This paper presents an overview of a humanoid soccer robot, build out of readily available hardware. The system architecture is covered in detail thereby enabling the reader to build a starter system for entering bipedal, humanoid soccer competitions. The structure of motion-pages of a Bioloid robot is presented. A vision algorithm to detect goal posts, used for SelfLocalisation of the robot, i...

The paper focus on robotic telepresence system build around humanoid robot operated with controller-less Wizard of Oz technique. Proposed solution gives possibility to quick start acting as a operator with short, if any, initial training. Keywords—Robotics, Motion Capture, Wizard of Oz, Humanoid Robots, Human Robot Interaction.

The RoboPatriots are a team of three humanoid robots sponsored by George Mason University. Each robot is built on a Kondo KHR-1HV humanoid base and a customized Gumstix Verdex microcontroller. The two attackers share the same behavior, and the goalie’s is different. At present there is minimal communication between the robots, but this may change by the competition. RoboCup 2009 provides an opp...

Recently, many studies have focused on the development of humanoid biped robot platforms. Some of the well-known humanoid robots are Honda’s humanoid robots, the WABIAN series of robots from Waseda University, Partner, QRIO, H6 and H7, HRP and JOHNNIE. Given that humanoids are complex, expensive and unstable, designers face difficulties in constructing the mechanical body, integrating the hardw...

Recent studies have focused on humanoid robots for improving distant communication. When a user talks with a remote conversation partner through a humanoid robot, the user can see the remote partner’s body motions with physical embodiment but not the partner’s current appearance. The physical embodiment existing in the same room with the user is the main feature of humanoid robots, but the effe...

This paper describes a newly proposed approach towards investigating how social humanoid robots can learn creative conceptualizations through interaction with children in metaphor-guided pretense play using a componential creativity framework. We describe this metaphor-guided pretense play approach and then illustrate it by describing a social robot interaction pretense play scenario between a ...

-We have de veloped a humanoid robot HRP-2P with a biped locomotion controller, stereo vision software and aural human interface to realize cooperative works by a human and a humanoid robot. The robot can find a target object by the vision, and carry it cooperatively with a human by biped locomotion according to the voice commands by the human. A cooperative control is applied to the arms of th...

The research of humanoid robot and intelligent prosthesis is integrated and a new-style humanoid robot named biped robot with heterogeneous legs (BRHL) is proposed to provide an ideal test-bed for intelligent bionic leg (IBL). The research background and concept of BRHL are introduced. The existed problems of common humanoid robot leg are analysed in detail. Based on bionics, the joint structur...

Our research aims at providing a humanoid robot with the ability of observing, learning, and reproducing actions performed by humans in order to acquire new skills. In other words, we want to apply artificial intelligence techniques to automatically recognize a human activity in order to make a humanoid robot able to reproduce it.This system has not only to distinguish between different actions...

A radical new approach is presented to programming human-like levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into a humanoid robot equipped with a verbal-phoneme sound generator. The system shares 3 important characteristics with human-like input data and processing: 1) The raw data and preliminary processing of the raw data are human-like. 2) All the data are subjective, that is related and correlated...