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Technological advances in the field of robotics have entered various aspects of human life ranging from automation in the fields of industry, military, entertainment, and in the medical field. Humanoid robot or humanoid robot is a form of technology implementation in the field of robotics that can mimic some human activities to walk and move several body organs like humans. The design of Jaipong Dance Robot based on CM-530 consists of a minimum system that functions as a controller of servo motor movement as a robot actuator and processes the data generated by the gyro sensor as a balance sensor. The design of Jaipong Dance Robot based on CM-530 has been successfully made and can work well, from standing movements, opening 1, opening 2, pencugan 1, pencugan 2, mincid kendor 1, pencugan 3, mincid kendor 2, mincid gancang 1, mincid gancang 2, mincid gancang 3, mincid gancang 4, nibakeun, dan mincid gancang 5, the success rate is 80%. Gyroscope GS-12 sensor can provide the desired balance point, the Dynamixel AX-12A Servo Motor as propulsion which is located at each joint of the jaipong dance robot, the Battery / Power Supply as the power provider. ; Kemajuan teknologi dalam bidang robotika telah memasuki berbagai segi kehidupan manusia mulai dari bidang otomatisasi baik di bidang industri, militer, hiburan maupun dalam bidang medis. Humanoid robot atau robot humanoid merupakan salah satu bentuk implementasi teknologi dalam bidang robotika yang memiliki kemampuan menirukan beberapa kegiatan manusia untuk berjalan dan menggerakan beberapa organ tubuh layaknya manusia. Perancangan Robot Tari Jaipong berbasis CM-530 terdiri dari sistem minimum yang berfungsi sebagai pengontrol pergerakan motor servo sebagai aktuator robot dan mengolah data yang dihasilkan sensor gyro sebagai sensor keseimbangan. Perancangan Robot Tari Jaipong berbasis CM-530 sudah berhasil dibuat dan dapat bekerja dengan baik, dari gerakan berdiri, bukaan 1, bukaan 2, pencugan 1, pencugan 2, mincid kendor 1, pencugan 3, mincid kendor 2, mincid gancang 1, mincid gancang 2, mincid gancang 3, mincid gancang 4, nibakeun, dan mincid gancang 5 tingkat keberhasilan adalah 80%. Sensor Gyroscope GS-12 dapat memberikan titik keseimbangan yang diinginkan, Motor Servo Dynamixel AX-12A sebagai alat penggerak yang mana terletak pada setiap sendi robot tari jaipong, Baterai / Power Supply sebagai pemberi daya.

In the coming decades, humanoid robots will play a rising role in society. The present article discusses their walking control and obstacle avoidance on uneven terrain using enhanced spring-loaded inverted pendulum model (ESLIP). The SLIP model is enhanced by tuning it with an adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) approach. It helps the humanoid robot to reach closer to the obstacles in order to optimize the turning angle to optimize the path length. The desired trajectory, along with the sensory data, is provided to the SLIP model, which creates compatible COM (center of mass) dynamics for stable walking. This output is fed to APSO as input, which adjusts the placement of the foot during interaction with uneven surfaces and obstacles. It provides an optimum turning angle for shunning the obstacles and ensures the shortest path length. Simulation has been carried out in a 3D simulator based on the proposed controller and SLIP controller in uneven terrain.

Beginning with an introduction to the robot Wakamaru, followed by the origins and current definitions of the word "robot," this essay interrogates the differences between sex and gender in humans and humanoids, with a focus on Japanese robots. I compare the gender technologies employed in the all-male Kabuki theatre, which emerged in the early 1600s, and in the all-female Takarazuka Revue, founded in 1913, and elucidate their influence on the attribution and "performance" of robot gender. I argue that human actors and humanoid robots alike simultaneously call attention to the mutable artifice of gendered identities and recuperate the binary construction of gender, reinforcing in the process heteronormative conventions of being in the world. (Asien/GIGA)

"This book provides a forum for the cybernetics field in critical emerging technologies, including research into design, engineering, and technological aspects of cyborg creation and existence alongside humankind for issues in their potential acceptance, participation, policy, governance, and requisite socialization between individualization and corporate, global, networked, mechanized human and humanized machine experiences"--

