Title :
Humanoid and its potential applications
Author :
Tanie, Kazuo ; YOKOI, Kazuhito
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Syst. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan had run an R&D project on humanoid robotics. We call it HRP. In the project, platforms for humanoid robotics research were developed at first and contributors of the project carried R&D on the applications of humanoid robots with consideration given to the needs of industries by using the platforms. In this paper, we describe the explored five applications that are suitable to use humanoid robots and expected to open new industry.
Keywords :
mobile robots; technological forecasting; Humanoid Robotics Project; Japan; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; R&D project; Application software; Defense industry; Humanoid robots; Humans; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Legged locomotion; Research and development; Service robots; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7852-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2003.1290200
