Humanoid robot "Roboy" production project, show off the actual machine in March 2013

At the University of Tokyo Information System Engineering LaboratoryHumanoid "Tendon Shiro" reproducing human skeleton and muscleAlthough it is being developed, the humanoid robot "Roboy" which can move like a human being by reproducing the tendon in the same way is being developed in the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Zurich.

This is going to be announced in March 2013, construction projects in a short period of nine months are currently in progress and we are seeking investment by cloud funding for realization.

Roboy
http://www.roboy.org/


Welcome to the AI ​​Lab
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/


Actual ROBOY production site is like this.

ROBOY: Tendon Driven Humanoid Robot - YouTube


Professor Rolf Pfeifer of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


It is being developed on the table Roboy under development


Operation that grips hands slowly


The chest as if pectoralis muscles are on


Given that this complex control is necessary to move the arm, the human body is really well done.


A logo appears in this part.


"Roboy to your friends!"


Fifteen associates and more than 40 technicians and scientists cooperate in the project. In the future Roboy said that the movie "Robot & FrankLike the robot that appeared in Japan (unpublished in Japan), it will become a service robot to help people. As service robots share living space with people, user friendly and safety become more important than anything, so they are trying to be "soft" anyway.

Production started in July 2012, and in March 2013 "Robots on Tour"We are aiming to procure 500 thousand Swiss francs (about 47 million yen) by cloud funding, in order to maintain its development speed in the nine-month project which is scheduled to be announced at an event called" event. "

What you can get with the fund is as follows.

25 francs (about 2400 yen): 1 ticket "Robots on Tour"
50 francs (about 4700 yen): Roboy's Figurine (small statue)
100 francs (approx. 9400 yen): Roboy Figurin, 1 ticket for announcement tour
200 francs (about 19,000 yen): photograph with Roboy, 2 "Robots on Tour" tickets
500 franc (about 47,000 yen): photograph with Roboy, 3 tickets of "Robots on Tour"
1000 francs (about 94,000 yen): 10 tickets for "Robots on Tour" right to meet with the Roboy project team
5000 francs (about 470,000 yen): Roboy can be borrowed on something of the day for one day
20 thousand francs (about 1.88 million yen): Roboy can be borrowed by an expert, an event person for 2 days with a person in charge of explanation
Fifty thousand francs (approx. 4.7 million yen): Necessary consultation

In addition, as a privilege to sign up until December 31, you can get a space to put a logo at the head of Roboy and meet Roboy project team in January 2013.