Was genau ist der Roboter? Welchen Status besitzt er? Ist er nur eine Maschine oder doch mehr? Wie kann ein Roboter überhaupt ?mehr? als eine Maschine sein?Faktum ist, dass es im zweiten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts viele unterschiedliche Roboter gibt, die sich bereits in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren begonnen haben. Der Mensch nimmt die automatischen Maschinen in den zahlreichen Bereichen seines Lebens kaum mehr bewusst wahr. Sie sind praktisch selbstverständlich geworden. Industrie, Militär und Medizin setzen Roboter zur Unterstützung des Menschen schon seit einem halben Jahrhundert ein. Nun aber beginnt der Roboter in seiner Funktion als soziale Maschine die Gesellschaft zu erobern. Humanoide Roboter und Unterhaltungsroboter werden so konzipiert, dass sie mit der Umwelt interagieren können. Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich, wenn ein weiteres, vom Menschen selbst geschaffenes, soziales Wesen in die Gesellschaft integriert wird? Welche ethischen Problematiken sind im Zusammenhang mit der rasanten Entwicklung in der Roboterforschung zu beachten und wie müssen sie auf wissenschaftlicher Basis diskutiert werden? Ist es möglich, eine neue Entität, die interaktiv mit dem Menschen agieren kann und die dem Menschen in Erscheinung und in den Handlungsmöglichkeiten immer ähnlicher wird, in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren, oder stößt der Mensch dabei an die Grenzen seiner Sozialität? ; What is a robot? Which status does it have? Is it a machine or is there more to it than that? How could a robot possibly be more than a machine?The fact is that now, in the second decade of the 21st century, there are many different robots, which already are a part of the society. People don't notice the automatic machines anymore, even though they are present in many aspects of their life. One could say that we take them for granted. Industry, military and medicine have been using robots for half a century now to support human life. But now the robot is beginning to capture society in its role as a social machine. Humanoid robots and entertainment robots are designed to interact with their environment. What would happen, if we integrated a new, man-made social being into our society? Can scientist estimate the consequences? Which ethical questions should be discussed? Is it possible to integrate a new entity into our society, which interacts with humans and does not only look more and more like a human, but also acts like one? Or is our sociality stretched to the limit? ; eingereicht von Birgit Pontasch ; Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers ; Graz, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2012 ; (VLID)222188

Trabajo presentado en el 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), celebrado en Toronto (Canadá) del 15 al 17 de octubre de 2019 ; Current locomotion algorithms in structured (in-door) 3D environments require an accurate localization. The several and diverse sensors typically embedded on legged robots (IMU, coders, vision and/or LIDARS) should make it possible if properly fused. Yet this is a difficult task due to the hetero-geneity of these sensors and the real-time requirement of the control. While previous works were using staggered approaches (odometry at high frequency, sparsely corrected from vision and LIDAR localization), the recent progress in optimal estimation, in particular in visual-inertial localization, is paving the way to a holistic fusion. This paper is a contribution in this direction. We propose to quantify how a visual-inertial navigation system can accurately localize a humanoid robot in a 3D indoor environment tagged with fiducial markers. We introduce a theoretical contribution strengthening the formulation of Forster's IMU pre-integration, a practical contribution to avoid possible ambiguity raised by pose estimation of fiducial markers, and an experimental contribution on a humanoid dataset with ground truth. Our system is able to localize the robot with less than 2 cm errors once the environment is properly mapped. This would naturally extend to additional measurements corresponding to leg odometry (kinematic factors) thanks to the genericity of the proposed pre-integration algebra. ; This work has been supported by the MEMMO European Union project within the H2020 Program under Grant Agreement No. 780684, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities project EB-SLAM (DPI2017-89564-P), by the EU H2020 project GAUSS (DPI2017-89564-P) and by the Spanish State Research Agency through the Maria de Maeztu Seal of Excellence to IRI MDM-2016-0656.

AbstractConsidering the growing acceptance of humanoid robots in the service industry, this study aimed to examine their negative impact on service evaluation, as well as the underlying mechanism of perceived effort and the moderating role of consumer mindset. Three experiments that used different service scenarios revealed that humanoid service robots negatively affected service evaluation compared to human employees, and this effect was mediated by decreased perceived effort. Furthermore, this negative impact was attenuated when consumers had a concrete mindset compared to abstract. This work contributes to both consumer service and robot literature by elaborating on the possible adverse influence of replacing human employees with humanoid service robots. It also offers managerial implications for how and when to adopt a robot service in this machine age.

