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Pinky (a mechanical humanoid robot - not related to MIT leg lab M2 bipped robot!!) and the brain (a cart with his electronic hardware and processing units) that pinky pushes, is my view of the future for building humanoid robots based on Artur Arsenio's experience in building robots (both at mechanical, hardware and software levels) at the MIT AILab. I am designing this robot at the AILAB humanoid robotics group. Pinky is a new concept for a humanoid robot that I am trying to develop, and comercialize in the future; Since it will require large computational power, It will possibly have a cart that will contain the brain, and which Pinky will push as he walks, so that the overall system is completely autonomous. |
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Pinky is a humanoid robot that I am designing. The motor selection is already done, together with the robot shape, bearings, and actuator design. I am also using a new type of actuator on this robot, with variable stiffness. | ||
There are some connecting links yet missing, and some parts need yet to be changed. The head still needs some additional work. This is a biped robot that is designed to walk, and ressembles goofy, although several dog features (pluto-like) were added. The robot wasdesigned for human interaction. It has a big belly (which is appelative for humans and good to store electronic hardware), big feet (for a funny kind of walk and good static stability when up), goofy-like face features, big ears actuated each only by one motor to reduce complexity, mouth, four cameras in two eyes (this is another example of application of the M4-M2 flexible robotic heads), an inertial sensor. | |||