iCub
iCub is a humanoid robot from the RobotCub project, which is intended to be an open research platform for cognition . The platform will be freely available after development and the robot software will be developed as open source software. The development of iCub is supported by seven European universities.
The appearance of the iCub is based on a three to four year old child. In its final version, it will have 53 degrees of freedom .
The basic skills of the robot are crawling , general image processing , object recognition and manipulation .
The costs for the iCub are given as around EUR 200,000. Six iCubs will be awarded to projects to which European researchers can apply. The construction and programming of the iCub was filmed in a documentary called Plug & Pray (2010).
literature
- Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon: The iCub Cognitive Humanoid Robot . Springer, Heidelberg 2007 ( robotcub.org [PDF]).
Web links
- Official website
- RobotCub
- iCub. botzeit.de, August 7, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2010 .
- Videos and pictures from the iCub
Individual evidence
- ^ RobotCub Consortium. Retrieved May 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon: The iCub Cognitive Humanoid Robot . Springer, Heidelberg 2007 ( robotcub.org [PDF]).
- ↑ a b Deliverable 9.3. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 1, 2009 ; Retrieved May 29, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Plug & Pray , documentary about the future role of robots in society
