humanoid robo

2. Matt Hristovski Michael Di Nicola
www.scs.ryerson.ca

3. •WTF is Humanoid Robotics?
•Why is it so popular?
•What are Advantages/
Disadvantages?
•Where are we going with it?

4.  Robots that look like or mimic people
 Like an android?

5.  Karel apek coins the term “Robot” –Č
1921
 1930’s to 70’s: theory of humanoid shapes,
electronics, and movement.
 Not until 1970’s until a practical
autonomous Robot of this type
 Boom in development from 1980 to
present

6. • Waseda University
• The first fun-scale
anthropomorphic robot
developed in the world
• Able to communicate in
Japanese and measure
distances and directions
to objects using external
receptors, artificial ears
and eyes, and an artificial
mouth

7.  Waseda University
 Plays keyboard
 Not as versatile,
considered
“specialist”
 Able to read sheet
music and play it

8.  1985 - Hitachi’s WHL-11 (walking 13
s/step)
 1986-1991 - Honda’s E series
 1989 - Pacific Northwest Laboratories’s
Manny (42 degrees of freedom)
 Present day: Honda, Hitachi, Military
intuitions, NASA compete with designs

9.  Looks and feels more “Human”
 Easier for integration in applied role
 Can perform some tasks better
 Good in science fiction (especially
Eastern Anime)
 Looks cool

10.  Performs some tasks better
 Looks cool
 Makes good villains

11.  Incredibly hard to implement
 Increasingly complex with every function
 Terrible at performing tasks suitable for
wheels (landscape or high speeds)
 Technology (gyros, advanced servo
designs)
 Not trustworthy

12.  $1million a unit
 Can go up stairs
 Play soccer
 Run 6km/h
 Carry 1kg
 51.8v Lithium-ion
30 mins endurance

13.  Sings and Dances
 Androidish/ Gynoid
 Demonstrates human
Movement/speech

14.  Intended for space
 Designed to work
side by side with people
 Can carry 15kg
 Wheel chair design
/mounted platforms

15.  Large advancements in both interest and
technology
 Competitions between large
corporations
 Can do many tasks that were once near
impossible to implement (play soccer?)
 Still a ways off from popular sci-fi films
like Terminator or I Robot