Development of human like Robot by AIST
It stands only 158 cm tall and weighs 43 kg (including the battery) and it is so cute. This newly developed humanoid robot by AIST mimics the look of young Japanese females. HRP-4C’s walking motion and movements were developed based on human’s general movement and motion and then mimicking them through use of walking control technology developed in the Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP). Additionally, the speech capability of the HRP-4C has been achieved through speech recognition technology. The HRP-4C has been developed as part of the user Centered Robot Open Architecture (UCROA) under the AIST Industrial Transformation Research Initiative. With the expectation of humanoid robots to be one of the final forms of the next generation robot their application up to now has been limited to only R&D and so on, it has been difficult to develop the next generation robot. The overwhelming obstacles that have hampered the industrialization of such humanoid robots are their lack of commercial values as well as high unit price plus their fragility where one fall may seriously damage the robot. One targeted application for humanoid robot however has been for use in various events and exhibition such as fashion shows where such robots demonstrated capability moving like humans. The UCROA project has been completed n March of 2009 with further aim in improving general motion control technology.
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