Contribution to the Study of Humanoid Robots Anthropomorphism

Rapid development of humanoid robots brings about new shifts of the boundaries of Robotics as a scientific and technological discipline. New technologies of components, sensors, microcomputers as well as new materials, have recently put up the barriers to real time integrated control of some very complex dynamic systems such as humanoid robots are, which already today possess about fifty degrees of freedom and are updated in microseconds. In relation to this, the work raises also some new fundamental questions concerning the necessary anthropomorphism of humanoid robots, and how to achieve sufficiently high degree of anthropomorphism with a reasonable number of degrees of freedom. On the example of humanoid robot, concrete measures are proposed how to achieve the desired degree of anthropomorphism of humanoids.