Humanoids

  • Kemp C
  • Fitzpatrick P
  • Hirukawa H
  • et al.
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Abstract

Humanoid robots selectively emulate aspects of human form and behavior. Humanoids come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from complete human-size legged robots to isolated robotic heads with human-like sensing and expression. This chapter highlights significant humanoid platforms and achievements, and discusses some of the underlying goals behind this area of robotics. Humanoids tend to require the integration of many of the methods covered in detail within other chapters of this handbook, so this chapter focuses on distinctive aspects of humanoid robotics with liberal cross-referencing. This chapter examines what motivates researchers to pursue humanoid robotics, and provides a taste of the evolution of this field over time. It summarizes work on legged humanoid locomotion, humanoid manipulation, whole-body activities, and approaches to human–robot communication. It concludes with a brief discussion of factors that may influence the future of humanoid robots.

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Kemp, C. C., Fitzpatrick, P., Hirukawa, H., Yokoi, K., Harada, K., & Matsumoto, Y. (2008). Humanoids. In Springer Handbook of Robotics (pp. 1307–1333). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30301-5_57

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