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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"humanoid robotics"”.
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Mechanical engineering challenges in humanoid robotics
Humanoid robots are artificial constructs designed to emulate the human body in form and function. They are a unique class of robots whose anthropomorphic nature renders them particularly well-suited to interact with humans in a world designed for humans. The present work examines a subset of the …
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Innovative Design and Development of PANDORA: Advancing Humanoid Robotics Through Additive Manufacturing
… design and development of PANDORA, a full-sized humanoid robot that stands 1.9 meters tall and weighs 45 kilograms. Its highly configurable structure was created primarily using Additive Manufacturing(AM) techniques. PANDORA is designed to address the limitations of existing humanoid robots, …
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Biomimetic Bi-Pedal Humanoid: Design, Actuation, and Control Implementation with Focus on Robotic Legs
… past several decades have brought the field of humanoid robotics closer to integration into the everyday lives of humans. Despite these advances, the cost of these systems consistently remains high, thus limiting the environments in which these robots can be deployed. In this thesis, a pair of …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… intelligent assistants and companion and humanoid robotics – the iterative constitution of sex, gender, sexuality, body and human is explored revealing various apparatuses that material-discursively (de)stabilise these binaries. Thinking of gender, the body and the human as dynamic …
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Sampling and Searching Methods for Practical Motion Planning Algorithms
… algorithms to be used in disparate areas such as humanoid robotics, automotive manufacturing, spacecraft navigation, architecture, computational geography, computer graphics, and computational biology. Many of these methods work well on a large set of problems, however, they have weaknesses and …
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A whole-body human-machine interface for dynamic bilateral teleoperation of humanoid robots
Supported by the cumulative results of industrial robotics and legged locomotion research, humanoid robotics research has gained great strides in the past decade. The state-of-the-robot humanoid robots have demonstrated human-level dynamic motion capabilities in simple pre-programmed behaviors, …
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The design, analysis and evaluation of a humanoid robotic head
… acceptable, hence the growing interesting in humanoid robots. In some applications it is important that these robots do not just resemble a human being in appearance, but also move like a human being too, to make them emotionally acceptable – hence the interest in biomimetic humanoid robotics. …
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Deploying Reinforcement Learning in the Real World: A Case Study on Apptronik Apollo
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has gained increasing popularity as an approach to achieving dynamic behaviors on legged robots. However, transferring RL behaviors from simulation to reality is a challenging process: imperfect sensors, simulation models, control architecture, and latency all …
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Developmental model of sensorimotor map acquisition for a humanoid robot
Cognitive developmental robotics unites machine learning and neuroscience with the aim of creating robots which display the robustness and efficiency of human cognition. This document proposes a novel method for acquiring a visuomotor mapping for hand-eye coordination. This model is trained on the …
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Methods and Applications of Controlling Biomimetic Robotic Hands
Vast improvements in robotics and wireless communication have made teleoperated robots significantly more prevalent in industry, defense, and research. To help bridge the gap for these robots in the workplace, there has been a tremendous increase in research toward the development of biomimetic …