Miscellaneous

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/ewQy2sBXM80

Humanoid robot chats intelligently with interviewer

Published on Apr 26, 2013


Gay Singaporeans are often criticised for not producing children and contributing to expected decline in population if foreign talent is not imported. All futurologists point to the eventual attainment and surpassing of human intelligence by robots. They will eventually augment our population.
In this video, a humanoid robot is able to comprehend and answer an interviewer with great wit even before we have reached the stage of being able to imbue a robot with human-level intelligence.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/rbkfxihcTlk

Human or humanoid? Tokyo museum hires new "guides"

Published on Jun 24, 2014


The robots meant to anticipate a time when androids are so lifelike that humans may have difficulty distinguishing them. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/_CBnZOkDRvo

WeRobot 2015 Panel 1: “Who’s Johnny? (Anthropomorphizing Robots)”

Published on Apr 29, 2015


“Who’s Johnny?” Anthropomorphic framing in human-robot
interaction, integration, and policy
(http://www.werobot2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Darling_Whos_Johnny_WeRobot_2015.pdf)
Author: Kate Darling
Discussant: Ken Goldberg

As we increasingly create spaces where robotic technology interacts with humans, our tendency to project lifelike qualities onto robots raises questions around use and policy. Based on a human-robot-interaction experiment conducted in our lab, this paper explores the effects of anthropomorphic framing in the introduction of robotic technology. It discusses concerns about anthropomorphism in certain contexts, but argues that there are also cases where encouraging anthropomorphism is desirable. Because people respond to framing, framing could serve as a tool to separate these cases.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/7Vzd2pt-bGg

Cyrohp: the first humanoid robot in Tunisia

Published on May 25, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/kXzRzqyo_W0

Humanoid robot motions inspired by Emotional Locus of Music Signals

Published on May 31, 2015


This video is made by Charlie Hsu
Supervisor: Dr. Stone Cheng
Master Program of Sound and Music Innovative Technologies
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Development of Motion Rendering using Laban Movement Analysis to Humanoid Robots Inspired by Real-Time Emotional Locus of Music Signals
The goal of this study is to explore the possibility of humanoid robots developing motion models inspired by the mechanisms of music emotions locus. In this way, the robot can become new modeling tools to expand the domain of motion rendering for emotions expression by anchoring it to a physical body. Consequently, complete robot control loops can be instantiated and not only algorithms but whole emotional behaviors validated.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/jMt67bK8Z_A

Humanoid robot motions inspired by Emotional Locus of Music Signals-2

Published on Jun 17, 2015


https://youtu.be/-H82nlSNKZo

Humanoid robot motions inspired by Emotional Locus of Music Signals-3

Published on Jul 8, 2015


https://youtu.be/N-aYakxLLRU

Humanoid robot motions inspired by Emotional Locus of Music Signals-4

Published on Sep 2, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/fH9jQXc5xCQ

A spinkick of humanoid robot HAUSER

Published on Feb 15, 2016


https://youtu.be/5dOv6oLzzdw

Published on Feb 21, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/SOoQJcUZtKs

8 Indian humanoid robots and their success stories

Published on Jun 12, 2018


A survey claims that India ranks third in implementing robotic automation.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/yYqy3iKx3Es

HBS-1: A modular child-size 3D printed humanoid

Published on Aug 22, 2018


An affordable, highly articulated, child-size humanoid robot could potentially be used for various purposes, widening the design space of humanoids for further study.

"HBS-1: A Modular Child-Size 3D Printed Humanoid (http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/5/1/1)"

by Lianjun Wu, Miles Larkin, Akshay Potnuru and Yonas Tadesse
Humanoid, Biorobotics and Smart Systems Laboratory (HBS Lab), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson TX 75080, USA
January 13, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/jlybjBoYhZM

Fast whole-body motion control of humanoid robots with inertia constraints

Feb 21, 2020


Video attachement for paper
Grzegorz Ficht and Sven Behnke :
"Fast Whole-Body Motion Control of Humanoid Robots with Inertia Constraints"
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 2020.

We introduce a new, analytical method for generating whole body motions for humanoid robots, which approximate
the desired Composite Rigid Body~(CRB) inertia. Our approach uses a reduced five mass model, where four of the masses are
attributed to the limbs and one is used for the trunk. This compact formulation allows for finding an analytical
solution that combines the kinematics with mass distribution and inertial properties of a humanoid robot.
The positioning of the masses in Cartesian space is then directly used to obtain joint angles with relations based on
simple geometry. Motions are achieved through the time evolution of poses generated through the desired foot positioning
and CRB inertia properties. As a result, we achieve short computation times in the order of tens of microseconds. This makes
the method suited for applications with limited computation resources, or leaving them to be spent on higher-layer tasks
such as model predictive control. The approach is evaluated by performing a dynamic kicking motion with an igus Humanoid Open Platform robot.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/-2PV27j881M

Meet the most human-like robots of all time

Jul 24, 2020


For some reason, we humans seem to be hell bent on making robots that look like us. One thing is for sure though: we’ve been making humanoid robots for a long time, and they’re starting to get really good.

This is Robots Everywhere -- a show where we chronicle the slow but steady takeover of our future robot overlords, and show you how they’re making their way into practically every facet of modern life.

"Robots Everywhere: The promise of humanoid robots (https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robots-everywhere-episode-4)"

by Todd Werkhoven
July 24, 2020

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/uhQWPOy7HWM

Are humanoid robots OP?

Sep 22, 2021

Jordan Harrod (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=21655)

[Airicist2]

Article "Humanoid robots could generate $154 billion in revenue over next 15 years, Goldman Sachs reports (https://interestingengineering.com/culture/humanoid-154-billion-business-in-15-years)"
The investment giant was inspired by Tesla’s Optimus to conduct the report.

by Loukia Papadopoulos (https://www.linkedin.com/in/loukia-papadopoulos-b16544138)
November 5, 2022

[Airicist2]

Article "Ranking the best humanoid robots of 2023 (https://robohub.org/ranking-the-best-humanoid-robots-of-2023)"

by Andra Keay (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=13092)
June 3, 2023

[Airicist2]

Article "Humanoids ready to take first steps (https://www.therobotreport.com/humanoids-ready-to-take-first-steps)"

by Mike Oitzman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoitzman)
July 12, 2023

[Airicist2]

Article "China plans to mass produce humanoids by 2025 (https://www.therobotreport.com/china-plans-to-mass-produce-humanoids-by-2025)"

by Brianna Wessling (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-wessling-55218714b)
November 7, 2023

[Airicist2]

Article "General purpose humanoid robots? Bill Gates is a believer (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/general-purpose-humanoid-robots-bill-gates-is-a-believer)"

by Brian Heater (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianheater)
January 26, 2024

[Airicist2]

https://youtu.be/hJeOL4jSkCI?si=33CrIgbj408GE9ty

Smallest humanoid robot - 141 mm (5.55 in) made by DBS Robotics

Feb 5, 2024


The smallest humanoid robot is 141 mm (5.55 in) and was achieved by members of the DBS Robotics team (China) at the Diocesan Boys’ School (DBS) in Hong Kong SAR, China, on 6 January 2024.

"World’s smallest humanoid robot built by Hong Kong students (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/2/worlds-smallest-humanoid-robot-built-by-hong-kong-students-764314)"

by Sanj Atwal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/satwal)
February 2, 2024

[Airicist2]

Article "Humanoid robots are learning to fall well (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/humanoid-robots-are-learning-to-fall-well)"
Boston Dynamics and Agility are teaching their bipedal robots to brace for the inevitable

by Brian Heater (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianheater)
April 28, 2024