ECCEROBOT (Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot), anthropomimetic robot, 7th framework programme of the Europe

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Website - eccerobot.org (http://eccerobot.org)

youtube.com/eccerobot (https://www.youtube.com/eccerobot)

Coordinator - Owen Holland (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?9309)

Contributors:

University of Sussex

Artificial Intelligence Lab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?12095) - University of Zurich

Elektrotehnicki Fakultet - Univerzitet u Beogradu

Robotics and Embedded Systems - Technische Universitat Munchen

The Robot Studio

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https://youtu.be/cI9H4FoA0b4

ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot

Uploaded on Aug 3, 2009


Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world.

ECCE, developed within the EU's 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features.

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https://youtu.be/HAY2tsAP8Gc

ECCE-2 in action

Uploaded on Dec 22, 2011


ECCE-2 moving about using prescripted muscle actions.

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https://youtu.be/yO09FqgvjnU

Anthrob moving

Uploaded on Jan 30, 2012


Anthrob moving about using prescripted muscle actions.