Abstract :
Honda, Sony and Fujitsu are selling the first strolling humanoids. Honda´s 120-cm-high Asimo is the tallest robot to amble admirably - not only on level ground, but up and down stairs and along slopes as well. To meet the challenge more easily, the latest robots scale things down: Fujitstu´s new Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform (HOAP-1) is just 48 cm tall, while Sony´s vaudevillian SDR-4X, the singer and dancer, is 58 cm.
Keywords :
computer evaluation; equipment evaluation; legged locomotion; Fujitstu HOAP-1 robot; Honda Asimo robot; Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform; Sony SDR-4X robot; robot height; singing dancing robot; two-legged locomotion; walking humanoid robots; Humanoid robots; Laser transitions; Legged locomotion; Microcontrollers; Micromotors; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Temperature; Thermoelectricity; Wavelength division multiplexing;
