Humanoid Robots

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Chapters: Data, Android, Humanoid robot, PINO, Gynoid, ASIMO, Robonaut, Actroid, Xianxingzhe, Geoff Peterson, Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, ICub, Roboty, RS Media, EveR-1, List of ASIMO public appearances, Humanoid Robotics Project, Nao, HUBO, GuRoo, RoboSapien, TOPIO, QRIO, Honda E series, SIGMO, Honda P series, HOAP, FemiSapien, Cog, HRP-4C, Evolta, Robosapien v2, Meinü robot, RobotCub Consortium, Seropi, Surena, Plen, Ibn Sina Robot, George, NASA robots, TOPIO Dio, Choromet, KHR-1, REEM, Flame, IsaacRobot, MAHRU, Archie Humanoid Robot, Land Walker, Albert Hubo, JO-ZERO, Hiro, Kobian, Musa, Coco. Excerpt: A humanoid robot or an anthropomorphic robot is a robot with its overall appearance, based on that of the human body, allowing interaction with made-for-human tools or environments. In general humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs, although some forms of humanoid robots may model only part of the body, for example, from the waist up. Some humanoid robots may also have a 'face', with 'eyes' and 'mouth'. Androids are humanoid robots built to aesthetically resemble a human. Honda ASIMO, a humanoid robot TOPIO, a humanoid robot, played ping pong at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2009.A humanoid robot is an autonomous robot, because it can adapt to changes in its environment or itself and continue to reach its goal. This is the main difference between humanoid and other kinds of robots. In this context, some of the capacities of a humanoid robot may include, among others: Like other mechanical robots, humanoid refer to the following basic components too: Sensing, Actuating and Planning and Control. Since they try to simulate the human structure and behavior and they are autonomous systems, generally humanoid robots are more complex than other kinds of robots. This complexity affects all robotic scales (mechanical, spatial, time, power density, system and computational complexity), but it is more noticeable on power density and system complexity scales. In the first place, most current humanoids aren¿t strong enough even to jump and this happens because the power/weight ratio is not as good as in the human body. The dynamically balancing Dexter can jump, but poorly so far. On the other hand, there are very good algorithms for the several areas of humanoid construction, but it is very difficult to merge all of them into one efficient system (the system complexity is very high). Nowadays, these are the main difficulties that humanoid robots development has to deal with. Humanoid robots are created to imitate some of the same physical a