Site visitors towards the recent IEEE/RSJ Worldwide Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Bay Area had an opportunity to read this cartoonish android from local firm Meka Robotics, and it is quite an eyeful.
The recording below supplies a close-up consider the one-armed humanoid. It's known as the Dreamer robot and it is under development by Luis Sentis and co-workers in the College of Texas at Austin.
The robot operates on Willow Garage's ROS and includes several components, including Meka's S2 Humanoid Mind, which houses significant eyes and emotive ears. Dreamer's peepers are high-resolution FireWire cameras and it is mind can move along seven axes of movement.
The mind was inspired by images of anime women and also the ears were inspired with a puppy, based on Meka co-founder Aaron Edsinger.
Its A2 Compliant Arm also offers seven levels of freedom and pressure-controlled actuators. It may react to an impression or perhaps a push by yielding slightly.
That ability reflects Meka's aspirations to create robots you can use around people. A spinoff from MIT's CSAIL lab, it produces robots and robot parts for college scientists within the U.S. and abroad.
It's interesting to determine this rather Japanese-style humanoid being coded in the U.S. Missing a mouth, It owes a debt to Hello Cat.
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