Acquisition of An Assistive Humanoid Robot Platform for a Human Centered Robotics Laboratory

该项目收购了一个移动人形机器人平台，作为以人为中心的机器人实验室的核心，旨在帮助广大有需要的人口，基于这样一种信念，即最适合人类的多用途辅助机器形式将是类似人类的。这种新型机器人不像典型的工业应用那样具有高精度、静止、具有传感能力的单任务机器，而是配备了丰富的多模型传感、高水平的灵巧性、安全操作的顺应性和移动性。它被赋予了适合人类环境的社会系统的外观和行为，可以自主地或与人类协作指导执行大量的辅助任务。一个类人机器人激发了各种原创研究。发展类人行为促进了机器人和自动化技术的发展，同时促进了与自然科学的跨学科互动

This project, acquiring a mobile humanoid robotics platform as the centerpiece of a Human-Centered Robotics Lab, aims at assisting a broad population in need, based on the belief that the most suitable form of multi-purpose assistive machine for humans will be human-like. This new kind of robot, not highly accurate, stationary, single task machine with sensing abilities as for typical industrial applications, is richly equipped with multi-model sensing, a high level of dexterity, compliance for safe operation, and mobility. Endowed with the appearance and behavior of a social system appropriate for human environments, it can perform a large number of assistive tasks, autonomously or in collaborative instruction with humans. A humanoid robot instigates a variety of original research. Developing humanoid behavior advances robotics and automation technology while promoting interdisciplinary interaction with natural sciences