Android shows off people-lifting skills
In a public demonstration held in Tokyo on March 28, a human-sized android showed off its weightlifting skills by successfully picking up a 30-kilogram (66-pound) package from a desk and lifting a 66-kilogram (145-pound) humanoid doll out of bed.
University of Tokyo professor Yasuo Kuniyoshi and his team of engineers developed the 155-centimeter (61-inch) tall, 70-kilogram (154-pound) robot last year. A recent software upgrade allows the robot to move more like a human by constantly adjusting the power of its arm movements based on data received from 1800 tactile sensors embedded in its artificial skin.
It is this system of sensor-based control — and not large motors — that gives the robot its strength. “Large motors are not safe for use in household robots,” explains Kuniyoshi. “Only a small amount of power is applied at each of this robot’s joints, but it can successfully move heavy objects by using the tactile sensors to regulate how it lifts and carries things.”
The droid demonstrated different maneuvers for different situations. To lift the 30-kilogram package, the robot used one arm to slowly slide it to the edge of the desktop, where it grabbed the package with its other arm to pick it up. To remove the 66-kilogram dummy from bed, the android slid its arms under the body, lifted it slightly and backed away.
Kuniyoshi says this robot’s ability to lift such heavy objects with ease is unusual, and he hopes further improvements will earn the robot a job in nursing care or in the moving industry.
[Sources: Nikkei Net, Mainichi]
[…] tactile sensors, university of tokyo, yasuo kuniyoshi Posted March 29th 2007 Permalink | Email this | Comments (0)1 […]
[…] Android shows off people-lifting skills: “In a public demonstration held in Tokyo on March 28, a human-sized android showed off its weightlifting skills by successfully picking up a 30-kilogram (66-pound) package from a desk and lifting a 66-kilogram (145-pound) humanoid doll out of bed.” […]
[…] Friday, March 30th, 2007 in Robotics by JB […]
Android shows off people-lifting skills…
In a public demonstration held in Tokyo on March 28, a human-sized android showed off its weightlifting skills by successfully picking up a 30-kilogram (66-pound) package from a desk and lifting a 66-kilogram (145-pound) humanoid doll out of bed.
Unive…
Sorry but.
I want 2 learn more about this, Is it possible
Thanks
sorry i want more info about this,is it possible
Pretty impressive it can lift nearly its own weight. It would make a nice backup alarm clock too.
[…] We’ve already seen androids that can knock you out, but now a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo have pieced together a humanoid robot with more peaceful intentions — or at least that’s what they’re hoping. Weighing in at 154 pounds and measuring just over five feet tall, the apparently unnamed droid can easily lift a 145 person out of bed or cart around heavy packages, which its creators say make it ideally suited for jobs in nursing care or the moving industry. While it’s not clear how the bot feels about that pre-determined career path, we wouldn’t recommend arguing with it if it one day scuffs up your furniture, or it could well put those people-lifting skills to a slightly more destructive use. […]
Person-Lifting Android Replaces Person-Lifting People…
As we slowly evolve into a race of stringy, weak and pale human beings who rarely get up from in front of whatever screen we’re in front of, we’ll need robots to help do the heavy lifting that we used……
[…] Android shows off people-lifting skills [Pink Tentacle] […]
[…] [via Pink Tentacle] […]
[…] Using a load-balancing sensor network instead of brute strength, a new Japanese robot can lift humans (well, human dolls anyway) carefully and safely. Such a robot may reduce injuries to people with disabilities and their caregivers. Of course, what about funding? It’d be highly ironic if the government decided to pay for a robot while rejecting funding human assistants, which is too often the case. Android shows off people-lifting skills ::: Pink Tentacle […]
[…] We’ve already seen androids that can knock you out, but now a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo have pieced together a humanoid robot with more peaceful intentions — or at least that’s what they’re hoping. Weighing in at 154 pounds and measuring just over five feet tall, the apparently unnamed droid can easily lift a 145 person out of bed or cart around heavy packages, which its creators say make it ideally suited for jobs in nursing care or the moving industry. While it’s not clear how the bot feels about that pre-determined career path, we wouldn’t recommend arguing with it if it one day scuffs up your furniture, or it could well put those people-lifting skills to a slightly more destructive use. […]
HRP-2, chotto outdated video, but still impressive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUX9w4L6oR8
[…] Source: Pink Tentacle […]
thats pretty awesome!
Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s homepage is here: http://www.isi.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
It contains somewhat limited info, but maybe you can bury up some keywords.
@olga
This isn’t HRP-2, this model is called the ETL-Humanoid System. Google returns some images if you look it up.
Inkblot Earth has some more info on HRP2:
http://hthth.typepad.com/weblog/2007/03/the_robots_and_.html
[…] Traducido de Android shows off people-lifting skills. […]
Androids sweep Tokyo, lifting people…
In Tokyo on 28 March, a human sized android picked up a 30 kg package from a desk and a 66 kg humanoid doll……
ヒトを抱き上げるアンドロイド、誕生…
自重の10分の1以上は不可能とされていた、ロボットの持ち上げ能力の限界を破ったロ……
[…] Check out this robot that can lift patients in hospital beds. Wow! In a public demonstration held in Tokyo on March 28, a human-sized android showed off its weightlifting skills by successfully picking up a 30-kilogram (66-pound) package from a desk and lifting a 66-kilogram (145-pound) humanoid doll out of bed. […]
[…] Android shows off people-lifting skills [Pink Tentacle] […]
[…] Android shows off people-lifting skills [Pink Tentacle] […]