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine how robotic anthropomorphism and personalized design may affect consumers' reactions to brands after service failure.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted two studies based on cognitive appraisal theory and artificial intelligence device acceptance theory. Study 1 explored the mechanisms by which the type of anthropomorphic design of the service robot (humanoid robot/nonhumanoid robot) influenced revisit intention after service failure through a one-factor between-subjects design based on a restaurant dining scenario. Study 2 was based on a hotel check-in scenario and explored the moderating effect of robot personalization design on the above mechanisms through a 2 (anthropomorphic design: humanoid robot/nonhumanoid robot) × 2 (personalized design: self-name/no name) between-subjects design.FindingsStudy 1 shows that consumers have higher performance expectations for nonhumanoid robots, leading to a higher tolerance for service failure, which in turn generates higher revisit intentions. Study 2 shows that consumers' performance expectations are significantly enhanced after custom naming of humanoid robots, so the serial mediation mechanism for the effect of robot anthropomorphic design on revisit intention does not hold.Originality/valueThis study extends the research of artificial intelligence device acceptance theory in the field of service failure and exploratively proposes an intervention mechanism for the negative effects of the anthropomorphic design of service robots.

Objective: The current status of human–robot interaction (HRI) is reviewed, and key current research challenges for the human factors community are described. Background: Robots have evolved from continuous human-controlled master–slave servomechanisms for handling nuclear waste to a broad range of robots incorporating artificial intelligence for many applications and under human supervisory control. Methods: This mini-review describes HRI developments in four application areas and what are the challenges for human factors research. Results: In addition to a plethora of research papers, evidence of success is manifest in live demonstrations of robot capability under various forms of human control. Conclusions: HRI is a rapidly evolving field. Specialized robots under human teleoperation have proven successful in hazardous environments and medical application, as have specialized telerobots under human supervisory control for space and repetitive industrial tasks. Research in areas of self-driving cars, intimate collaboration with humans in manipulation tasks, human control of humanoid robots for hazardous environments, and social interaction with robots is at initial stages. The efficacy of humanoid general-purpose robots has yet to be proven. Applications: HRI is now applied in almost all robot tasks, including manufacturing, space, aviation, undersea, surgery, rehabilitation, agriculture, education, package fetch and delivery, policing, and military operations.

"This book describes the technologies that enable real-world robots and drones to be effective killers, including an overview of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate to the topic. It also examines social controversies swirling around the design and use of killer robots"--

A 500Kg, self-contained biped robot, named Roboshift, has been conceived and tested to investigate issues associated with the control of industrial scale biped robots. This project represents the first credible attempt to build a heavy weight autonomous biped robot. The recent expansion in humanoid robot development has highlighted advances made in anthropomorphic biped technology. Current research into speech recognition, vision systems, laser topography, artificial intelligence and electroactive polymers will ultimately achieve an Android capable of human like actions and thought processes. Justification for this most demanding and expensive research is based on philanthropic models that suggest these robots will attend to the bedridden, or replace humans in dangerous areas. However, the cost of a biped robot when compared to that of a wheeled or tracked vehicle restricts commercialisation for these applications. As well, the size and working capacity of current humanoid robots is not compatible with the heavy lifting requirements found in such environments. It is proposed that only biped robots of an industrial scale, possessing a capacity much greater than that of a human, will be of commercial value in the future. Typical applications may include the handling of materials in confined or uneven terrain, where a forklift or other commercially available materials handling equipment would be unsuitable. For example, field handling in military, mining or geological environments. Minimal research has been conducted into the realisation of such a device, which presents challenges in terms of the magnitude of dynamic forces produced and of the systems required to control the robot in real-time. Review of relevant literature reveals that little research has been completed in this field. Therefore, operational characteristics for an industrial scale biped robot are defined. The design then details the structure and integration of mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical systems. Roboshift is powered by an internal ...

In the field of robotics, there is a growing awareness of the importance of benchmarking [1], [2]. Benchmarking not only allows the assessment and comparison of the performance of different technologies but also defines and supports the standardization and regulation processes during their introduction to the market. Its importance has been recently emphasized by the adoption of the technology readiness levels (TRLs) in the Horizon 2020 information and communication technologies by the European Union as an important guideline to assess when a technology can shift from one TRL to the other. The objective of this article is to define the basis of a benchmarking scheme for the assessment of bipedal locomotion that could be applied and shared across different research communities. ; European Commission Seventh Framework Program, and COST