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THE DESIGN OF THE iCub HUMANOID ROBOT

Alberto Parmiggiani, Marco Maggiali, Lorenzo Natale, Francesco Nori, Alexander Schmitz, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, José Santos-Victor, Francesco Becchi, Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta

Year
2012
Citations
106

Abstract

This article describes the hardware design of the iCub humanoid robot. The iCub is an open-source humanoid robotic platform designed explicitly to support research in embodied cognition. This paper covers the mechanical and electronic design of the first release of the robot. A series upgrades developed for the second version of the robot (iCub2), which are aimed at the improvement of the mechanical and sensing performance, are also described.

Keywords

iCubHumanoid robotComputer scienceHuman–computer interactionRobotEmbodied cognitionSimulationArtificial intelligence

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