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.
HINA a robot that can make coffee
Hina, a little humanoid robot, is the creation of Mujaki, and is based on Kondo’s KHR-2HV, with modified parts around the joints and especially the head. The principal proposal for this robot is to prepare coffee.
Although the robot does do all the work as shown, it definitely did not do any of it under its own will or on a single try.
Hawk humanoid robot
The Canadian company Dr. Robot introduces a humanoid, autonomous, and wireless robot named Hawk. This unique robot has WiFi, a built-in GPS navigation system, an animated head, as well as a lot of other cameras and sensors that keep the robot functioning.
The robot stands 1.4 meters tall and comes loaded with a number of sensors including vision, sonar, and laser. Hawk resembles a human only in its upper body which consists of a torso complete with two arms with 6 degrees of freedom each, and a movable head with stereo vision. A small touch screen on the robot’s chest allows for a more reliable method for commanding the robot.
Here is a list of what is available with HAWK:
- Dual arms with 6 joints (DOF) + 2DOF gripper, reaching 60cm (2ft), with max lifting weight of 800g (optional 1kg)
- 6DOF animated head with dual 640×480 color cameras
- 3.5 inch color display on chest, playing video (.wmv), audio and displaying images
- Overall height of 1.4m; Dimension: 43cm(L) x 38cm(W) x 140cm(H)
- Navigation and localization providing collision-free point-to-point autonomous navigation
- Vision-landmark base indoor localization (indoor GPS, position/orientation) sensor and the landmarks together provide precise position and direction information covering every inch of the floor
- Auto-docking and recharging station
- Fully wireless networked 802.11g
- OS independent application development tools
- Navigation sensors including 6 sonar and 10 IR range sensors
- Max speed 0.5m/sec.
- Comprehensive circuit protection
- High resolution pan-tilt-zoom (10X) camera
- Max payload of 10kg (optional 40kg) with body weight of 21kg
- Tele-operation and remote monitoring
- Extended operating time. 2 hour nominal operation time for each recharging
- Upgrade options: Laser Scanner; Power and battery systems for 4, 8 hours operation time are available
WowWee JoeBot robot
The WowWee Joebot is an advanced interactive companion for children of all ages. The Joebot is a jack of all trades robot that has many different features packed in to ensure entertainment for people of many different interests. More specifically, Joebot walks, talks and responds to key phrases via special sound sensors.
His personality includes a sense of humor and rhythm; meaning he can beatbox and dance. Users just need to tap out a beat or play some music, and Joebot will respond by repeating any rhythms he just heard. Joebot can be controlled by his hands or by a “RoboSapien” robot’s remote controller.
The robot that can make coffee is the best for me, I will buy one of this because I need more coffeeeeeeee in the morning
how much is the robot that can make coffee?