is believed to be the first of its kind in the world and typical experiments with the iCub robot will include activities such as inserting objects of various shapes into the corresponding holes in a box, serializing nested cups and stacking wooden blocks.
iCub learns objects
When iCub is introduced to something important, it will follow the object with its eyes/cameras. When it has arms, iCub reaches to interact with those same important objects. Having a robot grab a ball is also pretty simple. iCub is developing the methods to perform these tasks as part of a larger goal. Toddlers learn language by interacting with their environment, naming things, and then constructing basic phrases under the guidance of adults. iCub is following the same path: look, interact, name, speak. iCub’s parents help by showing which objects are important, giving names, and eventually correcting grammar.
Toyota’s humanoid robot
The Toyota humanoid robot is part of a now multi-year effort by Toyota to create robots that are designed to help humans, aptly called partner robots. Toyota’s most recent humanoid robot prototype stands 130cm tall and weighs 50Kgr. Its legs have 7 degrees of freedom and it can run at an average speed of 7 km/h.
The Toyota researchers had to develop new real-time methods for balance control. These methods make it possible for the robot to remain balanced when an external force such as a push from a human is applied when in motion.
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