Cost Oriented Humanoid Robot Archie

Robotics can be regarded as a typical and representative part of Mechatronic, as a cutting edge technology in this rapidly expanding research field. Hence on the tree of robotic life, humanlike robots play a particularly valuable role. This Paper deals with design of cost oriented teen sized humanoid robot Archie. It describes the mechanical and electrical components and how action commands are transmitted from PC to motion controller which controls each motor in joint via universal serial bus (USB) to Control Area Network (CAN) bus converter. The mechanical structure has the following features: teen sized, light weight, low power consumption, low cost. The teen sized humanoid robot Archie is in development as a collaboration of Vienna University of Technology, University of Manitoba in Canada and National Kaoshiung First University for Science and Technology in Taiwan. Main goal is to develop a cost oriented autonomous humanoid robot to assist human in daily life tasks.