Hitachi EMIEW series
Hitachi's EMIEW robots were fast wheeled service humanoids: EMIEW (2005) was 130 cm and 6 km/h, EMIEW2 (2007) shrank to 80 cm, and EMIEW3 (2016) added cloud intelligence and airport trials.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Discontinued
- Category
- service
- First revealed
- March 2005
- Form
- wheeled-base
- Height
- 90 cm
- Weight
- 15 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- 1.67 m/s
- Actuation
- electric wheels and arm servos
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Wheeled service humanoids from 2005 to 2017; EMIEW3 was trialled at Haneda Airport in 2016 and 2017.
What stands out
- Haneda Airport guide trials, 2016 to 2017
Autonomy, observed
Guided passengers at Haneda Airport; can stand up after falling (EMIEW3).
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: simple hands
- Sensors: cameras, microphones, laser range finders
- Compute: cloud-connected remote brain (EMIEW3)
- AI stack: speech recognition and cloud guidance
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Japan built the first humanoids, then stopped shipping them
Japan has 24 humanoids and 12 makers in our record, more than any country except China and the United States. Two of the 24 can be ordered today, and both were first shown in 2009.
Sources
- 01Hitachi EMIEW3 press releaseHitachi · 2016-04-08
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